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Best Equus Poems

Below are the all-time best Equus poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of equus poems written by PoetrySoup members


Equus
Beneath the forelocks shady shroud
 and chestnut lashes low,
A gaze to halt the human heart
This creature can bestow.
Apple breathed indifference and 
Wistful, fearful grace
Can catapult...

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Categories: equus, horse,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Equus Poeticus Variabilis
I’m riding your horse, no giddyap allowed,
simply plunge into the deepest unknown.

Your voice sets the pace, it whispers 
into the ears of my ride, sometimes...

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Categories: equus, allegory, animal, dream, fantasy,
Form: Couplet
Spirit of Equus
Equus -
From birth I felt your
vigorous presence-
In this body, it is a tingle of joy,
Upon which I fully enjoy-

Spirit horse
You have taught me the true...

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© Amy Green  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: equus, animals, devotion, love, me,
Form: Free verse
The Four Brothers of Equus
Gallops in the shadows,
feared by mortals:
bearing on their collars
the stewards of blitz.
Like thunder from beneath,
their presence, sensed:
beware, I daresay
before facing the eve.

The White Brother comes
with...

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Categories: equus, death, faith, mystery, natural
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Without You
that first breath after hearing Beethoven
inhaling life from him
John’s many gifts to me

feeling his tears at La Boheme
hearing him laugh at Carmen
sharing the shock of...

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Categories: equus, husband,
Form: Free verse



Beauty
beautiful equus -
    refined, graceful, free spirit
    and favourite of kings...

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Categories: equus, animal, horse,
Form: Haiku
Fleeing Capture
Equus Caballus
   Flying hooves cry for freedom
      Why are you pursued?


*Inspired by wild horse roundups.
  A. Green...

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© Amy Green  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: equus, animals
Form: Haiku
Premium Member Dear Budding Poet:
Dear Budding Poet:
Modern poetry is a sandbox for all who would build, smash, trash, shake up, and take up the art. Poetry is not writ,...

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Categories: equus, poems, poetry, poets, words,
Form: Prose
Robotic Lies

Bot for the sake of liberty sanctum sanctity,
none would ever have perceived
	the nano ... nano ... nano 
repeated viral injected lies 
worming thru infected web...

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Categories: equus, corruption, political, science, truth,
Form: Free verse
License To Breathe

Publican politicians talk in half-price right angles
Dodge City liberty
being smoking barrel bargain sold 
at a chill, 
Colt-45 degrees
AC (alcoholic crops) bootleggers selling 
Prohibition license to...

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Categories: equus, imagery, metaphor, perspective, truth,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Donkey and Goat
Donkey and Goat

Equus asinus She whispered
whispered with the warmest sigh
from the field that blew softly
with the North wind, by the by

Six years and not one...

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Categories: equus, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Right Hand Man

Coulda been
the Hand of the Lying King,
if I didn’t tell the truth so much

Coulda been
Caesar’s right hand man,
if I was kill willing 
to have a...

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Categories: equus, allusion, history, power, truth,
Form: Narrative
Mass Silent Sound Cloud Plunk From Das Bad Ass Monk Two
predicated on verb hose noun sense 
   with brain matter makes me astute
and this union with the trappings 
   of virtual...

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Categories: equus, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Epic
Premium Member Equestrian First-Class
To become an equestrian first-class
  Jerry had to learn to ride on the grass
    He took off the saddle
  ...

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Categories: equus, horse, humor, success,
Form: Limerick
Midsummer Coal Night
O Kentucky, my love
Why doth thou wear such a sad Equus frown — 
Hast not thine squire Apprentice
	swept thy Medicaid stalls clean?
Though stable be thy...

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Categories: equus, dark, heart, love hurts,
Form: Romanticism

Book: Shattered Sighs