Best Hooves Poems

Written: December 30, 2023
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Embrace the oxymoron, if you will.
Shall I fool you with monsoon wrath?
Despite tears of rain, life will prevail.
via shattered aspirations.
clouds flirt with slate-azure moon
sunlight kisses the...

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The thundered hooves of horses wild
In faded thoughts still softly sound
From distant thunder Mustang style
The thundered hooves of horses wild
Still echo back from times beguiled
Of olden days and men renown
The thundered hooves of horses wild
In faded thoughts still softly sound.



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as tambourines pulse...
 
    stallions rock with gypsies' whirl

        firing dance of  hooves






12/27/ 2016    John  lawless Contest
The TROIKA- (Haiku with hooves)...

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Thundering hooves tease
Pound the distant horizon;
Wild mustangs at play.


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A stone turned up
where no stones turned up
where stones turn up,
where we dug today...

A stone turned up
when no stones turned up
where stones turn up,
when we dug today...

Maybe if you saw it with
my eyes, and from my 
cracking heart...Maybe if you
held it in my shaking hands,
maybe...

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hear the rush of hooves
in the first blush of the day
I see a head trip

01.05.17...

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Pony Express Christmas Card Ride

You asked about our Christmas here.
Do reindeer pull the sleigh 
to carry loads of gifts and cheer?

Hoofed beasts we have, they eat fine hay
and in the rain or snow and cold
deliver Christmas cards, as gay

and warming as the cheer of old.
You’ll...

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long turbulent nights

   galloping horses roam the

        prairies of my mind

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There is a celestial movement in our blood streams. A bird of hope singing in my rib cage. Choking on Holy Ghost ashes, I carry on this journey that is my life. Onward driven. Upon cloven hooves we ran, up the mountain on our sanctified...

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History’s horse-hooves are clattering by,
Cobblestones ring with sound, 
Dinning our frightened ears
Over the future’s ground,
Signaling coming years.  
But hooves trample you and me.
Damned history....

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hooves beating
on the pavement-
drums
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At North Pole stables, liquid spirit flows
Down the hatch is where the brandy goes! 
We bust all the moves
And raise our big hooves
That's why Rudolph has a glowing red nose!

Nov 13, 2022
Fun holiday limerick
Sponsor: Tania Kitchin


Checked on rhymezone and howmanysyllables...

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The graveyard is brighter than usual this night
With snow tinted blue in the full moon’s light
He climbs from his grave for his Halloween walk
But cloven hoof-prints in the snow make him baulk

For right here and now on this All Hallows’ eve
Though October snow he can...

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After a short illness keeping me off Soup, and a 50-year refrain from Prose Poetry, I was inspired by a Thomas Merton talk about Rilke to find the courage for this form again.

Shoe Dreams

Is there any wonder some of us desire shoes as dreams of...

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I taste the spring
With tongue so wicked and wry
I feel the grass between my toes
Hooves so cloven and high
If you walk beside me though the meadows
I'll assure you only the best times
But know that if you walk beside me
I'll take until you're dry
Oh the times...

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