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Best Horseman Poems

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Premium Member Halloween's Headless Horseman
One Halloween night when I was five
Rain pelted city streets, we stayed inside

Dad lit the Jack-o-lantern candle
Told us the tale of a famous vandal

One “Headless...

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Categories: horseman, childhood, children, dad, halloween,
Form: Dramatic Verse



You Know
Yes, my dear, you know,
You are my source of joy, rejuvenation, hope
I need your emotion spread onto my life,
I need your heart to sing among...

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Categories: horseman, emotions, friendship, happiness, joy,
Form: Ode
Premium Member They'Re Going Forward
O God of the universes of Creation as a whole
I raise my hands; and open my heart and soul.'
Prostrate I call upon your power, to...

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Categories: horseman, appreciation, assonance, christian, courage,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Headless Horsemen
On the black stallion of death,
Its red crimson eyes pierce through the night,
And the hell's beast breathes its hot brazen breath
Blazing against the darkness's chilling...

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© Cherl Dunn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: horseman, adventure, dark, evil, halloween,
Form: Free verse
What If It's True
How would you change?
If it were all true.
Heaven and Angels..
watching over you?

Is there Paradise in
..the hereafter?
Some just don't..
think things matter.

What if Swarms of angels..
like butterflies.
Came...

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Categories: horseman, god, heaven, spiritual, truth,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member The Hollow
The October night was dark and cold,
As the autumn sun was going down,
When I recalled the legends I had been told,
About this sleepy, little town.

There...

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Categories: horseman, halloween, horror, tribute, perspective,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Get An Education
"The boy's got a broken brain!
- Fix him for me now,
I can't do a thing with him."

     - So I hear...

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Categories: horseman, black african american, education,
Form: Rhyme
War Horse
Brumby.

A strong gale cuts its path across the snow laden mountain tops,
light and tough the timor, thoroughbred mix, leads his mob at a trot.
A day...

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Categories: horseman, horse, world war i,
Form: Ballad
An Act of Birth, Is An Act of Dying
Blackness moving slowly into light!

becoming one existance

The stars gather like flocks of birds.

See the colors mix and mingle

Creating the perfect shades of colors, the

most beautiful...

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Categories: horseman, faith, life, words, beautiful,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Just a Few Clerihews
Warning, if you are under 60 you may not "get" some of these.

Mohammad Ali
taunting with poetry,
his opponents he'd zing
as he danced 'bout the ring.

Graham Kerr...

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Categories: horseman, fun,
Form: Clerihew
Premium Member Paprika
bursting hot bubbling like lava
oh most sacred shade of sacral chakra’s bloom
chrysanthemum petals burst
like fireworks on the fourth of July
and so none can deny the...

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Categories: horseman, allegory, imaginationpower,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Ghostly Encounter
One night about 25 years ago
I was sat in my car at Cothelstone
Dx-ing on my CB radio in the wee hours
when my two dogs started...

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Categories: horseman, fear,
Form: Free verse
Reminiscing With Henry
There's little left now, Lawson, mate, of your home by the hill, 
Except, a guarding sentinel, the chimney stands there still; 
To some it's just...

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Categories: horseman, people, brother, old, childhood,
Form: Ballad
25th October 1854 Part 2
Left And Right

Either side the cannons roar
Took of blood and wanted more
Salvo after salvo into the valley
Point blank range to deter the rally

Water poured over...

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Categories: horseman, epiclight, prayer, light,
Form: Epic
Premium Member Intoxicating Poison
Beauty bows and surrenders at her bare feet,
The gold glitters jealous of her glowing skin,
Her bright eyes light embers of passion within,
   ...

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Categories: horseman, addiction, analogy, death, love,
Form: Sapphic stanza

Book: Reflection on the Important Things