Best Racehorse Poems

Long legged, refined;
               An explosive turn of foot
               Racing to survive.

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In equine racing they always say,
You hope to win when you make your play;
Off course as you know,it's the horses that show,
They're the only ones to make their hay.
With no help from the divine my guess could be as good as thine,
For doesn't our quadruped...

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Written after re-reading the fable ‘the tortoise and the hare’ … I thought I would give the story a little updating!


A racehorse and an old donkey challenged one another to a race
‘I’m sure to win’ said the racehorse with a smirk upon her face

She said...

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R… apes my wallet frequently.
A… prolonged waste of time.
C… arelessly treds over my happiness.
E… conomic failure, no question.
H… opefully going to break even some day.
O… h my god, look at these vet bills!
R… est? What’s that?
S… hoot, beat by a nose again.
E…ating dirt isn’t only...

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That horse ain't wild
Though he's as wild as they come
Defying stern expectation
Deciding when to run

Now we will choose for him
His spirit broken in due course
Though there still is something wild
About that racehorse...

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"Elderly, check. Arthritis in both knees, check. Shocks world in doubt, check." ---quote by poet.


      Counted out before the marathon began.
     Far from first, second, or third in the race,
    Yet kept pushing...

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Should we have walked six miles instead of two?
What else were I to do?
Bowed down and raging
Fuming in our cages
I left it all to you

You wield your power
and I could only cower
to the fear of losing
With you I'm always losing
How awful the decline
Fanfare to jeers
Running...

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