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Best Stick Horse Poems

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Premium Member Luck, Rides a Stick Horse
Luck Rides a Stick Horse
By Tom Wright

If good luck is what you're counting on
A stick horse will always be your steed.
Choose God and a job...

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Categories: stick horse, hope, life, loss, social,
Form: Lyric



A Stick Horse
My grandson is running around the cul-de-sac
Riding bareback
On horseback
Yelling giddy up Jack.
Whoa! Jack.
Grandma do you have my backpack?
Can we please have a snack?
A horse head...

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Categories: stick horse, adventure, appreciation, boy, childhood,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Death Rides a Stick Horse
Death Rides a Stick Horse
Written: by Tom Wright
6/12/2018

Protected by the haven of calm, some gloss of life yet remains, 
But much has scampered to a...

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Categories: stick horse, death,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Luck Rides a Stick Horse
Luck Rides A Stick Horse
Written: by Tom Wright
7/8/2006

If luck is what you’re counting on
A stick horse will always be your steed.
Choose God and a job...

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Categories: stick horse, games, god, life,
Form: Lyric
Little Boys
Mud puddles were made for little boys on warm summer days,
In search of tadpoles and frogs and other delightful items of play.
Grass snakes are fine...

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Categories: stick horse, adventure, childhood, family, love,
Form: I do not know?



Premium Member Thoroughbred
No thoroughbred here,
When we lose our will to fight
We ride a stick horse.
...

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Categories: stick horse,
Form: Haiku
Wild Stickhorse Remuda
Ponytails and blue jeans 
Sat at Papaw's knee, 
Watching as he whittled 
On old branches from a tree. 
    And while he...

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Categories: stick horse, childhood, cowboy-western, family, nostalgia,
Form: Cowboy Poetry
Premium Member American Traitor
To manipulate laws to disqualify voters,
Vote multiple times, or give dead living voice,
These are acts of a traitor! Man’s born with a choice.
Should political virtue...

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Categories: stick horse, abuse, betrayal, patriotic, religious,
Form: Rhyme
Giddy Up
When I was only four years old
I'd ride my mama's broom
I'd chase those villains everywhere
Well, until she swept the room

She kept it in the kitchen...

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© Larry Belt  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: stick horse, funny, nostalgiahorse,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Dreamland
There is a place where oft I travel,
And in child dreams do things of yore.
Like running barefoot on the gravel,
Or riding my stick-horse to the...

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© Tom Wright  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: stick horse, dream,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Good Luck
H
Good Luck
By: Tom
8/28/2019
Haiku

Waiting on good luck 
Is like riding a stick horse.
Both waste precious time.
...

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Categories: stick horse, how i feel, life,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member Believing In Luck
Believing In Luck
(is Like Riding A Stick Horse)
A Sequel
Written: by Miracle Man
3/17/2020

I’ve never been one who was a luck supporter,
but believe that both good and...

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Categories: stick horse, god, life,
Form: Lyric
But a Whisper Part 2
But a Whisper                      ...

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Categories: stick horse, angel, child, happy, heartbroken,
Form: Free verse
A Sandwich and a Kiss
He was elected sheriff that year
A young man but mature for his age
Five years old may not seem much these days
But back then he was...

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Categories: stick horse, childhood, , western,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Never Give Up
Never Give Up
Haiku: by Tom 
December 10 2020

Tough old birds don’t quit;
when we lose our will to fight,
We ride a stick horse.
...

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Categories: stick horse, how i feel,
Form: Haiku

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