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Colts Poems - Poems about Colts

Premium MemberWhy do I love you, dreamer born from the morning mist that rises to the sky

...Why do I love you, dreamer born from the morning mist that rises to the sky,
Who coils around my chest like blue smoke, like a vine,
Embracing my temples with your gentle touch like a boundless sea...
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Categories: colts, fantasy,
Form: Free verse

I love

...Dimpled dents, not potholes I love,
Fair unfair both, all doles I love.

With most voted horses on sale,
Steeds, stallions, colts and foals I love.

Popular may be peoples’ rule,
Ought such re...
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Categories: colts, love,
Form: Ghazal



Premium MemberThoroughbreds

...The two year old mahogany stallion's nostrils flared out
mist in the cool April morning, his veins prominent, his
sweat frothy on his regal neck and muscular chest.
His exercise rider, a youth him...
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Categories: colts, 7th grade, 8th grade,
Form: Prose

Premium MemberNature's Show

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Oh, pretty little butterfly, flitting all around.
You can flash dance colorfully even with no sound. 
Hummingbird, I see you too. You flap your wings so fast.
You super duper flapper, you are ha...
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Categories: colts, nature,
Form: Lyric

Premium MemberMidwinter Night's Dream

...Midst sullen storm and winter's grip,
Secure and warm I toddies sip.
By fireside glow my thoughts take wing.
While watching snow, I dream of spring.

Spring's swimming pools, azalea shrubs,
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Categories: colts, april, beauty, dream, happiness,
Form: Quatrain



Premium MemberI, Mustang

...I, Mustang, am the stuff of legends
               Roaming the Northwestern badlands 
                Of the United States in small herds.
                I'm poetry...
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Categories: colts, animal, horse, imagery,
Form: Personification

Shijing Or Shi Jing Translations

...The Shijing or Shi Jing or Shih-Ching (“Book of Songs” or “Book of Odes”) is the oldest Chinese poetry collection, with the poems included believed to date from around 1200 BC to 600 BC. According to...
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Categories: colts, bridal shower, engagement, family,
Form: Rhyme

Prairie Fire

...“I don’t splain myself,”
Bill Hickok said
before his Colts went off
A dead man lying
at his feet
—his legend time embossed

(Dreamsleep: January, 2022)...
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Categories: colts, anger,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberHe Will Duplicate

...Held to expectation cast by citizens
Mirror assures return of gilded grins
Ballroom brag pats his back
Dancer has handshakes lubricated
Dignitaries' approval demonstrated

Slide through sludge ...
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Categories: colts, anxiety, boy, business, corruption,
Form: Quintain (English)

Chinese Translations Shijing

...These are modern English translations of Chinese poems of The Shijing or Shi Jing ("Book of Songs" or "Book of Odes")

Shijing Ode #4: “JIU MU”
ancient Chinese rhyming poem (c. 1200-600 BC)
loose...
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Categories: colts, desire, family, girl, home,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberGhostly Poetic Thoughts From the 20th Century Garden State Monmouth Park Summer

...It is time for them to run  

In the Jersey Shore tourist sun  

Continuing their three-year-old campaign  

Feeling the warmth of youthful fame  

Before being sent out to be studs  

And ...
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Categories: colts, animal, beautiful, pride, race,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberThe Awesome Merry Month

...How awesome is the month of May.
They say it’s merry. That’s SO true.
Of springtime’s months, it is the best.
Rare it is to see clouds of grey.
Newborn lambs and cute colts frolic.
I want to pla...
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Categories: colts, may,
Form: Rhyme

Spring

...Violent walls of black drift across cobalt skies
trees twisted and mangled by turbulent wind
rain in sheets of glass from heavens rush
rivers fill with natures eroding water

In the silent after...
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Categories: colts, nature,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberAnimal Farm's Spring Fling - a Nursery Rhyme

...Mother rams with baby lambs
for greener grass are hunting.
Mama cows spy mama sows
with piglets softly grunting.

Creature ma’ams are joined by dams
whose baby colts start snorting!
Calves and...
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Categories: colts, children,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberThe Journey Begins

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The Journey Begins
By: Miracle Man
6/15/2020

Birth was the sunrise of a journey.
I’ve spent time on dirt roads viewing ditches populated by colts foot
before reaching my road of ch...
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Categories: colts, god, journey, life,
Form: Free verse

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