Why 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
Thoroughbreds
...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
Nature'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
Midwinter 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
I, 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
He 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
Ghostly 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
The 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
Animal 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
The 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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