Black Beauty
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Black Beauty a highbred horse was born to kind masters,
as a colt with his mother he ran faster and faster;
he was beautiful and shiny black with a star on his head,
soon, he was so...
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Categories:
dappled grey, horse,
Form: Rhyme
Cornish poem Cornish Shore
...The Cornish shore …
Where golden sand lies next
To dappled grey granite rock,
Where the sea breeze sweeps
And the mussels flock,
Where the rock pools gather
And the small crabs patrol,
Where ...
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Categories:
dappled grey, beach, beauty, environment, holiday,
Form: Rhyme
Cornish Shore
...The Cornish shore …
Where golden sand lies next
To dappled grey granite rock,
Where the sea breeze sweeps
And the mussels flock,
Where the rock pools gather
And the small crabs patrol,
Where ...
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Categories:
dappled grey, beach, education, environment, holiday,
Form: Rhyme
My Date With Charlie
...My Date With Charlie (1984)
My friend , Sue said, "I don't know what to do, cuz my cousin Charlie's in town,
And then I thought of you and kinda thought that you would be a sport and help ole C...
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Categories:
dappled grey, funny, humorous, song,
Form: Lyric
Wolves
...Wolves congregate on nightly prowls;
claiming the rights of kith and kin.
And hail Luna with baying howls;
closing ranks as the wails begin.
A pocked-faced moon beams down with joy
as ...
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Categories:
dappled grey, beauty, howl, imagery, nature,
Form: Quatrain
Apollo and Daphne
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Silver floats the moon and boughs slender sway,
fleeing on her trembling breath
her light feet braves.
Rising of the lea in the dappled grey,
As she wore her verdant robes,
on her vestal f...
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Categories:
dappled grey, deep, desire, love, mythology,
Form: Free verse
Atstan Impressario
...An Angelo Arab, you had immense spirit
dappled grey with a huge leap over fences.
Your stable name was Tom, pedigree name
too much of a mouthful for every day use.
In your stable you were a te...
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Categories:
dappled grey, horse, love, trust,
Form: Ode
The Freckled Face of a Girl
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Dappled grey horses
sweat crusted and weary
hooves drifting dust
lift a day
passing dreary
The harness bells faded
reigned in at the rill
a cool running brook
near the base of our hill
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Categories:
dappled grey, family, first love, heart,
Form: Ballad
Carousel
...Whenever I see a horse decked out in fancy tack
or going round in circles, it always takes me back
to a part of my childhood I remember so well -
riding the carnival’s calliope carousel.
We’d p...
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Categories:
dappled grey, cowboy-western, life, mystery, nostalgia,
Form: Cowboy Poetry
Reading Between the Lines
...PART i
Darkness locks out the Sun
whose reflection, now beaten back by the hollows of the moon.
In a pool of light your face swims as the sound
of shattering stars break, the black
metallic mo...
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Categories:
dappled grey, introspection, lost love, nostalgia,
Form: Free verse