Equine
...He melts my heart
as l watch his Dressage
his graceful presence true
of intelligence, faithful, beautiful
He was once a warhorse
of medieval times
but now a gentle giant
where personality s...
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Categories:
dressage, animal, beautiful, courage,
Form: Rhyme
nirvana all the way around
...Their gracefulness during dressage
Brings us bliss like we're on a hajj
We know to repay
Horseplay on display
With a sweet spa pedi massage...
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Categories:
dressage, horse,
Form: Limerick
Super Soupers
...Super Souper 9-16-24
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Super Souper
Super Soupers wrangle rhymes
into verses quite sublime
Taming wild-eyed metaphors
into iambic strophes gal...
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Categories:
dressage, poetry, poets,
Form: Couplet
Sea Hiku X 2
...SEA
dressage in slow motion-
sea horses
ride the ebbing tide
whipped by the tide
white horses ride-
then die on the strand...
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Categories:
dressage, sea,
Form: Haiku
Monarch
...
"Monarch"
new wings spread
blue morph
born to be king
for a short while
the butterfly reigns
cameo dressage
part of the branch
grounded majesty
in a gilded cag...
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Categories:
dressage, change, imagery, muse, symbolism,
Form: Free verse
An Ebony Celebrity
...A handsome ebony stallion, Frederick the Great,
honors the Prussian monarch of the same name.
He never has trouble finding a mare for a date,
this Friesian stud of notable celebrity and ac...
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Categories:
dressage, beautiful, horse,
Form: Rhyme
My Dressage Experience
...Learning dressage can be difficult,
Especially when training with different horses.
Eddie ‘Whoopee Cushion’ maintains speed all the way through,
While Angus ‘Cow Horse’ moos.
Scooby ‘Snail’ fa...
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Categories:
dressage, animal, horse, sports,
Form: Free verse
Pony Irony
...Straddling Town boundary, brick spawl
Hill vista stabled horse sanctity five acres
Dishes decades of rural dream enthrall
Imprisons middle aged, once a girl elated
Saddle, bridle, hay bales, bl...
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Categories:
dressage, age, environment, farm, home,
Form: Rhyme
Six-Word Couplet Series Encore
...Racer
Flat out speed
Hot blooded steed
Pacer
Speed walking race
With unmatched grace
Steeplechaser
Fearless full fledge
Ace over hedge
Dressage
Arabesques on display
The eques...
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Categories:
dressage, horse,
Form: Couplet
Seahorses On See-Saws Sashay
...Seahorses on see-saws prance, sashay and dance
gliding majestically under the sea.
No clip nor clop for this aquatic steed
for no legs adorn its knight-in-armour body.
Instead its fins kee...
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Categories:
dressage, animal, fish, nature, ocean,
Form: Free verse
Dressage
...DRESSAGE
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I bend to your hands
Of feathery soft light
I dance and prance
To both our delight
Your hands and legs
Guide me guide
Ride me ride
Two together
Entwined
With pride
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Categories:
dressage, horse,
Form: Rhyme
Anne Dunham
...Oldest athlete, turned 68, a healthy stalwart,
She was thought to have MS, but it's dystonia,
Atlanta 1996, and in the individual did her part,
To win the bronze, but also won gold acre,
In th...
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Categories:
dressage, animal, horse, sports, strength,
Form: Sonnet
Olympic Equestrians
...Nothing is so beautiful
as equestrian events,
watching graceful horses,
while droppings add their scents.
For true equine lovers,
there is such a thrill
in the coordination of
a well-perform...
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Categories:
dressage, games, horse,
Form: Rhyme
Sophie Christiansen
...Sophie gained a MSci degree from London University,
In 2011, when she was 23, and was born prematurely,
So her Cerebral Palsy meant that post operation rehab,
Came thru the Riding for the Disabled...
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Categories:
dressage, body, health, london, sports,
Form: Heroic Couplet
Lee Pearson
...Lee Pearson is a para-equestrian athlete,
Because in horse jumping he does compete,
And has arlthrogryposis multiplex congenita,
Which he was born with in 1974, not bitter.
He’s a ten-times p...
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Categories:
dressage, animal, body, courage, health,
Form: Heroic Couplet
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