Equus Pallidus
The horse was pale,
paler than the light off the mountain
that reflected back in memories long abandoned
Its mane was long,
longer than the struggle to save what
fortune had vehemently denied me twice
The time was short,
shorter than the flashes of history
that hoofprints trampled in the disappearing snow
The trail was closing,
closing on one last intrepid promise
crying out for
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Categories:
equus, death,
Form: Free verse
Equus Ferrous
Equus ferrous
There is a storm blowing when blue waves crash ashore
white horses with flying mane gallop up, blocking the road.
The stallions become a river, pushing useless cars aside
to drown in their futility.
The town below is a lake, rats escaping the sewers runs
up to the third-floor frightening people with their anger
eat
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Categories:
equus, blue, celebrity, imagination,
Form: Free verse
Equus
Beneath the forelocks shady shroud
and chestnut lashes low,
A gaze to halt the human heart
This creature can bestow.
Apple breathed indifference and
Wistful, fearful grace
Can catapult the senses beyond
This earthly place.
Mankind made him subservient
And service he knows well,
Historically, such willingness has
Grazed the gates of hell.
Natures' magnum opus,
Of evolutions course.
Majestic in his countenance,
Noble, hypnotic Horse.
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Categories:
equus, horse,
Form: Rhyme
Equus Speaks
Not what’s written…
but what’s seen
and felt
—then heard
(Villanova Pennsylvania: February, 2020)
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Categories:
equus, spoken word,
Form: Free verse
The Equus
Choice and a destiny,
something on their mind,
the usual resolution
or a prisoner confined.
Snow, rain or thunder,
shut in, cannot be outside,
trapped and frightened,
or man whipping at their side.
Angelic and innocent,
things not easily forgot,
comfortable living
or their soul and mind left to rot.
Fear and mechanics,
broke their beauty for many years,
if dare resist, only hit harder,
confirming their many fears.
A
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Categories:
equus, animal,
Form: Narrative
Equus Poeticus Variabilis
I’m riding your horse, no giddyap allowed,
simply plunge into the deepest unknown.
Your voice sets the pace, it whispers
into the ears of my ride, sometimes they twitch
sometimes they find water, sometimes
the waterfalls absorb all thought. I lean
over neck, sample horse blood like a vampire,
like a computer’s command mode
taking over my brain, allowing my
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Categories:
equus, allegory, animal, dream, fantasy,
Form: Couplet
Spirit of Equus
Equus -
From birth I felt your
vigorous presence-
In this body, it is a tingle of joy,
Upon which I fully enjoy-
Spirit horse
You have taught me the true voice of the wild
You have showed me the coup of burden
You have let me know it is all a choice-
In your company I rejoice
In your strength- Secure in your power.
From
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Categories:
equus, animals, devotion, love, me,
Form: Free verse
Spirit of Equus
Equus
From birth I felt your
vigorous presence-
In this body, it is a tingle of joy,
Upon which I fully enjoy-
Spirit horse
You have taught me the true voice of the wild
You have showed me the coup of burden
You have let me know it is all a choice-
In your company I rejoice
In your strength- Secure in your power.
From you,
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Categories:
equus, animals, faith, nature, me,
Form: Free verse
The Four Brothers of Equus
Gallops in the shadows,
feared by mortals:
bearing on their collars
the stewards of blitz.
Like thunder from beneath,
their presence, sensed:
beware, I daresay
before facing the eve.
The White Brother comes
with the archer, crowned:
the arrows have dogma,
unfortunately, malign.
Claiming the head
although contrived,
this rider leads
by construing minds.
Still fresh, the stains
on the Red One’s skin;
as his rider murders
random martyrs.
A lake of blood
has now consumed-
the
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Categories:
equus, death, faith, mystery, natural
Form: Free verse