Horse Farm Poems

a man with legs of a tree

galloped like nonsense set free

with a flip and flop

he skipped over top

a barn full of revelry.
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A rotted old house deep in the South
Was where I learned to shut my mouth
And keep my stockings high and my hems low
And take care...

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To most city slickers I suppose
it’s a little hard for them to tell
the difference between a cowboy
and just a plain farmer. in the dell

Well one...

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Up Early Picking Peaches From His Tree

Eyes golden zenith holds mysteries galore
like a blue streak feeds itself doubly blind
in its wakings an old barn without...

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Havner Farm in the Hamptons was the prettiest one I had seen.
Black and white cows were picture perfect; with photographic faces.
The baby chicks were as...

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Ammonia-ed clumps of damp, dunged straw
forked onto her cold barrow, then rolled outside.
Across the field where her ninety pounds
thrust up the dray atop a mulching...

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Blue skies above,
Green grass below.
Hot springs still,
Cool waters flow.

Wind blows soft,
Trees stand tall.
Clouds drift by,
Warm rains fall.

Corn stalks sway,
Bull frogs croak.
Squirrels take shelter,
Wheat fields soak.

Sun...

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Time and Change                 

There's an old abandoned farmhouse I...

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Soon, I’ll be going to the county fair
Late in August, it makes its return
I’ll be showing my prize-winning mare.

Being an exhibitor, I don’t pay a...

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I belonged to a family of farmers, we had farmed for generations;
And we were true to our land, as blooms loyal to sweet sensations.

I knew...

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Upon the freshly fallen snow
Outside a church a horse and buggy
Waits for the owner to arrive
They are going for a ride
To a farm that has...

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I must run so I might be free...
and I feel free because I run.
Breath draws deep past the lone oak tree,
Just my friend and I,...

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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,...

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A horse was banished to a farm,
Where all were old and grim,
And when he felt he meant no harm,
A cow went up to him.

“T ’was...

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Stallion 

Mighty, was his look, 
rendering tall, as he provokes. 

The attraction that he emanates drawing to its taming, 
which we sought. 

A stallion as...

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