raw unbridled zeal
harnessed strength with beauty
~ great gentle spirit
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For long I worked in varied jobs,
Fending from bosses their dead lobs.
Retired, I find it tough
Getting not a day off
From new boss-- no more like doorknobs
Who demands, better learn
Your daily bread to earn,
Stern, she chases, all my peace robs.
But too late to regret
For having lost the bet,
Me, a harness horse oft called cobs.
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Happenings | 20.08.2025 | humour, husband, horse
This Age of Staggered Man
Needs a timely thought
The Invincible Destiny is hovering over head
Why the youth is being wasted
O'er things which are dead?
The invisible burden over the shoulders
Of this feeble 'hollow man' of Eliot
Is too tremendous to tread
Steadily on the Treacherous Terrain
Would all the thinking go in vain?
The heart of a poet is wrenched
With the drastically devastating domain
Of Mindless Mechanism taking over
Before it blasts the Blessings
Would it be checked and harnessed?
I rode the emotion like a horse
until the shoes fell off one by one
Leaving me silent and alone
A horseless prophet on the raging sands
—desperately trying to harness the wind
(Villanova Pennsylvania: February, 2018)
Harness Racing ( Poem )
Horses pull a two wheeled cart
If it breaks you will depart
Place a bet before it starts
Good wager wins if played smart
Riders ready at the gate
Fans no longer have to wait
Athlete sport with high speed
Is a skill you surely need
At times a horse can fall down
Sad to see that come around
Last turn has crowd in a roar
We wait to hear close end score
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By: Doris Anne Beaulieu
His Lordship built an Ivory fence
to harness all his maiden's love
for his earnest desire to wear her
was as an elegant fitting glove
yet, no part of it did she yearn,
so she stepped upon a rock
and caused him sudden shock
she looked at him; he looked her
she closed her fist then gave him a sock
then she leaned and gave him a shove
for twas not with he,did she cherish the love!
Copyright McCuen 2008
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