Honorable Death
...Deus Volt I scream by my brother's side,
a distinct bell rings measuring 39mm wide,
high stepping over the deconstructed rubble,
klashnikov volley is what's giving us trouble,
our advancement thr...
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Categories:
high stepping, brother, character, courage, death,
Form: Rhyme
artic somersaults
...artic somersaults 11-30-23
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artic somersaults
arctic colors bluster
gossamer rainbow ripples ~
northern lights fanfare
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Categories:
high stepping, light, winter,
Form: Haiku
Prix a Formidable Stallion
...a formidable stallion Prix came into the yard and we gasped
His turquoise mane was shaped like peacock feathers
with their kind of spherical designs at the fringes
his coloring rivaled a male peac...
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Categories:
high stepping, animal,
Form: Free verse
In the Valley of Light and Dark
...An upland valley
where sunlight runs upon rippling grasses.
Spirit, dressed in motley camouflage,
pirouettes, scanning dark cliff tops,
its light quickened by the press.
of looming shadows.
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Categories:
high stepping, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Thinking of Dad
...Well, I guess I’m finally that cranky
old Slow Poke: the one who does
25 in a 35—the one who rolls up
his driver’s window, when you pull
alongside with your rock-n-roll
blaring. The one who alw...
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Categories:
high stepping, appreciation, freedom, independence day,
Form: Free verse
Plow Horse Woman
...A plow horse woman without ribbons or accolades
outworking the glittering high stepping
show horse parade.
She'll never get promotion she doesn't play their game,
She just puts in an honest fort...
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Categories:
high stepping, horse, women,
Form: Rhyme
In Old California 29
...Now they do leave and go their distant ways.
Don Jose rides with Arracho to shore
as Segundo brings ladies home with bays.
The destination's hacienda's door.
Sound of iron rims on cobblestone t...
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Categories:
high stepping, angst,
Form: Free verse
The Golden Gate Squirrel Shape
...Years ago after
hitching as a lark
I was dropped off at
The Golden Gate Park
I decided to walk for a
mi...
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Categories:
high stepping, animal, appreciation, funny,
Form: Shape
Horsey-People
...Sorry honey, BettyeJean can't come over and play
with you- she's got a show today
my mother said, patting me on the head
as my father muttered something
barely audible about those
mumble-grumble...
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Categories:
high stepping, animal, humor, humorous, imagery,
Form: Free verse
Motion Sickness
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My people love marching!
Attending rain dancing parades,
doing a bunch of fire-breathing talking
Little drummer boys and girls
playing foot soldier pretend grown up
Just defending the...
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Categories:
high stepping, allusion, culture, leadership, truth,
Form: Elegy
China Moon
...The lions are not called upon to dance,
High-stepping dragons have been shooed away,
On burly drums mallets don’t spryly prance,
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Categories:
high stepping, appreciation, autumn, celebration, light,
Form: Ottava rima
High Kicking Rasberries
...The tale of the high kicking raspberries in two hundred lines of silt and steamed porridge oats.
Keynotes noted kissing keystones keep keystrokes kingly. But kingly is often not associated with ki...
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Categories:
high stepping, baby,
Form: I do not know?
Beau
...Here's one just for the fun of it!
Beau
I saw him at a show,
a handsome stallion named Beau,
horse with a high-stepping prance,
every judge he would please,
winning horse-shows was a bree...
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Categories:
high stepping, children, , cute,
Form: Free verse
Get Up America
...Cal Expo's vibrant colourful crowd jewels as treasures ~
A sea of laughter excitement such anticipation ushering in together
The end of a summer's fading year; this turning of a decades leaving he...
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Categories:
high stepping, angel, baby, jesus, love,
Form: I do not know?
Get Up America
...Cal Expos vibrant colourful crowd; jewels as treasures?!
A sea of laughter and excitement; such anticipation
Ushering in together the end of a summers, fading year....
This turning of a deca...
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Categories:
high stepping, art, baby, cancer, love,
Form: I do not know?
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