Hoofers Poems | Examples

I know a place where words are bent
Their meaning will never be still
When you arrive and your time is all spent
You will have arrived at Dorchville

With Dorchville flandered the dumpkin kingfisher
In rocoroyal the flashblue fluger
Wasted the ibeniss of landers and hoofers
Ignored the stainbreath and dagcallers whimper

So willness of beurse the tamey from comey
And rolo ignorest may beechoff that vercove
The rosets draw sprigly from diurts so nosplay
And landers and hoofers now quacker and strutter

March field
       snow patched scars
       deer forage
       green stubble flirting
       the ground parsimonious
       its fast food scarcity

Deer raise their heads
       regard my presence, murky
Their eyes clear, deep, almond round
       shaking something in me
       solemnizing freedom

Nature's rated stature
       flecked streamlined beauty
       compact torsos
       triggered taunt launching

A thought that trophy room plundering
       could cut nimble hoofers
       complicated narrative
       the jagged edge of hunting

Deer holding my fixed attention
       that slips from boxed corners
       making space for reconsidering
       to forego what's crushing
       a blend to nomadic tramping
       competing urges

Rippled cues of wishing
       to know life in rhythmic movement
       to singe bits of living
       blurred escape
       like deer in hurdle leaps
       to flee,
       light flickering vanity
       that craves invisible spaces
                                        







Poem revised: April 22, 2021

And so it begins...

    A dazzling display of showmanship
        A very stiff dance competition 
          Observed by a live audience 
   By four judges sitting in the front row

      Meticulous; they don't miss a thing
   The dancing prowess of every performer 
The twirls, the shuffles, the oohs and aahs
              The missteps, the works

         Hoofers take to the dance floor
    One after the other in pursuit of glory
              Each one aiming to please
    To steal the show, to come out on top

               All dance routines ending
                 In thunderous applause
        They all make it hard for the judges
                    To pick a sole winner

              It's a mesmerizing experience...


And So It Begins Poetry Contest
Sponsored by Line Gauthier (Winner: 1st Place)
Date written and posted: 02/08/2019

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