Hooves Poems - Poems about Hooves

America’s faded glory the polo field reminds Of years of fleeting greatness and hopes that lived in kind A child walks the ball field where ponies used to tread With memories buried deep below their grandeur — all but dead (The New Room: March, 2024) ...

Continue reading...

Written: December 30, 2023 _________________________________________ Embrace the oxymoron, if you will. Shall I fool you with monsoon wrath? Despite tears of rain, life will prevail. via shattered aspirations. clouds flirt with slate-azure moon sunlight kisses the sea at dawn. wind sighs to trees in plains of lustrous...

Continue reading...

At North Pole stables, liquid spirit flows Down the hatch is where the brandy goes! We bust all the moves And raise our big hooves That's why Rudolph has a glowing red nose! Nov 13, 2022 Fun holiday limerick Sponsor: Tania Kitchin Checked on rhymezone and howmanysyllables...

Continue reading...

The graveyard is brighter than usual this night With snow tinted blue in the full moon’s light He climbs from his grave for his Halloween walk But cloven hoof-prints in the snow make him baulk For right here and now on this All Hallows’ eve Though October snow he can see and believe He lingers aghast on that snow covered floor Where...

Continue reading...

Can I say this is a Friesian, that one a Hereford? I lived so long in a town and can say I have forgotten my recollection as I wander in streets among cars and bikes. And yet am I so much missing beings with four legs, and those hooves that clomp when stomping in the road, ambling from one of those green fields - chewed down...

Continue reading...

hooves beating on the pavement- drums ...

Continue reading...

After a short illness keeping me off Soup, and a 50-year refrain from Prose Poetry, I was inspired by a Thomas Merton talk about Rilke to find the courage for this form again. Shoe Dreams Is there any wonder some of us desire shoes as dreams of possibilities for all the outings to events in any character...

Continue reading...

I taste the spring With tongue so wicked and wry I feel the grass between my toes Hooves so cloven and high If you walk beside me though the meadows I'll assure you only the best times But know that if you walk beside me I'll take until you're dry Oh the times we'll have Dancing through days and night Believe in me and you...

Continue reading...

A stone turned up where no stones turned up where stones turn up, where we dug today... A stone turned up when no stones turned up where stones turn up, when we dug today... Maybe if you saw it with my eyes, and from my cracking heart...Maybe if you held it in my shaking hands, maybe if you saw it through my steaming tears... Maybe if you saw...

Continue reading...

Pony Express Christmas Card Ride You asked about our Christmas here. Do reindeer pull the sleigh to carry loads of gifts and cheer? Hoofed beasts we have, they eat fine hay and in the rain or snow and cold deliver Christmas cards, as gay and warming as the cheer of old. You’ll hear the hoof-beats – not on roof but Main Street paved...

Continue reading...

Thundering hooves tease Pound the distant horizon; Wild mustangs at play. ...

Continue reading...

There is a celestial movement in our blood streams. A bird of hope singing in my rib cage. Choking on Holy Ghost ashes, I carry on this journey that is my life. Onward driven. Upon cloven hooves we ran, up the mountain on our sanctified paths to absolution. Upon elder cross we bled. Shedding dead...

Continue reading...

hear the rush of hooves in the first blush of the day I see a head trip 01.05.17...

Continue reading...

long turbulent nights galloping horses roam the prairies of my mind - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Contest: The Troika ...

Continue reading...

as tambourines pulse... stallions rock with gypsies' whirl firing dance of hooves 12/27/ 2016 John lawless Contest The TROIKA- (Haiku with hooves)...

Continue reading...