Lost Horse Poems

("Windhorse", 2023, original encaustic)

Wind Talk

Children talk to the wind
A skill, a talent, a desire
Most adults have lost
And forgotten they ever had.

Anyone can talk, but
Maybe what’s...

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I Don’t Know What To Say To Katie Clemens
By Steve Body
Copyright 2009


I don’t know what to say to Katie Clemens.
All the words are jumbled in...

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I ride to the store on horseback and saddle,
I Leave him outside its distasteful to ride indoors,
My horse stays there it waits it needs no...

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   horse feathers!

   'my little pony'  

     ~ all grown up...

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Conceptual paralysis
Hot wired matrix
delusional her hereditary mono-glide
Diet tried  smokers cough
Apocalyptic pop-tart
Disappoint a trend of the needy 
You gave it back
Watching the watcher
You had a...

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Lost …
in the 
dawn
of opportunity

Reluctant … 
every 
message
sublime

Uncertain …
with the
answers
unquestioned

Forever … 
charging 
forward
—behind

(The New Room: October, 2023)...

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Reins lifted in spite, a grimace
Blistering the urge to forgive the way
Black changed to gray right before your eyes,
Easing away the pain like, in fading,...

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PythonPotamus, "Abaddon" Quetzacoatliciously rises from the pit. 
Helliopolis' ruins remains; "in the thick of it."
Ra, "Familiars the breeze" a God-imposter, sedicious, piece of Set. 
Set...

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Busses, cars, and airplanes, time flies so fast
minutes accelerates through the dial, small things lost to the past.
The world’s fragile treasures beg to be seen...

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But the sun beating down was taking its toll
Red started to fade though he'd given his soul
they reached the exchange both were ragged and sore
Tex...

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I am all over Wiltshire
High up on the hills
I am immune from fire
To tourists I give thrills

You can see me from afar
By plane, on foot...

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Man, seldom a straightforward animal, 
Long lost in the deserts of weariness,
Wants to flee from a life of denial, 
Wallows no less still in piles...

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We are like two planes bound to collide
tinting the sky with hues of blood-red desire
our embers, a tapestry woven with grace
from threads of doleful devotion

Words...

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Showing your "power"
standing upon others
coldness on foot
shards of glass and arrogance
reflections so grey 
color lost
fake dull greens
care for the environment
a Trojan horse   
"Enter...

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The magic hour

The day is ending, and time is one hour back but 
the day still serves early twilight
From the window of a tourist resort,...

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