Spiritual Horse Poems

("Windhorse", 2023, original encaustic)

Riding a Wind Horse

Every time I sit, really just sit
I'm reminded that this
is enough
to let it go and just settle
without expectation
but alert...

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he rode a horse
mindful of its free spirit
entwining bodies and souls
to ride within fierce winds
in carefree abandon...

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White horse
By Michelle Morris
27/12/2022

You always wanted 
A knight on a white steed
You always hoped that he'd 
Sweep you off your feet

But, then you became wiser
You...

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Awesomely white, amazingly glorious
Bible Revelation Horse* --- victorious…

   Carrying CHRIST from heaven celestial
   Driven for tasks, divinely essential…

   ...

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Two different beings, interwoven as one

With their minds in sync, and movements fluid

The joy they share, and freedom together

Roaming the lands, never bound to anything

Always...

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Retirement from community development,
facilitating cooperative economic justice
in this post-millennial time of climate crisis,
feels like being put out to pasture
with the rest of us toothless and...

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Crazy Horse's Naming Vision
by Michael R. Burch

Earthbound,
and yet I now fly
through these clouds that are aimlessly drifting...
so high
that no sound
echoing by
below where the mountains are...

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Oh my weeping eyes
All those promised ties
You’ll never get calm
But flooded under cries
Words are sacred
Words are like a free bird
Knee in front of me
You’ll always...

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The Wild Horse

He who seeks only control
becomes drunk
on the clouded waters,
drawn from the wells of will.
And his heart,
remains the size of a thimble.
He is the...

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Beyond my consciousness,
  in stark relief

A place beyond reason,
  all spirits unleash

Beyond my awareness,
  I inherit the wind

Each breath I blow inward,
...

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Memories of Megan fall bittersweet
against my lips as I begin to speak
About this one I knew so briefly
but was sent to nurse and care for...

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Stone cold 28 days
Locked in winter's frigid haze
Sleep and warmth all I desire
To hibernate while my minds a mire
Dream of some past summers day
When we...

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4 White Horses called to me
from across their field on that 1 day
They called my mind to come and see
their everyday scene so...overlooked

The gazes were...

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Down where the wisteria's leafed
Blossoms gone but not forgotten
The magnolia buds are poppin'
And clouds cover morn's risin' sun 

The distant dove coos at daybreak
And I've...

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Logic is a steel horse who never brays
And can tell you not of the days
You lie in wait and feel its cry
Of another century that...

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