Time Horse Poems

("Anime", 2019, original encaustic)

Behold, A Pale Horse 

Death comes quietly
Inexorably in the light
It has always been like that
And always will
Waiting with more patience than can...

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And there ...
I saw the unicorn, 
The sunlight beamed
Off her golden horn

She just stood there
By the edge of the brook,
Never startled ...
As I stopped to...

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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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That be cold sun rose yonder, our heads be hot, I'd declare,
I'll get Whitey my critter, worked all night, best she nicker.
'Bout saddlin' her real...

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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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"Don't let anyone deceive you for that [day of the Lord] will not come unless the
man of lawlessness [the rider on the white horse] is...

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“Dammit,” he cried
“I’ll never get you clean” 
For what he had seen 
Was nothing but mean

“Come on over, now, here’s your feed” 
As the pony...

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Maybe we should do a rethink about spending to save,
If we are using all our credit on a roll of the dice,
And instead keep that...

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Next time I will be stone.
I shall become the strongest wall of rock..
I will be born solid and hard.
This next time I will be tough...

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("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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In the dark of night
I seen a light
Was it a Star from a far?
Or a Planet?
Or another sun?
And as I learned,
Could it be
When time begun?
You...

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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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There’s many a tale that spreads across the night
when the sun o’er the plains yields to campfire light. 
Tales about cowboys, who once roamed the...

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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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