Blue blood horseshoe crab
A million crabs milked
each year for humankind
to detect vaccine contamination.
blue, ghastly, gruesome, repugnant!
Categories:
horseshoe, blue, health, nature,
Form: Verse
When western winds in my ear sing
The memories of rivers bring
A horseman
Cut of rough land and bronze timber
Surefooted walk, lean and limber
Horsepower
I fumbled where he was at ease
Our hands would touch in flirty tease
Of horseplay
Through golden grass, me and my guy
Galloping free to chase the sky
On horseback
Now, in my city life, I keep
Over my bed, to grace my sleep
One horseshoe.
5/09/20
For "Compounding the Verse" contest
Sponsor: Joseph May
Categories:
horseshoe, lost love, remember, river,
Form: Verse
HORSESHOE HORSESHOE
HORSESHOE HORSESHOE
HORSESHOE HORSESHOE
HORSESHOE HORSESHOE
HORSESHOE HORSESHOE
HORSESHOE HORSESHOE
HORSESHOE HORSESHOE
HORSESHOE HORSESHOE
HORSESHOE HORSESHOE
HORSESHOE HORSESHOE
HORSESHOE HORSESHOE
HORSESHOE HORSESHOE
HORSESHOE HORSESHOE
HORSESHOE HORSESHOE
HORSESHOEHORSESHOEHORSE
HORSESHOEHORSESHOEHORSE
HORSESHOEHORSESHOEHORSE
ORSESHOEHORSESHOEHORE
Categories:
horseshoe, creation,
Form: Shape
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My street, horseshoe-shaped lucky me!
Once worst place, anyone could live,
Nigh on everything was adlib.
Street's arms pointed north, as should be,
the right way when hung on a wall.
Keeping luck sake so it can't fall.
Happy days, children, one, two, three.
Kirk, Kirsty, a year apart, fun!
Then some years past Naomi come.
The luckiest we still agree,
three times near lost to accidents.
Like yesterday those incidents.
Naomi won't forget, nor we!
We never forget our, her luck,
those close death moments still do suck!
My street, horseshoe-shaped lucky me.
Street's arms pointed north, as should be.
Happy days, children, one, two, three.
The luckiest, we still agree!
Naomi won't forget, nor we!
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13th June 2018
New Constanza Poems Poetry Contest - Sponsored by Emile Pinet
Categories:
horseshoe, children, fun,
Form: Rhyme
I went down to the shore one day to sun and frolic and watch people play. There at a tidal pool a horseshoe crab did lay. With my foot I tapped his shell then came a shout out what the hell!
Can't you tell I'm in deep contemplation about my untenable situation.
The tide is out and here I be awaiting my trip to eternity so let me be.
No,no I exclaimed let me attempt your life to regain
I thank you sir I do indeed but you can not reverse what nature has decreed .
So return to your home and I to mine . Perhaps we would have been friends if we met in another time. When at home and warming by your fire just remember a horseshoe crab is not a crab at all but related to a spider.
Categories:
horseshoe, animal,
Form: Ode
Three hours of grassy scramble
attain Fairfield horseshoe
enveloped by immense landscape
an awe inspiring view
gentle glow upon my cheek
expelled from summer's ray
the timid breeze encircles me
this wondrous month of may
twirl to ambitiously consume
breathtaking panorama
the vastness of the rambling fells
create pure natural drama
I rest upon Saint Sundays crag
a scene which saturates
Helvellyn rises in the distance
cirrus cloud it infiltrates
brown, gold and red of heather below
amid gullys and facets sharp
inhale the flawless air around
I discover the windy harp
Categories:
horseshoe, nature
Form: Rhyme