Long Horseless Poems

Much more than 'Georgia on my mind,' forever in my heart,
'Blue shadows on the trail' can not defeat
The beauty of her day or days on any daunting steed
Whose back she graced, wind in her mane...

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Ones who are blessed and don't even know it
Feeling the love but too frightened to show it
Courage comes in all multitudes of ways
And so much will be needed toward the end days
But sometimes the bravery...

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Spring, the mischievous libertine,
Has twitched from the chrysalis of dull realities,
Sneaking, slyly, among norms and tasteless thoughts,
A live torch in the old auditoriums where science quivers with emotion.
With the gesture of a diva, she shatters...

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Year 1488
Daring to hide it in verses and score,
Mother Shipton predicted her scrolls would not be understood until years after her body’s release.
Read aloud by an educated nephew, almost five decades after they were protected...

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Year 1488
Daring to hide it in verses and score,
Ursula Shipton predicted her scrolls would not be understood until years after her body’s release.
Read aloud by an educated nephew, almost five decades after they were protected...

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Once I was so full of life, 
   Teeming with children, struggle and strife
Every day, 
  Mother got up and made Papa some coffee,
Made herself some tea.
     ...

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Cowboys in the Badlands


The horses need be reined tightly
lest they show better judgment
and head back to the barn.  The
cowboys, driven by the dust cloud
of following hoof beats, were less smart.
A Gila monster smirks as...

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A lot of fancy gizmos befuddle me in this technological age,
Where perplexing computers, texting and twittering are all the rage!
I can empathize with the feller who renounced horse and buggy days,
To subdue the baffling horseless...

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Evil fingers caressing the face
Every line they do trace
All the silver strands of hair
Take the ride so you won't care
Hide the many scars of pain
Get back on the horse and ride again
Why do such good...

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Lessons on Head Containment

People lose their heads
It’s what they do 
And should it happen to you
Someone could use it for bowling
Let us pray for containment
Generally and specifically speaking
It is advised
Don’t be born
At the time of...

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(The husband of Henriette is in a casino, playing
roulette, and not especially concerned about her
plight.  The Hotel Dieux is a hospital alongside
Notre Dame Cathedral, in downtown Paris.)


5. Joseph Caillaux

When? The chips are down. This...

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A sinewy faith built rough cabins.
We were pleased to claim this land
for Jesus.

We raised cities that were bear free.
Everything soared;
later crime and meth rose even 
higher.

Cracks appeared where a garish paint 
had weathered the sky.
Plaster...

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Late Night Movies. 

I wear denim trousers and matching jacket in winters, this because 
I always wanted to be a cowboy, the simple life, what can be simpler 
than herding cows. I can’t afford to...

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Vehicle Island 

While the owners of parked cars at the seaside 
sat in overcrowded restaurants and was served
by sweat dripping waiters the cars started and
drove in a neat formation into the sea.
A mass suicide that...

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Salami for a Horse. 
Driving home from the man whose profession 
is to study people´s entrails, rice pudding he
had said and no booze- and for this banality 
he charged me 80 euros; the car stopped...

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Once again here I stand
No violins or marching bands
Among the confusion in which I live
A large parade in my name they give
How my mind goes spinning to the ground
Watching the horseless merry go round
I know...

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WHERE ARE THE HORSES ?


Sound of hooves, rattle of harness -
Our world is suddenly horseless.
Where have all the horses gone?
And men selling  the ice-cream  cone,   
Or rag-and-bone,  or  pop,...

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