Long Stirrups Poems

The Silence In Me
I have been on this road several times, and I have been contemplating 
the movement of the clouds, the direction of the trees, and the depth of the sea. The heart of...

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From strange elixir of mind 
a form walks in forming strange lines, 
in a poem of a chant of a spell, 
encantrain echoes it's well.
Where roses bloom, 
dead and spirits recite their bleed 
of encantation-...

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What Actually is School?

The Education Act 1996 (UK) defines a pupil as someone “for whom education is being provided at a school,” and as a person under 19, seeing a school as an educational institution...

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MIRZA GHALIB ENGLISH TRANSLATIONS

Urdu poems about life, death, Love, longing, hearts, being captive, strength, cruelty, temper, the sun, darkness, shadows and faith. 

I’m the captive of Love, the Huntress,
otherwise I’d have strength to flee.
—Mirza Ghalib,...

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Walk your Line 

A word to the blind:
From the day your first mount and ride
Till the moment you die
Walk your line
Walk proud and high
Through each and every wreck your stride unwinds
Walk your whole heart
spine upright
till...

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They hung around the beer joint with the finest Western wear
with thumbs tucked in their belt loops and such a studly air.
But those boots weren't made for stirrups and were polished to a sheen,
and on...

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A rainbow stallion
hailed, as if a cab.
I laid a hundred bucks
under his leather saddle.
I stepped into the stirrups,
then whipped onto
his primeval back.
I’d been expecting him.
An adventure I’d been told…
I knew nothing of how to ride
and...

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They Caught Me Young


The first cut is a cut so deep-
Internalising this impression
Has made me stir and creep
With invariable precision!

Great Writers caught me young
Whilst an exploring youth.
Leaning on the sublimely tongue
Exorcised my being uncouth!

Teachers, too,...

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Tears from the horse eyes are longer than a pane of glass
Tears from the horse eyes are  piercing the riders heart
He mounts the horse with courage and confidence
And leap a thousand meters towards the...

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My cousin Mike asked my dad, “can Bill stay”?
“It’s fine with me if your dad says okay.”
“If Bill will work to earn spending money
a couple of days, harvesting honey.”

We worked two half-days it wasn’t that...

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Welcome, to the falling away....

Where the living die, and the dead

They shall forever rise ~

Along the passages, of pantheons celestial light

The predators, and no longer the prey!

Standing within "The Kingdom," outside of the palace gates

Mingling...

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Foreplay starts hours before the bedroom.
Leaving a note on your car while you’re working,
As flowers are delivered in bloom.
Later, rubbing your feet to ease the hurting.

Over dinner, listening to your day.
Engaging every detail as your...

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I moved up on the outside to pass Bold Eclipse 
when this poncy young jockey bloke puckered his lips. 
Well I kicked well away and I picked up the pace 
and a divot of turf...

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2 Cowboys just been paid

1 named John
The other
1 Wayne

Walk into a Bar at approximately
2 o'clock on a tuesday aftenoon

In Old Wild West
Tombstone , Dodge City

And after 12 or so hour's later

A bell peels

Gentlemen drink up...

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Getting an IUD feels like…
A needle in a haystack.
Except your uterus is the haystack
And the needle, it’s really in there.

It’s not a single garment below the waist,
Bare butt, bare back.
It’s lying down where many women...

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Broken but disbelieving, we wait   
for any doctor to say it’s just blood
as the gray man greens, throws-
up in triage. A Goth teen holds Band-Aids
to her scalped thumb.  Somebody loses  
patience,...

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I am not a cowboy, though I wear a cowboy hat
and the boots I wear have pointed toes and heels that ain’t near flat.
I want to be a cowboy, but I’m stopped by one condition
I...

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Note:  All lines in this heap are from failed sonnets that I tried to stack without having any two consecutive lines come from the same poem.  I had to break the rule twice....

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I put a grin on your face. 
She said, "Release my shackles, darling," 
I'm looking for you; I'm just looking for you.
And if you don't mind, I'll meet you shortly. 
Allowing your spirit to embrace...

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There are tall ones, and short ones,
	Plastic ones, and leather ones.
	Some made with thick rubber soles.
	Others have soles full of holes!
	That's right! Boots! Dozens of boots.
	All types! Both ugly, and cute.

	Some are made for walking...

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Then entered conversation wife with fright,
as Jose spoke things patron needed know.

"And you'll never be, Don Huerra. I've best sailing record of any coast line.
My times are best, rates lowest, safety record unmatched."
"What are you...

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I find that friendship is a gift I want to give at times to strang-
ers though clear logic’s trace is missing (should the cat get out of bag!)
and it’s found motive’s ghost’s a glimmer that’s...

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His bones have been to hell and back his body's gouged and rough
His chaps they sit upon his legs as he does each buckle up
He feels the pain in his neck and back from every...

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Oh, the stirrups sway in the breeze
And slick leather shines in the sun,
As he slings it on the wood fence
With calloused hands of sky dark dun.

It’s the saddle of youthful days,
The one he rode so...

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"The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives 
     fully is prepared to die at any time."   ~Mark Twain

Life’s greatest mystery is
Death –
...

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