Manes Poems

Why do I love you, dreamer born from the morning mist that rises to the sky

...Why do I love you, dreamer born from the morning mist that rises to the sky,
Who coils around my chest like blue smoke, like a vine,
Embracing my temples with your gentle touch like a boundless sea...

Seashore

...Sly low tide sneaks up to smooch the smooth shore
that holds old footsteps left behind us
and lends itself to sand castles
standing guard until high tide
plovers dart on fleet feet
across sodden...

Silent Songs of the Soul

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Written: April, 29, 2025, for contest Sponsored by: Robert James Liguori

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Soulful manes croon gently in silence
The optimism has hidden purposes,  
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Nilgiri Tahr

...Sure-footed on rugged hill
Likes life on mountain range
Rolling grassland fits the bill
Short horns reveal their age
Ovines in endangered stage

Males change from Brown, grey to black
Deft cli...

Unicorns

...I like unicorns.
Huge majestic creatures with
beautiful manes. Yay!...

Muriel, a memory

...Memory of Muriel 
When the big wave crashed ashore
 on the rocky side of the bay, seven white stallions, silky manes flying, galloped ashore to seek freedom in the green winter valley.
The old man...

You Saw Anew

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      Sundial numerals illuminate 
      Knowing noon narrow shadow arrow strikes
      Flicks ‘round corners of maze elaborate 
      Heraldic daffodil, dormant out psychs 

      
      Lio...

Vanishing Buffalo

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  They thundered across the fertile plains,
  Those hardened hooves, those tangled manes,
   But now the Buffalo can't be found.
   They thundered across the fertile plains.
   The long grass h...

Voyage

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Written: March 28, 2024 For Constance La France Contest

Quote: (The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.) Marcel Proust

Springtime Frolic

...Sunlight spills on sprightly steeds,  
Spring's sweet song stirs sleeping seeds.  
Spirited stallions, sleek and swift,  
Sashaying through the springtime mist.

Silken shadows shift and sway,  ...

Bunny Rabbit Tango

...Conejo Conejito Tango (Bunny Rabbit Tango)

The mesmerizing twilight dims
across a lake a warm breeze skims
Buck, the handsome rabbit drinks,
he has no doe; his love life stinks.
He stares at h...

HALLS OF AMENTI 1

...HALLS OF AMENTI :1

My Kingdom is clear of books
                                poetry, coins
                  My Kingdom is clear of colour 
                        just Me on my Throne 
giv...

The Wind Carries On

...The wind carries on, seeking a peaceful place, to muss hair and raise Cain.
With no friends to meet, it invites the flowers, to scent the summer breeze.
The birds draft its thermals, to far-away pl...

Winter's Wind

...hooves pounding the snow
   manes flying in Winter's wind ~
      mustangs on the hills...

The Coastguard

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Above the choppy,
viewed from
behind the glassy
winded and floppy.
He observes the flossy 
dark black rolling 
white and frothy.
Salt filtered manes blown 
acrossy limpits rocky 
trapping ...

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