We heard their hooves twenty minutes before they appeared
stallions and mares rounding the corner of the world at break leg speed
blur of red, black and gray wild mustangs, free to roam the plains
Wyoming’s finest specimens, some sixteen hands high
giant powerful wildebeests disappeared as rapidly as they appeared.
will never forget those strained necks or those drumming hoof beat
eterea flash sight not seen by me in the next fifty-one years.
Sometimes I hear those hoofbeats in my dream, my heart leaping.
Categories:
mustangs, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
Coats of shimmering autumn,
pied shadows, blinding snow
Time and mist have scribbled fear
into the sinews
LIBERUM Divisa 3 Poetry Contest
Gregory R Barden
Tuesday Dec it’s 2020
Original poem
Winged Steeds of Mist
https://www.poetrysoup.com/poem/winged_steeds_of_mist_933961
Categories:
mustangs, beauty, fear, horse,
Form: Free verse
So free
all the mustangs
running wild in the plains
side by side as they neigh
In my dream I rode one like a cowboy
I wish I could spirit away
to the beautiful plains
where mustangs run
so free
Some Paradise Where Horses Go Poetry Contest
Sponsored by: Michelle Faulkner
Date written: 03/29/2020
Categories:
mustangs, beauty, horse, imagery, places,
Form: Rictameter
Nine wild mustangs canter across the prairie
Old West symbols of animals on free range
Known to them is only one adversary
-- Pounding hooves fade into history’s pages
Magnificent specie appears unwary
Victim of habitat infringement and change
Government roundups so unnecessary
Protection not offered, to the contrary
Mustangs captured and sold for slaughter’s exchange
Deaths of entire herds appear arbitrary
-- Pounding hooves fade into history’s pages
*February 26, 2019
Categories:
mustangs, horse,
Form: Roundel
On this pristine shoreline Wild Mustangs roam,
Over five hundred years it has been their home,
Their beauty and independence deserve our respect,
Their mere presence allows us to connect,
To Colonial times when Mustangs arrived on boats,
With Spanish Path Finders who were exploring the coast,
Of North Carolina shores, the Outer Banks the most,
Some horses were abandoned, others survived storm wrecked boats,
Mustangs have endured hurricanes, floods and developments of man,
Diseases, injuries and ignorant tourists racing through sand,
Uneducated visitors who feed them food of the junk brand,
Which can cause death and deplete this Wild Mustang Band.
These Mustangs are the oldest and the rarest of strains,
They are intelligent, strong with energy you can't contain,
Muscular and beautiful right down to their long manes,
And have innate instinct to be wild, no restrain.
Let them be wild, let them run free,
Let them be what they were born to be,
View them from a distance so you can see,
These Spanish Wild Mustangs completely free..
Categories:
mustangs, beach, beauty, horse,
Form: Rhyme
MUSTANGS
In the wide open spaces of Wyoming
Where sheep and horses graze
I took a notion to do some roamin'
And spend at least a few days
The days turned into weeks
The weeks turned into months
I had to go back to take a peek
'Cause I had been there once
In a gorgeous meadow surrounded by hills
Where the deer and the antelope play
Stood a quaint log cabin with all the frills
Was where I was allowed to stay
But the most breathtaking sight of all
Were the mustangs running free
Not penned up in a closed in stall
But in the open for all to see
I marveled at how they seemed to say
Wouldn't you like to join us here
To run and romp, jump and play
With nothing to bring us fear
Yes, the wildlife in Wyoming
Is a marvelous sight to see
And wild mustangs still roaming
Hold a great attraction for me
8 September 2018
For the contest sponsored by John Lawless
Categories:
mustangs, freedom, horse,
Form: Rhyme
Mustangs are wild and free
Always moving forward
And never turning back
They run under the sky
And sleep under the stars
As one family
They run though the grass
And swim in the water
Conquering the land
With the wind in their hair
And freedom in their eyes
They are mustangs
January 2018
Categories:
mustangs, 9th grade, animal, horse,
Form: Free verse
~Mustangs Are Born Free~
(Monchielle)
Let wild horses run free
In mountains let them be
Release them let them go
Stop killing these horses
They are so scared you know
Let wild horses run free
Don't divide mom from baby
Wild horses to be free
Let them run in mountain
Don't take freedom away
Let wild horses run free
Let's join voices help horses
Take them where they belong
They truly need our help
Selling these horses wrong
Let wild horses run free
Since small I love horses
I grew up watch them grow
Mustangs are beautiful
They're unique smart you know.
Dorian Petersen Potter
aka ladydp2000
copyright@2009
February.02.2017
~Author's Notes:
The Monchielle form or style, was created by Jim T. Henriksen.
“Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.”
- Mark Twain -
Categories:
mustangs, beautiful, horse, love, mountains,
Form: Free verse
~Mustangs Are Born Free~
(Monchielle)
Let wild horses run free
In mountains let them be
Release them let them go
Stop killing these horses
They are so scared you know
Let wild horses run free
Don't divide mom from baby
Wild horses to be free
Let them run in mountain
Don't take freedom they plea
Let wild horses run free
Let's join voices help horses
Take them where they belong
They truly need our help
Selling these horses wrong
Let wild horses run free
Since small I love horses
I grew up watch them grow
Mustangs are beautiful
They're unique, smart you know.
Dorian Petersen Potter
aka ladydp2000
copyright@2012
April.03.2016
~Author's Notes:
The "Monchielle" is a poetry style created by Jim T. Henriksen.
Categories:
mustangs, beautiful, horse, love, mountains,
Form: Rhyme
~Mustangs Are Born Free~
(Monchielle)
Let wild horses run free
In mountains let them be
Release them let them go
Stop killing these horses
They are so scared you know
Let wild horses run free
Don't divide mom from baby
Wild horses to be free
Let them run in mountain
Don't take freedom away
Let wild horses run free
Let's join voices help horses
Take them where they belong
They truly need our help
Selling these horses wrong
Let wild horses run free
Since small I love horses
I grew up watch them grow
Mustangs are beautiful
They're unique smart you know.
Dorian Petersen Potter
aka ladydp2000
copyright@2009
November.1.2015
~Author's Notes:
The Monchielle form, was created by Jim T. Henriksen.
Categories:
mustangs, beautiful, freedom, horse, mountains,
Form: Rhyme
~Mustangs Are Born Free~
(Monchielle)
Let wild horses run free
In mountains let them be
Release them let them go
Stop killing these horses
They are so scared you know.
Let wild horses run free
Don't divide mom from baby
Wild horses to be free
Let them run in mountain
Don't take freedom away.
Let wild horses run free
Let's join voices help horses
Take them where they belong
They truly need our help
Selling these horses wrong.
Let wild horses run free
Since small I love horses
I grew up watch them grow
Mustangs are beautiful
They're unique smart you know.
Dorian Petersen Potter
aka ladydp2000
copyright@2012
May.28.2015
Authors notes:
The Monchielle form was created by Jim T. Henriksen.
Categories:
mustangs, animal, beautiful, beauty, horse,
Form: Rhyme
(Monchielle)
Let wild horses run free
In mountains let them be
Release them let them go
Stop killing these horses
They are so scared you know.
Let wild horses run free
Don't divide mom from baby
Wild horses to be free
Let them run in mountain
Don't take freedom away.
Let wild horses run free
Let's join voices help horses
Take them where they belong
They truly need our help
Selling these horses wrong.
Let wild horses run free
Since small I love horses
I grew up watch them grow
Mustangs are beautiful
They're unique smart you know.
Dorian Petersen Potter
aka ladydp2000
aka ladylove
copyright@2014
December,05,2014
Categories:
mustangs, animal, environment, horse,
Form: Rhyme
(Monchielle)
Let wild horses run free
In mountains let them be
Release them let them go
Stop killing these horses
They are so scared you know
Let wild horses run free
Don't divide mom from baby
Wild horses to be free
Let them run in mountain
Don't take freedom away
Let wild horses run free
Let's join voices help horses
Take them where they belong
They truly need our help
Selling these horses wrong
Let wild horses run free
Since small I love horses
I grew up watch them grow
Mustangs are beautiful
They're unique smart you know.
Dorian Petersen Potter
aka ladydp2000
copyright@2009
September,10,2014
Categories:
mustangs, animal, appreciation, beautiful, beauty,
Form: Verse
An ache, some hurt with longing to yearn
Cauldron left to simmer with passion
Bubbles in the fire ball of desire
Closely watch topless metaphors;
Animal instinct with intuition
Gets drawn in a desperate hunger
As she is wooed in the foreplay
Melodious moments with sensation;
Makes her cower to his firm will,
For she loves the rapture and thrill:
Categories:
mustangs, lifelonging,
Form: Free verse
(Monchielle)
Let wild horses run free
In mountains let them be
Release them let them go
Stop killing these horses
They are so scared you know
Let wild horses run free
Don't divide mom from baby
Wild horses to be free
Let them run in mountain
Don't take freedom away
Let wild horses run free
Let's join voices help horses
Take them where they belong
They truly need our help
Selling these horses wrong
Let wild horses run free
Since small I love horses
I grew up watch them grow
Mustangs are beautiful
They're unique smart you know.
Dorian Petersen Potter
aka ladydp2000
copyright@2009
September 24,2009
To read more about these magnificent horses and I really
hope that you do and can help them somehow to.
Follow the link right here below.I got it from CNN.Thanks.
I appreciate it, we all really need to advocate
and do something about this very important
and beautiful animals.
http://thecloudfoundation.org/
Categories:
mustangs, animalsbeautiful, beautiful,
Form: Verse
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