Horse Narrative Poems

Joel just collapsed into the brown dirt,
clutching his face in both of his palms,
cried,”Running Moon, the day that you ‘died,’
was the day my life started...

Read More

For all that day the frantic chase went on,
until evening’s gloom started to spill,
even in the middle of a warm August,
Yukon nights can give a...

Read More

At the remote Carmacks trading post,
during eighteen hundred and ninety-four,
a teenage child, a scared-looking half-breed,
timidly entered through the front door.

Joel Claughtrey barely noticed the young...

Read More

In seventeen seventy-seven,
amidst the deep summer’s August heat,
Barry St. Leger, loyalist milita,
and the Iroquois walked on sore feet.

Their mission was clear: move down the Mohawk,
meet...

Read More

As I stood outside the whisper of your voice was strong.
I could tell your intentions were for the better.
After all you were building my future...

Read More

I had no clue it was Valentine’s Day
Because no one said happy Valentine’s Day
I had no clue it was valentines’ Day
Because I had no one...

Read More

Beauty and elegance…style and grandeur 
There is no other beast with such magical lure
Their speed and agility moves them out ahead
For this single objective…they’re selectively...

Read More

The unexpected heavy thud
of netted hay on solid wood.
My horses snort and sigh and chew,
as glistening cobwebs sway with dew. There is comfort in their...

Read More

...A big log bounced from way up top,
and before Guy could react
It struck his square across the chest,
up rose a sickening crack.

We sprinted quickly to...

Read More

Back in nineteen hundred and three
I working with a logging crew,
cutting and limbing mighty trees,
be they hemlock, pine, or spruce.

We worked for the Nowell Paper...

Read More

The Wonder Of Life and Time

by Lemuel R. Griffiths

04/12/2,017


It's night.., 
Some would say late., 
A revving car engine - 
I rise - view the horse...

Read More

The white race has a point
But that doesn't mean
They should treat us improper
The white race has a point
Nature is repeating it over and over
White snow,...

Read More

WISH I KNEW YOU WHEN I WAS YOUNG

Looking back on those years...
Everything was fragmented.
Everything was made by nightmare.
I got a lot of questions to ask,
But...

Read More

From here to there
Once at the roundabout, I stopped for precaution
Stretching my arching legs, so much exhaustion
Many a long mile I have been, 
I am...

Read More

Freedoms wagon


Misty rain falls upon  those paying their respects
Does not forestall the march of this kind
Fellow soldiers followed the horse drawn wagon
headed to the...

Read More

A SAGA OF OLD EL PASO
AND LADY B GOOD
There was a famous lady of El Paso in the Old West
She hunted and trapped, trading furs...

Read More

 Jeremiah Brown limped a lot 
ever since the age of five,
When a horse trampled his left shin,
The boy was given up to die.

But her...

Read More

Long before the white man came 
to the Black Hills of South Dokota,
in a teepee made of buffalo skin
lived a young Sioux warrior called Akecheta;
he...

Read More

Yellow
beams glistening
on close growing clover-
when the lark departs is summer
over?

Tedious toil from dawn to dark,a farmhands days then so harsh and stark.The 
clockhands ticks round...

Read More

Prince Jargo
was on a mission to
slay the evil green dragon
of the kingdom of
Wondrous Land in 
which his father 
King Andro insisted 
it was time for...

Read More