Horse Narrative Poems

IV.
The bandits jolted as slugs struck home hard,
only one was able to shoot back,
Meredith’s horse reared, and tossed her off,
she slammed to the ground and...

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II.
In the week that followed that cold, hard scene,
Reno settled in and got down to work,
he did tie up loose ends for the estate,
but mostly...

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Django rode to town that day,

The wind against his back.

The children halted all their play,

As dust blew down the track.



He went inside the town's saloon,

His...

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My whole world as I knew was never more; when I caught a glance of an attractive  dark haired Irish man with piercing blue...

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San Francisco, California
Present time

I enjoyed my beautiful brandy with my best friend Melodee and we were both Fates that worked with Death.
“I see your glass...

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If life was a horse race it would be more fair
But it’s a sloppy track
You don’t get a starting gate
Use what you have and run...

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It spread its grizzly legs on the whitewashed wall
Firmly baked in the early summer heat 
Spitting perspiration dripping from the white crisps ceiling
While I cling...

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Waves pushed a torrent of power and might.
Against the tiny creature seemingly lost in the night.
With only the moon to navigate her path,
Little seahorse galloped—
	Giddy...

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Once there was a country boy called Chester,
     he came from the rural Appalachians;
got himself a farming job not far from...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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...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...

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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...

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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...

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