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Nicker Poems - Poems about Nicker

Premium MemberUpon a Meadow

...Upon the meadow where you were born,
I make a vow to stay by your side,
And though my heart in anguish is torn,
Tear-filled eyes remember our last ride.

You breathe hard as you lay in the grass...
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Categories: nicker, death, horse,
Form: Rhyme

Hats Held

...Valor, thy call is a countryman's claim.
Nowhere but not quite alone in the game.
Thunderbolt, twilight is perfect for you!
Hope will accrue before we all turn blue...
Singular, smiling. Sink fas...
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Categories: nicker, allusion, business,
Form: Rhyme



Feature, Flame

...Flame-featured twilight, illuminate fast!
Young are the dreams of humanity vast!
Age is a mystery museums kept.
Poets and prophets in agony wept...
Core of the harpsichord, pyramid-shaped.
Moorl...
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Categories: nicker, beautiful, creation, culture, cute,
Form: Rhyme

Night Numbered

...Night, drape deep in slumber.
O dream, to nightmare turn?
Multitude, legion, number!
Death, dearth to discern...

Rule of law in wasted land?
Show them, when ye stand.
Orderly, cold counterman...
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Categories: nicker, business,
Form: Rhyme

Prime over Soul?

...Light my way, O autumn skies.
Tough turbulence, roll, soul. Endeavor, smoky skies.
Wanton, golden bowl? Veer. Rapture, raptor hawk?
Gibbous frost, allure, dark moon.
Cloud castles, arrive through...
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Categories: nicker, allegory, allusion, bereavement, bridal
Form: Suzette Prime



Premium MemberSpeak Your Mind, But Ride A Fast Horse

...That be cold sun rose yonder, our heads be hot, I'd declare,
I'll get Whitey my critter, worked all night, best she nicker.
'Bout saddlin' her real tight, or I'll headlong out of sight,
I ...
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Categories: nicker, analogy, animal, appreciation, best
Form: Cowboy Poetry

Premium MemberThey Are Coming This Weekend

...They are coming this weekend 
I have known for two weeks
Why clean ahead?
Why clean at all?
Isn’t it time they knew
Their mother HATES to clean.
I snicker and nicker to myself.
Snorting now.
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Categories: nicker, life,
Form: Free verse

Teanaway Valley

...An old Point Man phoned, “Do ya think you can do it?.  
Driving doggies and cows from the flanks of Mt. Stewart?"
Fattened on grass for a year they had stayed. 
“Move a river of horns down to Yaki...
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Categories: nicker, peace, river,
Form: Cowboy Poetry

Pals

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Pals

Their faces are still there;
caricatures and cameos,
amigo mugs and jug ears.

Cheering, jeering chums
that would phone at four in the morning
to garble drunken thought...
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Categories: nicker, poetry,
Form: Free verse

Pals

...Their faces are still there;
caricatures and cameos,
amigo mugs and jug ears.
Cheering, jeering chums
that would phone at four in the morning
to garble drunken thoughts,
make momentous plans,
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Categories: nicker, poetry,
Form: Blank verse

Premium MemberThe Visit, Part Ii

...("The Visit", Part II)

How can she not know I'm standing so near?
Perhaps, she's expecting the same to reappear
Like before after her being to me kind and sweet,
Because of fear, I made ...
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Categories: nicker, abuse, horse, love, trust,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberAtstan Impressario

...An Angelo Arab, you had immense spirit
dappled grey with a huge leap  over fences.
Your stable name was Tom, pedigree name
too much of a mouthful for every day use.

In your stable you were a te...
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Categories: nicker, horse, love, trust,
Form: Ode

Horses Are Heroes

...I've always admired 
horses
and I guess I most surely 
always will
No legend without em' 
complete
The unsung heroes of 
any heroic battle

Pony, colt, filly or mare
ride it bareback if you...
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Categories: nicker, horse
Form: Quatorzain

Premium MemberFree Spirits

...He was fiery black and fast as the wind
and dominated his herd tenderly
yet he had ties, silken cords, him to bind
to her that graced his life preciously

He would greet her with a joyous nicker...
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Categories: nicker, freedom,
Form: Sonnet

Premium MemberCowgirl Hat Song On Cd

...She has a cowgirl hat and a set of spurs,
And sometimes she's as gentle as a cat that purrs,
Imagine that....she's my way with words,
And her and I together'd tame a buffalo herd,

Yea! she's th...
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Categories: nicker, cowboy-western, love, song-lyricdance, dance,
Form: Lyric

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