Horse No Go Poems

Now When I Go Visit, Tears Fall, It Makes Me Sad

He rode the high plains to hell's dead weathered edge
Across the highest mountain on a...

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i wanna know if ya’ll want to go to the mall?
not me said Paul. I am fixing this old horse stall.
yes, said Miss Kirkendall. I...

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Went shopping for new underpants
In the hope I might find some romance
Half way to the shop, bumped into a cop
Who held up his hand and...

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Let’s go horseback riding; it will be fun!
I say “I don’t want to.”
She keeps hounding me.
I say “Do you want me to lie?”
I finally lie.

Because...

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Let’s go to Mitchell she suggested to me.
I rolled my eyes; we had just had tea.
I know what you’re after, you’re not fooling me.
She is...

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Where on Earth or far beyond do we poets go, you ask. 
My thoughts willingly stretch my imagination with this task.
I would reply...in any direction...

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It is time to leave us now

In life of passage we are blessed with an unspoken connection 
His destiny quivering in my hands as the...

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Then your falling youth
How pitiful!
In long-term use-
Suspending, feeble breasts-
Obsessed, nostalgic-
Recalling the lustrous sunlight.

There grows- 
The line of oblivion of quarter century
There grows-
In the line of...

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I rode that memory once before,
Galloping down child lane once more,
Fleeting past some faces I have known,
Some buried treasures I have out grown.

Dad waving in...

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two roundels

“Mommy, let’s go ride Maxwell, Don’t say no again.”
My son has named ev’ry horse on the carousel.
“We will go soon!”, I promised but I...

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Villanelle: Alright guys: Heave and Ho! And let it go

(Confinement to one’s home though fines during « outings" add to revenue, private companies take orders...

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I am inspired to run swift and fast
In the open fields like horses of the past.
To embark on a wonderful adventure
And connect with such a...

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When the last roundup's  all been done
The brandin' irons have cooled
When the spurs are hangin' on the wall
The bridles all are jeweled

There's a place...

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*Image of Horses Nature by Pixabay.

Some Paradise Where Horses Go

"Somewhere, somewhere in time's own space
There must be some sweet pastured place
Where creeks sing on and...

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It’s hot in the car 
squashed beside my brother and sister,
I can’t breathe open the window
no, they giggle and whisper.

We arrive at the horse stables
I...

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