Horse Pain In The Poems

Rid me of the pain of this world for I have my own pain to bear 
Everytime they look at me it feels I'm burned...

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Was the grandest parade of the year
I saw the king's carriage pass by
Then suddenly I started twitching
As dust gathered in my right eye
I was blinking...

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                 The Jacobite Rose 

Falling , the conscience of...

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A rotted old house deep in the South
Was where I learned to shut my mouth
And keep my stockings high and my hems low
And take care...

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Our scars
self-requited 
define
who we are

The pain
when it’s welcome
embedded
unmarred

Each blemish
redeeming
those choices
to blame

Absolving
our future
releasing
the shame

(‘Searching For Crazy Horse:’ September, 2010)...

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Ouch! Alright, I confess to overuse,
    But easy does it, tiger. Good grief!
   Must you kick me when I'm down?
When...

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PTSD

Like rabbit in the headlight caught
I want to move, i know I ought
But quicksand stuck, I’m petrified 
My body still, arms laid by side
Stretched out on...

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or

The Living Death beneath Macbeth

"The top 1 percent of households globally own 43 percent of all personal 
  wealth, while the bottom 50 percent...

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When spirits join in godly intercourse,
     love's so divine (and never like black bane)!
Invite another in like a Trojan horse,
 ...

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or      
     
Mr. Education  
   
"Few are familiar with each axiom of Logic...

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Ammonia-ed clumps of damp, dunged straw
forked onto her cold barrow, then rolled outside.
Across the field where her ninety pounds
thrust up the dray atop a mulching...

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OThe sexual smile the birth and death of kings,

The Plathian axe, the tree, and how it ringd

The horse unsaddled throws  its mistress off

The ending...

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I won't be the first cowboy
to chase a mare without reigns,
across wide and wild oat fields,
summer heat, and pouring rains,

and no one will be the...

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Ice cold, bitter in its wake
The last truly cold autumn that touched the world
A precipice of endless promise
For those willing to leap in it

Those words...

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I had a cat~I had a dog,                                     ...

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