Horse Poetry Poems

A long night folds inwards.
Fast breathless dreams run together,
old stories retold
absent of beginning's or endings.

Between them
lucid periods, when the mind
reviews many fleeting scenes
seeking reasons or...

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I gaze beyond 
the silver winged 
     heart of 
twinkling twilight,
lost within metaphors 
    in warm cashmere
 ...

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I Don’t Know What To Say To Katie Clemens
By Steve Body
Copyright 2009


I don’t know what to say to Katie Clemens.
All the words are jumbled in...

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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...

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I ride to the store on horseback and saddle,
I Leave him outside its distasteful to ride indoors,
My horse stays there it waits it needs no...

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Bilocation is a term that pecks at my mind's tree
Seeking to make a hole and create a nest of fables
Laying eggs of verity and hatching...

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A wintery sun slips under a flat horizon.
No faraway lights to guide me,
just this pitch-dark moor and a racing pulse.

I was thinking too much or...

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Blaring words without letters,
the piecing screams of silence,
her face a waterfall of tears,
anger reaching for its own throat,
looks punching through dry walls.
The roots of rage
pumping...

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Some say that we humans,
have a mission here on earth.

Somebody should teach that
to the ears of idiots.

Few discover their mission,
they rationalize
that being a scientist or...

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A sheriff I was in a small town,
seen fifty years, and earned no renown,
when Black Ken and his gang did come down
to Mick Callahan’s big...

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You complain like the more you speak the closer the problem is to being solved,
Your volume raises and it speaks volumes to everything you don't...

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I rushed into my friend’s office once not realizing she had a guest.
She said “This is Dr. Pat McClintock.”
Dr. Pat McClintock said “You are a...

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D-evotion In Vain; Open Rawness Consuming; Ex-spouse
I-nconvenience; neither one willed to stay the course
V-intage it is of matrimony failing; now get back on the horse
O-ccurred...

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When I’m watching the news these days,
I just can’t help but wonder why.
When all of the stories I see,
just makes me want to scream and...

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...He fell to the snow, choking his last breath,
Dalton watched despite his own fading strength,
Barnes dismounted and walked over to him,
said, “I see that you...

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