Pony Poems

Beneath the city the river fishing is good.

I roam with tackle and pole below those wiggling tapeworms
Wound around the cement underbelly of bridges
Devouring the guts of the city’s glamour
Down here where shadows are long as green moss
And the voices of...Read More

I am going to start my life tomorrow
Or when I get my income tax money
Or when the right man comes along
Or when I find a pony
...Read More

Where to begin
in the middle of cold and dark
winter's solstice,
healthy green life's time
of impeachment,
excommunication,
dormancy?

Where does this all rightfully
and sacredly left end?

These are expansive gadfly questions,
problems,
issues of complexly dipolar reason,
leftbrain dominant
either-or thinking
we are either thinking or feeling
rather than conscious of both,
and...Read More

She had a dream
Of seaside escapades
And seabreeze in her hair
This little lonely girl
Landlocked at her desk
Utterly determined
To make her dream come true
She took a fistful of crayons
And brought to life her pony



posted on January 17, 2020...Read More

Stars were bright as he rode toward the valley  
Cars formed a chain on the road down below  
Bars flashed their neon near their closin' time  
Wars he put behind and he'd leave it so  ...Read More

An unsettled soul seemingly always chasing propaganda 
voice from the equator, a quarter of a roar but heard in Uganda
he’s a member of a serious interaction, that’s a fake platform
on reputation’s policy, he can’t just conform
his name is a broken...Read More

The gunfire rages
through the cracks
of neighborhood cages
as every fetid tenement ages
and voodoo economics suppress wages
of waitresses, cabbies and sages...

while the slick-shoe alderman engages
in taxing your turnip-blood in stages
and blue-jeaned billionaires decry outrages
of clothes-hanger abortions back-stages
and gang-banger rampages --
as this feckless...Read More

Well I wonder, what Saint Nick will bring?
Will he bring me a pony, will he bring me a watch?
Will he bring me a swing?
Or tighty-whiteys and an ugly pair of socks?
Will he bring me a blue bird that'll sing?
Or like...Read More

Flop, flap, pap and boots dragging across the concrete.

That’s the sound of a River Rat somewhere standing in formation forever.
 
The sound of his comrades catching him and dragging him away. The sound of him being the joke of the...Read More

Gaunt, lanky, dreamlike with an eerie stride, 
he could pass for a living Giacometti sculpture.
A shiny blue guitar hangs over a shoulder,

his sleeveless arms a-swirl with paisley-like tattoos, 
an orangatang reddish beard smothering his face, 
his hair pulled back into...Read More

With a heavy heart,
the sorrow in it 
feels 
           all
	       hope
            is
sinking

And with...Read More

shared a strange reality made from footsteps
the land of spirit being open to improvisation
with existence a fountain of plenty for all
too much meaning too much of the time
is it not true to the self of selves that
suffering to one is...Read More

Angels Touch the Earth

The soft color of red, 
turned ever so slowly to pink… carnations.
The grand color of blue, 
the sky, the ocean, 
the color of my new born daughter’s eyes. 
They are just like yours my love. 
A mirror,...Read More

I would like a magic timer please
To turn all the fairy tale frogs back into princes.
And a sparkly gold and silver money tree
To plant in the backyard and share with the neighbors.

I would like a pink pony with a unicorn...Read More

The gravel driveway lies outside the barnyard,
a young rider on its back asks if this is the first ride,
and about the reins it bears. Just ahead lies a field
lined by trees, and beyond, a highway where it
must stop. The young...Read More

Frank had
a ranch in
Montana

he'd ride
his pygmy
pony as i

try to sing
along my
voice is 

a little hoarse
as i ride my
porcelain

horse
into
the

sun
set
...Read More

          Heart Sutra

The moonlight, the firelight,
the scent of your cologne.
Enchanting, oh!
Our toes in amorous games 
do play, shadow dancing.
The flames act as our footlights 
and so......

As the first frost descends on...Read More

And ignoble prize trumpeting hubris awarded to...

Bourgeoisie donning ersatz
overstuffed ego freezer bewigged pate
"FAKE" grotesque humanitarian
bribed corrupt judges will vindicate
jimmied cracked corn
land of "milk and honey"

red hot button he spoils to activate
countdown to Armageddon
leaving nation prostrate,
all the more reason to axe...Read More

II.
It was several days before trouble came,
the quiet seemed at odds with all the news,
the papers told of a nation enraged,
with loud cries for the Sioux to meet their doom.

Myron was out feeding hay to the horses
all bunched up in...Read More

Brave Woman

Wounded and outnumbered by U.S. soldiers,
The Northern Cheyenne Warrior ‘Chief Comes in Sight,’
Fights to stay alive in the Rosebud Creek valley;
When his sister spots his predicament,
And jumps on her pony and races to save him.
Amid the arrows, bullets and...Read More

A camel at the Camelot
Didn't seem happy or comfy
For alas, he was without humps
So of course they named him Humphrey

His face popped up throughout the land
A hero against attrition 
He even had a fan club called,
The Humphrey Camel Coalition!

Soon they...Read More

Brick a brack
This and that, 
Wish I had a pony.
Sky blue puppy dogs,
One single white cat,
My lovely memories…

Hit me, kick me, 
Stop that now! 
I am free, you are free,
Monsters don’t eat apples.
Plant an apple tree! 

This time, never rhyme
Tell...Read More

The 4th of July in my hometown is
Bigger than Christmas 
Because all of the non-townies come home

It is bigger than Homecoming
There is a carnival, and a parade.
The high school band plays.

Concession stands all over the town square
Sell things we can...Read More

Kick ‘em to go,
pull ‘em to stop,
if you love them so much,
don’t use that crop.

There are kinder ways 
to ride and train horses,
on a trail, in the arena 
and even on the race courses!

The change must start 
with you alone,
ask...Read More

she
bit 
her lip

not
in a
bad way

but
suggestively

i put
a bit in
my mouth

being
a little
hoarse

her
pony
...Read More