Horse Quintain (English) Poems

Before  the Roman legions carved a road
This stallion coursed across the chalk ridge brow
Unharnessed, free or by a king bestrode
Like wave traversing grassland free...

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Sweltering sun on his beaded sweat
His iron hoofs hammered the dry parched grass
Native winds did part his black mane offset
Heaving nostrils breathing fire flaring past
Wild...

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My fantasy man – I will always remember him
and how stunning he looked that day
outside my apartment building – tall, dark-eyed, and slim,
and wearing skin-tight...

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A horse that runs wild and free
 Enjoys freedom with each stride
    No saddle on his withers be
 No grazing muzzle as...

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Summer’s golden blade does thrust
its effervescent golden musk,
and into  wheaten fields’ did trust,
a volley of  ethereal rust, 
caught by tempered, evening gust

Cart and...

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My soul is a wanderer,
My mind an amazing maze,
No matter how far I wander
I stagger back within my gaze--
As a tethered horse graze!


06/15/15
For "Five lines...

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Late in the night walking thro’ a snow filled field
Windy winter wild night, clear and cold
The moon is bright and the sun is afield
Light as...

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I love Lucy not Mister Ed
one was love the other a horse
I laughed more with Lucy of course
loved their landlords Ethel and Fred
Mister Ed would...

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Shining armor clad 'pon a white horse
Eternally strong knight my love, my guide
Reign in, hold, steer my feeble course
Encircle with loving arms, shelter, hide
Now let...

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Silver bells ring faintly through the wintry wooded land
from shiny horse-drawn sleighs gliding across powdered snow.
I cuddle up to a toasty fire with hot cocoa...

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Peering through a telescope,
the Horse Head Nebula swirls in green.
Casting aside times when she lacked hope,
the universe emerges on a vast screen.
Behold welcome wonders heretofore...

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A KIND OF KINDLING

I am taking pictures off the wall
Then taking them to the flame
I am burning each, every and all
Food for a fire fueled...

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