Reins Poems

Premium MemberHorse Reins



When I'm working too hard or too fast, I imagine holding horse reins

Heidi Sands

4/11/25

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Categories: reins, imagination, introspection,
Form: Monoku

Premium MemberDrop the Reins and Pour Me a Drink

    The dog days of summer, certainly here
    Every half-hour, another shot of beer
        Too lazy to move
        I’m stuck in a groove
    Glad my new car doesn’t need me to steer
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Categories: reins, car, drink, giggle, technology,
Form: Limerick


Slippery Reins

Once when I was a child
My reins were held by my parents
This pony once led by their rants 

Now that my mustang is old
My reins still slip from my grasp
I go where this beast goes

Divorced from my old mare
I am no longer noosed
Years of service make it wary

When my child returns at half-time
He takes my
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Categories: reins, death, divorce, father, forgiveness,
Form: Free verse

Handing Over the Reins

Handing over the reins is, of course,
Very rarely involving a horse.
It’s about the tradition
Of easing transition
Of power, with no show of force.

The expression is mostly applied
When a leader is stepping aside
And helps he who comes next
Not feel lacking or vexed
With all negative feelings denied.

Yet today, those same reins are held tight,
While the whole world is
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Categories: reins, conflict, power,
Form: Limerick

Untamable

You stare into the abyss, 
And the abyss stares back. 

Take a look into my mind, 
Through every little crack. 

It's dripping from my finger tips, 
It's throbbing in my veins. 

The wild inside my bones, 
Won't stay tied up in your reins. 

If I let my poison pour, 
Let it gush out of my
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Categories: reins, 10th grade, feelings, hope,
Form: Rhyme


Premium MemberLynching Live: Normality Reins

Lynching Live; So What? Trumped-Up Normality Reins

Knee lynching streamed live,
Shadowed death’s source is revealed;
Justice remains blind!

Cameras roll, showing death’s shadowed 
source.
Cameras don’t lie; streaming the truth of
live murder.
Oppressive actions of intentional racialism
unveiled;
Yet, lynched justice remains dangling on the
tree of life.

In oppression, when freedom fires flare-up,
Executive ordered murderers begin shooting;
Revealing despotic authority racialism controls.
With the support
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Categories: reins, analogy, black african american,
Form: Free verse

April Reins

The seasons changed from frigid to thaw.
Deep in my heart my Jesus saw.
A need to find someone to love.
So he plucked an angel from above.

A day or two before rebirth.
He brought her down to me on earth.
We both looked lost in such a daze.
Still trying to understand God's ways.

The season's changed from cool to cold.
Things
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Categories: reins, i love you,
Form: Rhyme

Loose Reins

Will the stars ever align the way they did that day?
When all the heavens opened up to let you come my way.
Where magic spells are cast into the hearts of only two.
And shine a light of golden hue beyond all others view.

A world of lost and lonely space is all that there is left.
To wonder
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Categories: reins, lost love,
Form: Rhyme

Free Reins

Free Reins


					  For  				     plains
					        you the reins are but the 
					   deployed free wherever impatient 
					     your iron shoes lead, and your
					        fiery spirit roams over fields
 
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Categories: reins, freedom, horse,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberReins of Fate

When the reins of fate go slack
And the wicked wind is at your back

And you lift your head and smell the dew
And there's no one near to trouble you

When your eyes are wide
And you're ready to ride

Like a pony in the spring
Like a falcon on the wing

To follow your heart
To make that new start

When you've
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Categories: reins, adventure, fate, freedom, fun,
Form: Rhyme

His Father On High Reins

His Father on High Reins

God said I am that I am and always am
Like loud roaring lion or a little lamb
Enduring elephant who is big and tall
And an ant so small and great waterfall.

Rainbows, stars and mountains real high
Bright fireworks flying on Fourth of July
Writers of poems with their each pen
Lovely eggs at Easter laid
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Categories: reins, inspirational, religious,
Form: Couplet

Grabbing the Reins

We all have certain moments
That define the paths we’ll take
To spur us into action,
Even just for ego’s sake.

The realization that this life,
The only one we’ll know,
Has other options will decide
Which way we choose to go.

We don’t have many years to live
And we must make the choice
That resonates within our soul,
In no one else’s voice.

A sacrifice
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Categories: reins, life,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberHunger Reins

Hunger holds the reins, stimulating or stifling,
driving the plant to bend to the sun and root deep,
herding the roe deer toward unsafe pasturing;
hunger holds the reins.

An emptiness of desire unfed, ends fitful sleep 
as moon-tossed men pull threads of sanity, hiding, 
from deep within a memory of fullness creeps; 
hunger holds the reins.

Mouths and stomachs,
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Categories: reins, introspection,
Form: Rondeau

Seize the Reins

Power,
Just seize the reins,
Impose your agenda,
Tighten your grip on the masses,
Control.
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Categories: reins, political, social,
Form: Cinquain

The Reins of Reluctance

The Reins of Reluctance

Stashed somewhere in the shadows
Of true love and pure romance
He hides his heart and hungers
For the strength to take a chance
He hopes hard for a reason
Tries to find the circumstance
So he can finally tell her
How she has him in a trance
But fear of her rejection
Always hinders his advance
So she only sees him
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Categories: reins, lovefear,
Form: Rhyme

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