Far Rockaway
Though little Suzie was wild about horses, she was too young to ride,
At just five golden years old. Like summer faded, where nature sighed.
Playful Suzie longed to visit Banbury Cross, a place she had not been.
Her older siblings told exciting tales of it, like spring, alive with green!
For Little Suzie's birthday, her parents had given
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Categories:
rocking horse, celebration, child, dream, fantasy,
Form: Couplet
I Never Had a Rocking-Horse
I never had a rocking-horse
Having read books of rich boys having one, I wanted one too.
I found the tail of a rocking horse, at home, I fastened the tail on the gate into the yard.
I sat on the gate swinging through and thro and for a moment
I was Hopalong Cassidy till the hinges broke and
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Categories:
rocking horse, best friend, break up,
Form: Blank verse
The Rocking Horse Cowboy
The Rocking Horse Cowboy
I’m king of the rocking horse--cowboys
I yea ha along with the best
Me finger and thumb
I use as a gun
And ride the top horse in the west
I ride the top horse in the west
He’s sturdy and ready to please
It’s no big deal
When he shares my meal
I feed him fish-fingers and peas
I feed him
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Categories:
rocking horse, childhood, fun,
Form: Light Verse
Wooden Rocking Horse Uk
A rocking horse is a child's toy, usually shaped like a horse and mounted on rockers similar to a rocking chair. Predecessors of the rocking horse may be seen in the rocking cradle, the tilting seats used during the Middle Ages for jousting practice as well as the wheeled hobby horse. The toy in its current form did not appear before the 17th century, though some conflicting sources note medieval manuscripts including references to carved rocking horses, presumably of the toy kind.
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Categories:
rocking horse, writing,
Form: Vaasokht
Rocking Horse Rounds
movement
swaying full hips
circle
circle
avoiding touch
heat stroke
stroke
long, deep, and hard
rhythmic
rhythmic
overflowing
waves rock
rocking
stallion ridden
sleep comes
coming
home lullaby
sweet sound
soundless
dawn breaks the night
cock crows
crows flock
in fertile fields
hybrid
high bred
the son is born
again
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Categories:
rocking horse, birth, , Lullaby,
Form: Verse
Rocking Horse
no one can really understand insanity
it sinks below depths of our humanity
something so small,
a grenade,
atomic mess,
bodies blown to bits
as the gas suffocated earth-
it's that clench,
that gasp-
that knot
you fear.
And it eats you alive the more you endure
such imaginative qualities,
and you sit there unknowingful
uninformed;
while envy develops;
you sat there admitting
in horribly brutal honesty-
but your eyes forgot the
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Categories:
rocking horse, depression, slam,
Form: Blank verse