Short Equus Poems

beautiful equus -
    refined, graceful, free spirit
    and favourite of kings...

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Not what’s written…
but what’s seen
and felt
—then heard

(Villanova Pennsylvania: February, 2020)...

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Equus Caballus
   Flying hooves cry for freedom
      Why are you pursued?


*Inspired by wild horse roundups.
  A. Green...

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To become an equestrian first-class
  Jerry had to learn to ride on the grass
    He took off the saddle
    The equus skedaddled
  Poor Jerry! He thought 'bareback' meant bare-hass...

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Metaphorically

I`m a working pony
ploughing the oft
turned over the soil of poetry.
On the race track
of pedigree mounts 
                      chasing medals and
                      honours, the  pony looks
                      bewildered 
                      but in the end 
                      we are Equus Ferus
and domesticated....

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Beneath the forelocks shady shroud
 and chestnut lashes low,
A gaze to halt the human heart
This creature can bestow.
Apple breathed indifference and 
Wistful, fearful grace
Can catapult the senses beyond
This earthly place.
Mankind made him subservient
And service he knows well,
Historically, such willingness has
Grazed the gates of hell.
Natures' magnum opus, 
Of evolutions course.
Majestic in his countenance,
Noble, hypnotic Horse....

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The horse was pale,
paler than the light off the mountain
that reflected back in memories long abandoned

Its mane was long,
longer than the struggle to save what 
fortune had vehemently denied me twice

The time was short,
shorter than the flashes of history
that hoofprints trampled in the disappearing snow

The trail was closing,
closing on one last intrepid promise
crying out for life amidst a stampede of death


(Valley Forge Stables: March, 2021)...

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