Short Horned Poems

Lady Godiva
Rides the horned creature naked
Soaring through the clouds...

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Beautiful, vicious 
Stares me down with amber eyes
Tiger-like bold eyes...

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short pirate braying
one-horned horse falls apart
the tail chases ghosts...

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barren palisade
horned rams prance rocky redoubt
wolf pack scales rampart...

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patient great horned owl
night world's silent predator
death arrives swiftly...

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Sitting by the Lake
I call upon the Horned one
I whisper gently
Where have you gone?...

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tree branches glisten
 with gems of pearly snowflakes
 horned owl looks on

 1-14-2021...

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at night
when cats stalk
and horned owls scream ~ 
hibernating dormice
slumber

27.09.19...

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Pegasus

White horned horse flies high;
He spreads his wings wide to fly,
Zeus is his captain....

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frosty howling gale 
                hail stones roll off horned scutes 
                lightning strikes the heart...

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moonlit autumn night
shrills echo from the treetops ~
a great horned owl prowls

10/16/2021

Contest: Owl Haiku Contest
Sponsor: Robert James Liguori...

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The short-horned grasshoppers are here.
Not a great morn to walk with the deer.
They came in a form
A gigantic swarm.
Taunting, laughing, ready to jeer....

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De De De De Do Doop
Yes it’s a great song
But you can only hear it if
You’re a horned owl or toad
And you can spin your head
Around like me De De De De De...

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We won't ever be anybody's red
caped tin horned hero. 
       We seem local and suburban.
                    All pleased.

Published in Poetry Almanac - Summer 1974...

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Green Horned Rhino

Have you seen the Green Horned Rhino? 
A creature so scarce and so rare. 
We think he’s living in Norwich, 
Dressed as a Hippo, with curly pink hair...

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Step right up unto the latest craze
Doe bank baby trying to escape 
Big buck's double digit haze ?
A phenom horned in sound
Sweeping across its banks
Her plastic hobo clowns....

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phæsporia 
in cold strip light
sacred arrows
turned against 
my golden horned deer
the reaching november 
hands that hold
the flowery 
fallen charioteer
shattered and strained 
by fools 
released
by a single tear...

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hooting from oak stand
great horned owl signaling clear
small critters fleeing

written October 14, 2021
especially for "Owl Haiku" Poetry Contest
sponsored by Robert James Liguori
[syllables checked by PS]...

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Lake ice cracks with cold
breath hangs in frozen silence
stars sparkle above.

Great horned owls hoot
bitter February night
owlets to follow.

On this frigid night,
may we share as one this fire
that burns within us?...

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led through the strangest valley
and forest this eve
with snickering, horned, little
phosphoresent faries

carried by cellulose
to my cornea

wicked and vile winged creatures
swept around my vicera until
I remembered it was just a 
movie....

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I saw a large shadow in the water
Something ominous coming from up high
She hit the water with a large splash
There was a bit of a battle but not much
Horned owl took off holding her catch
Her wingspan was enormous
The catfish stopped squirming...

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Our love.
A rhapsody,
Pinwheel of magic....
Your golden horned, soft laughter
    Spinning
         Prancing
               Turning,
       Sliding
Into my world of candy dreams!
Dazzled, 
My heart sighs for you!
My love a rhapsodizing imbalance!

Cynthia...

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Priest Who Would Like To Paint

We hired a priest who would want to paint;
So he had shot selfie of himself as a saint,
And then he did appear,
To be long horned steer,
When parish saw him they started to faint.

Jim Horn

Another poem for you poetry lovers....

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animals were on a mission, sent to help the world.
Dogs thought it up, invited cats. Birds heard and horned in.
We looked like Noah’s ark on a bike, rushing to save someone.
Trouble is, no one remembered who we were to save.
Enthusiastic rescuers without listening ears...

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Does green tea reduce cell damage
Do losers always lose
Does the whom from whom does the bell toll for
change the who
Does the unicorn make you wonder
why did the romans have a word
for one horned.
Words dead or lost
and births of the prast
to perceive something new...

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