Short Horseplay Poems

“giddyup horsie”
a stick with no legs no tail
two legs prance about

9/29/2018...

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After a long hunt, 
Man’s best friends in fun horseplay, 
While the masters chat…...

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A secretary who submits
To a job with side benefits
Soon tires of horseplay
And calls it a day
With chocolate-fudge banana splits...

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Knickers in a twist make it hard
To hold things up high in regard
A little horseplay
Could blow one away
Just ask the Security Guard...

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Bidets may have a waterspout
So girls can wash the babies out
But water spray
Creates horseplay
If something's fishy, it's not trout!...

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Little Blue Jay, carry me away
To a hammock in the forest shade
In play, away from this gray day
To a bright gay day and fade
Make way so, we can fly un-delayed.

Little Blue Jay, that sweet serenades
Summer ray showers spray.
Carry me away over grass blades
And butterflies in horseplay
Around dandelion's green-way....

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the gossip goes that the lad O'Shea
stands accused of mischief and horseplay
worse ~ caught righthanded at the town café
looking for a quick and easy payday
now he's laying low in some forsaken hideaway
waiting to make a swift getaway
trying his best to outrun judgment day
in his best friend's brand new Chevrolet


AP: Honorable Mention 2025

Posted on March 23, 2025...

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Drinking booze
    Chasing skirts
  What's there to lose
    How can it hurt

  Away from home
    for the very first time
  With room to roam
    on his parents' dime

  Years later, he's clueless
    and down on his luck
  Homeless and shoeless
    but by one thought struck

  He'd lost his way
    ruined his life forever
  Hedonism's not horseplay
    It's simply not very clever...

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As he lays on the floor
I have settled the score
Knife in my hand
Is this what I planned?

Years of pain and torment
Just helped to cement
He tried to out class
But this man’s soon to pass

He looks me in the eye
And he starts to cry
Looking for me to forgive
But I will outlive

As I turn and walk away
He realised this was not horseplay
I have finally settled the score
He now lays dead on the floor...

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I love you more each passing day
 And will even when you’re old and gray.

Smart, charming and witty you are, indeed
 With a sexy booty and your last name Reid.

As we continue on adventures together
 Let’s do them no matter what the weather.

We’ll create memories along the way
 Some that are serious and others horseplay.

Please know that when I look into your eyes
 Your love gives me all my endless highs....

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Friends come; those amiable creatures;
But as offerings, smug-found.
Like bow-tied fawn or pony, proceed
Then to follow us around!

Boys or girls, with what stamps their needs
For such high jinks and horseplay
Are we entrusted. While pledged to
Never set loose; turn away.

That which on our doorstep was first left
To reach out, as it were, for
At the end of a day's free-roaming
Will draw breath there as before....

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When western winds in my ear sing
The memories of rivers bring
A horseman

Cut of rough land and bronze timber
Surefooted walk, lean and limber
Horsepower

I fumbled where he was at ease
Our hands would touch in flirty tease
Of horseplay

Through golden grass, me and my guy
Galloping free to chase the sky
On horseback

Now, in my city life, I keep
Over my bed, to grace my sleep
One horseshoe.

5/09/20

For "Compounding the Verse" contest
Sponsor: Joseph May...

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