Short Saddled Poems

saddled with an avalanche of troubles, the soul craves solace


July 20, 2023....

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Sun rose like Apricot jam..

                                     saddled in Cobalt Blue horizon clouds.....

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Inspired by Marc Chagall painting "Birthday (1915)"


acrobatic saddled lip lock, birthday bouquet transfixed upright awed...

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we saddled up
wild bronco clouds
riding them high and
riding them proud
this spiritual journey
through the great
grandfather's sky...

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Susan Lawrence saddled her horse
(a Pegasus who flew off course)
The stars and the moon
Lit up the lagoon
Reflecting a greater life force...

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There was a fat pickrel from Perth.
Saddled with little self worth.
He befriended a perch.
Who lived bye a birch.
Then ate him ,increasing his girth....

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I am torn and worn,
Cracks and crevices cloaked,
Courage wearing thin,
Hope, listless and frail,
Saddled with unwavering troubles,
In sequential order....

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Rattling  hocks
And that mane flowing free
Stirrups adangle 
You danced around me
Wrapped up in reins
And enraptured it's true
It was a cinch I'd be saddled with you...

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I am saddled with a heavy burden
The Pharisees didn't see it
The Sadducees only made me sadder
Now I know I am surrounded by hypocrites

 It was written on the 14th of July, 2024...

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Saddled with this task
burden
beast
of razor colour scheme
years of crumbled paint
the dust in lungs
a poisoned dream
still clinging
holding breath
to clear the air
between the stitches of a seam...

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Walk in this skin,
Be saddled by these troubles,
Tunnel through this night,
Encounter these monsters,
Then you’ll understand me,
Then you’ll feel my pains,
Then you’ll know who I‘m afraid that I am.


September 23, 2024.
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If each peppercorn was a life,
each is saddled in surrender
of shunless damnation.
They dwell in anguish--
death row prisoners.
They huddle together
awaiting torsion
as the grinder rends
the season from their body.
All that remains is dust
milled over an entrée....

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She sits furlong
the race has been won
saddled on the mountain top
why equate the drilled
laying like searchlight beams

She waits for the birman
with wings on her mind
straight laced 
she race you for fun
Venus on the edge
shared shies
she unfathom you



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saddled burden of rude judgmental air,
lips soften, sprinkling humane affection.
holding hands, a heart unfolds compassion,
torrid tears shine, in oasis of care.


13th March 2020
10 syllables per line as counted in howmanysyllables
Sponsor	charles messina
Contest Name	Kind Ink |...

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For all you folks new in the saddle
There's one thing I must say
Don't let yourself get all in a rattled
Just dust off those N/A's
If I've learned one thing out on the prairie 
It's, never to look back
And stay saddled up with pen in your hand
When the coyotes come to attack

Yeeeeee-hawwwwww !...

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C  casually stands next to his saddled horse
O  openly he weeps (so) full of his remorse
W  what is left of pale pink running rose that grew
B   blood floods from thorn pricks he's getting his due
O   oh! tangled web with his love he did weave
Y   yesterday she discovered all his cowboy lies believed...

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You saddled the moon 
so we could ride
In fields of clover
and crimson tides

You played the chords
so we could dance
Close together 
a second chance

You sang the lyrics
I wanted to hear
Each beat of you heart
kept me near

You wrote the words
the meaning unclear
I dreamed it all
it disappeared...

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...for Sable


In clouds of purest gossamer
she floats in perfect bliss,
earthly woes behind her
she is blessed with heaven's kiss.

Remembered here by everyone,
her heart a lightning rod,
saddled up and ready, now
she's galloping with God...


Note: for a dear friend
         on another site
         we just lost......

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I’m retired now.  These days I’ve got it made. 
I sit on my porch and drink lemonade. 
You will never see my nerves get rattled,
Or my disposition become embattled,
No, not even if my conscience tattled.
With these concerns, I am never saddled. 
My personal assistant writes the screamin’s 
Of my staff of personal inner demons....

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...Then, as expected, came a post-rider,
with a new letter he had to deliver:
A rancher facing evils not of this Earth,
so Sol saddled up, double-checked the girth.

Then rode out northwards in the morning dim,
never again would Victorville see him,
but this was God’s price for things he had done,
fighting monsters to earn his redemption....

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Evil rode as they passed us by
And we did not look them in the eye
What was needed was strength and faith 
We knew then the fight would take place

So we saddled up and met the battle 
Where some of us would hear the death rattle
But soldier on we did and knew the score
Once the battle was joined death was at the door.

© Paul Warren Poetry...

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Mountain View 

With the ascended smoke
the sky was gloomy
Darkened times 
creeping up
stealing the era
Killing the resolve 
rhyming another song
Playing discordant tunes 
ragging the future of the now
saddled with a tinted view
The vision becomes blurry 
as the visionaries 
became soulless hordes
taking chunks of yesterday
From the hopes of today 
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Broken



Like a wild stallion,
that will not be saddled, spitting the bit,
I bucked and threw every rider
galloping toward the infinite open...

With nostrils flaring, mane blowing,
it was a brief sprint of being harnessed to no one;
Until, as all dreams, I was stopped at the fence
only to be led back, by a lead, bridled and broken.
 



John Thomas Tansey...

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Listen to poem:

i shed these tears of blue knowing
deep down for years you were unhappy
saddled with the bitterness of life
but now your soul has been set free

death came a long lost friend
into the night willingly you followed
you’re in a better place
your soul can now soar free



AP: Honorable Mention 2021

Posted on January 27, 2021
for Anni now up in heaven with her Carl...

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The Empty Man


Saddled with the darkened years
Fogged with broken thoughts
Chasing crooked spirits
Drenched in ethereal fire
Deadened to raging emotions
Sentenced to a deafened silence
Dreading the coming phase
Of fleeting victory and bleeding hearts
Thus, seeping the dredge
Of frothing suffering
He strides along
With the brevity of thoughts
Floating to a hollow future
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