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The Centaur Poems - Poems about The Centaur

Was she meant to be broken?

...As far as ethereal creatures are concerned, 
she fell somewhere in between 
a wood nymph—
	fragile and belligerent— 
and a centaur—
	untamable and resilient 

she is a living, breathing juxtap...
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Categories: the centaur, corruption, growth, mental illness,
Form: Free verse

Premium Member1066 at the Imagine Inn

..."Ballinger's pride will be the death of him,"
Was the last muttering of the old cyclops before 
The poison took over. Never trust unicorn bartenders.

Young Gallimay, the town's token centaur,
W...
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Categories: the centaur, fantasy,
Form: Narrative



Premium MemberHis Prophecy

...His Prophecy

I know I don’t know how to read the sky
but intuition tells me what comes true.
A centaur said the stars don’t often lie,
though it is known men and beasts often do.

You wrote t...
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Categories: the centaur, celebration, love, romantic, romantic
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberTurning Point

...Everybody has experienced a turning point
It’s a natural part of life; it’s part of growing up
Life is a sleek roller coaster that goes down and up
There’s a Carrefour which we must turn to a poin...
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Categories: the centaur, america, destiny, extended metaphor,
Form: Rhyme

Brief Mane n Tail shampoo tall tell tale

...Brief Mane n' Tail shampoo tall (tell) tale

Living social amidst 
crime infested urban jungle 
bumping uglies cheek to jowl 
analogous fate being housed in jail
escape room of great outdoors 
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Categories: the centaur, adventure, anger, animal, beach,
Form: Rhyme



Average Size Non Boldface Type Longfellows

...In Times New Roman, I font
to hitch wagon to a star.

Alias Adobe Jenson Albertus Aldus here
wed Alexandria (Algerian, an all around
American Typewriter gal) scattershot
with Antiqua ancestry, ...
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Categories: the centaur, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberStatues of Horses

...Outside drives of dude ranches or of hobby farms
Cast statues of horses bred from Cortez' runaways.
They stand in basket planted ferns to camouflage their hooves,
Or rear atop a barn as though to ...
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Categories: the centaur, america, discrimination, history,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberDiana of the Woods

...Diana asked father to change her into a mighty, formidable centaur.
He was surprised; she would not relent his determined child, his star.
So he sent her to the wizard, who had spells to do most ev...
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Categories: the centaur, myth, nature,
Form: Prose Poetry

Premium MemberZee

...Zee was a tumultuous force to be taken seriously.
Men trembled in their boots when she was on her way.
The battles she fought with her centaur furiously, 
Made other armies quake, run, hide, and p...
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Categories: the centaur, war, woman,
Form: Prose Poetry

Premium MemberGratification

...A Scot had once been quite handsomely built

Now with corona did not fit his kilt 

Ate all he could find

With more on his mind

Became rotund and his manhood did wilt


Isolation made th...
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Categories: the centaur, conflict,
Form: Limerick

Under a Shadowy Moon

...pure and simple
the smile and dimples
the vanity of being wanted

loved and adored,
 such admiration might
 cause one to be ignored

thus should such behavior
 cause others to favor
simply ...
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Categories: the centaur, adventure, betrayal, conflict, creation,
Form: Ballade

Not Camel Toed

...when you said you were
horny i didn't think
meaning on your
head

so far i just thought perhaps
centaur but a horse
of course is not
what

you are beyond the feminine
you are by far not on...
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Categories: the centaur, muse,
Form: I do not know?

Average Size Non Boldface Type Longfellows

...Alias Adobe Jenson Albertus Aldus here
wed Alexandria (Algerian, an all around
American Typewriter gal) scattershot
with Antiqua ancestry, she told me
after I Aster while Aurora Borealis

shimm...
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Categories: the centaur, adventure, allegory, friendship, humorous,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberMonster Mash

...When Frankenstein’s bride was created
The monster was surely elated
He asked her to dance
As he sought romance
To screams his poor ego deflated

Count Dracula surveyed the dance floor
He sough...
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Categories: the centaur, halloween, humorous,
Form: Limerick

Hymn To Pan

...Hymn to Pan

Before Morocco was Roman, you see,
the music of Pan was African jazz.

At the Wednesday night prayer meeting
the percussion discussion of Mingus goes on,
getting' all jumpy and sw...
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Categories: the centaur, fantasy,
Form: Blank verse

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