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
1066 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
His 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
Turning 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
Statues 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
Diana 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
Zee
...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
Gratification
...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
Monster 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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