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Kentucky Mustang

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October gallops in as stolid as a gray mare,
a blunt wind snorts furiously through autumnal trees.
Foliage rattles, but does not fall, it clings still
to green stems.

Appalachian backwoods ha...

Kruse Rhodendendron Reserve

...When fire raged and burned it's roof, sun rays fell to forest floor,
And lit upon scraggly flowers once doomed to bloom no more.
Then unharnessed, like wild horses, the shrubs began to fight.
Each...

A Moment Long Ago

...A moment long ago

The farmer said he needed sand for the fenced-in chicken run
Off we went, hooking the cart to our tiny female horse that had
been so sweet a foal, she was named Dokka (doll)
T...

The Wind and My Heart

..."The wind is the pounding of my heart."

O heart just blow! Do not pound like a hungry hound!
Be breeze! Do not turn into wind and roughly bound!
When you're gentle, you're soothing and caressing...

Landsbyen -Into the North- An Epic Poem 80

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How simple are the circles in which life turns
How strange are its tangled fingers
Through intricate woven tapestry burns
The wonder that yet lingers
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Precious Treasures

...SOMETIMES MOMENTS 

because it was unplanned 
filled the air untainted
music unharnessed

an unadulterated artistic release
life’s precious treasures 

reminds

there’s always a pa...

Sweet Dreams

...My dreams draw from roots of reality,
That grow unharnessed to myth and fantasy.
As they reach hidden heights of the ethereal,
Only to awaken with imagination carefully.

The journeys often lead...

Barn Life

...I miss the barn, the hay loft,
a place to listen to the midday sun
creaking through old wood.,
the small clouds of horse flies
moving as one in their jet-pack bodies,
that rose and fell
  their...

A Second Helping

...Of the dark, offered in the morning cup,
and the chill of salted caramel cream,
spooning after an impervious dream
and clink-clink spell of alarum abrupt,
comes the ceramic to sip, birdsong up.
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Defenseless

...vulnerable shoulders scantily clad
bare of protecting pauldron
without his strong arms encompassing

chest underdressed
short of a shield
without his beating breastplate pressing

helmet unha...

White Horse Hill

...Before  the Roman legions carved a road
This stallion coursed across the chalk ridge brow
Unharnessed, free or by a king bestrode
Like wave traversing grassland free of plough
It still pursues it...

Secret Caverns of Mexico

...My cavern bursts with bittersweet aura
— like globose berries, a cluster of tints.
The secret place — its musk, amidst the flora,
a limited conquest of feet — their prints.

Excitement rocks — I...

The Voice of An Age

...Poetry is different
  when spoken than read

The words more musical
  outside my head

No longer imprisoned
  or held on the page

Their freedom unharnessed
  —the voice of an age

(Villa...

Progress

...Cattle trucks drive highways now
where drovers once held sway
Heavy rigs of chrome and steel
replaced the horse and dray

Gravel tracks of rich red earth
that rambled near and far
Have disappe...

Doublebinding Riddles

...When is physical restraint equipment
also dirty laundry?

When your daughter vomits
all over her school bus transport harness,

When she could have more safely,
and less expensively, traveled
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