Unhorsed Poems | Examples


Premium MemberThe Blooming Block

Sitting on the block of the day
Looking into amethyst abyss 
No longer seen as hunter or prey
Disenfranchised like blue cold kiss

Watching the animals fight their wars
Knowing some win some lose
Feeling the wrath of attention whores
Singing their hill street blues

On the block of irrelevant images 
Whatever the dress of the time
Homeless roaming toward suttle scrimmages 
For resources of food courses limited line

Lemon love served in a soul bowl 
From churches so big from no taxes
The church like homeless grow
Seem to me there’s no homeless factoring

We can pay for sports arenas sure
And ship athletes around the world
Leaving disenfranchised potential pure
Of the unhoused blue boys green girls

Sitting on my writer’s block
Not pretending to know wisdoms hacks
Really disenchanted with it all
Maybe my pen can bring me back to black
Categories: unhorsed, america, blue, boy, girl,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberIllicit

Fair maiden was guarded by chaperone
Yet her vision was filled by a gallant
He too wondered how they could be alone
Then he remembered the jousting pageant.

Their encounter would be quite illicit
If his liege lord knew feelings were engaged
Her favours he would take quite explicit
Their feelings acknowledged and wholly assuaged.

Wonderful day sky ethereal blue
Strong-brave knight carried her silken favour
Both knew their precious love was pure and true
Thundering horses fearless to danger.

Their love life doomed maiden in dire distress
Her knight unhorsed, dead, they'll be no caress.

Pixabay Image by: GDJ
Categories: unhorsed, romantic love, sad,
Form: Sonnet


Premium MemberSemi Divorced

She was a less-than-truckload lady
Who’d signed a contract for the long haul
With the interstate driver she married.
But that trucker kept a bogus bill of lading
And a logbook full of lot lizard flings.
So now she’s rolling down the big slab
In her hubby’s bobtail bulldog,
His gooseneck flatbed stranded in the wings.

She’d just renewed her CDL for diesel;
Her unexpected dispatch wasn’t forced.
Her old man was a cracker-headed weasel.
She left him feeling semi divorced.		
Semi divorced, like a rider unhorsed.
She took away his way to keep on trucking.
Semi divorced was the judgement, of course.
He fooled around with fire and got a f*cking.

What you say?

I say, he fooled around with fire and got a f*cking!

We hear dat.
Categories: unhorsed, allegory, divorce,
Form: Lyric

Premium MemberWhat About China

What about China?
When they compel you to stay home,
imposing cloaks on nature's beauty 
as a fellow friend becomes a foe 
and the media unhorsed propaganda 
Can we all all ask 
what about china?


When old Brit's prime minister 
masked tyranny by orders 
confining millions to solitude 
for the fear of his fickle frame 
susceptible to the Wuhan's scourge  
can we all ask, 
what about China?


When confused men make projections 
to feed the greed of the tech giants
or to maintain the cult of the pharmacy 
as the media control our lives 
as we surrender our freedom to fear
can we all ask
what about China?


So fast was the manipulations 
so wide did it spread 
so gullible were we all without reasons 
to ascent to the communist schemes 
who will ask my questions? 
Are they clear of the scourge, and we are not?
Can we all ask
what about China?   


Communism mocks you all 
Perestroika and glasnost seeks revenge 
so while your media makes the rouse 
as ignorant men speculates, 
turning humans to masked animals 
obfuscating nature's beauty 
can we all ask, 
what about China?
Categories: unhorsed, abuse, analogy, angst, anxiety,
Form: Lyric

Premium MemberCurious Epitaphs

Lecherous Luther was wont to grope
He ceased to function at the end of a rope!

Here lies Cletus as stiff as a board
He slipped on the ice and busted his gourd!

Here rests our dear Ruby who failed to duck
She was beaned on her noggin by a hockey puck!

Egbert the boxer took a fatal jab to the jaw
He died on the spot for failing to yaw!

Interred below is Purvis rigid and prone
Alas, he choked on a chicken's bone!

How we lament the loss of Naomi our sister
She was whisked up and away by a Kansas twister!

Dudley kept in shape by regularly joggin'
Alas, he tripped and fell crackin' his noggin!

Phineas was laid to rest for his eternal snooze
He died too young because of his fondness for booze!

Wilfried didn't heed the warning regarding the curve
He met his doom in a Lamborghini for failing to swerve!

While breaking a bronc Tex was abruptly unhorsed
Perhaps the task would've gone better outsourced!
Categories: unhorsed, death, fate, humorous,
Form: Epitaph


The Universal Suffrage of the Dark

Nothingness has caught me by the throat
Tossed me  to the innards of  its prayer
Joan of Arc unhorsed in  a nightmare
Burgundy makes  offers for her coat

When we’re real and know the here and now
Do we entertain our thoughts and dare
To let   perception grow in all its  flair
Lamenting   foreign   insights we won’t know

From the mountain, I see Windermere
I see Coniston and Morecambe Bay
I see sheep and  flat  green fields arrayed
The shadows of the hills , the dread, the fear

Where can we be now on this  our March?
The moon, the sky , the aluminium arc
The universal suffrage of the dark
The  rights  of strangers, the Triumphal Arch
Categories: unhorsed, allegory, allusion, angst, anxiety,
Form: Villanelle
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