Palace visit
...A pretty big gate it was...
Overseeing the strict soldiers at the entrance.
Firmly, they stood with heavy weapons.
Stepped inside the picturesque place,
Gentle girls welcomed with gr...
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Categories:
whinnies, dream, extended metaphor, fairy,
Form: Free verse
Horse
...such a happy treat
an apple for special friend
equine contentment
warm winter stable
happy whinnies from within
affectionate nudge
spring will soon be here
uplifting sight horse gr...
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Categories:
whinnies, horse,
Form: Haiku
A Glow In the Woods
...What’s that glowing unusually bright?
Alone in the deep woods at midnight.
Look! It has an illuminating horn and mane
Four graceful legs with a bushy tail.
It’s coat as soft as velvet;
It’s ash ...
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Categories:
whinnies, animal, fantasy, imagination,
Form: Couplet
To What End, a Mule
...One end of a mule is certain to reek
Its alternative end whinnies and shrieks
A mule may let go
So you'd better know
Which end will just speak ~ and which spreads its cheeks...
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Categories:
whinnies, animal, discrimination, giggle, senses,
Form: Limerick
Dancing With the Stars
...The squirrels are dashing here and there.
desperately filling winter larders.
They are still crazy for nuts, after all these years.
Autumn spurs the living and is a rest-home for the dying
it b...
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Categories:
whinnies, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Finnegans Horse Part the First
...Harry Finnegan loved his horse,
Not in the carnal sense of course,
Just as a valued animal friend
Loyal and faithful to the end.
You’d see them every day up town
On Harry’s milk and yoghurt roun...
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Categories:
whinnies, animal, fantasy, friendship, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
World War Ii Poems and Holocaust Poems - Iii - Miklos Radnoti
...World War II Poems and Holocaust Poems - III - Miklos Radnoti
Miklos Radnoti was one of the greatest of the Jewish Holocaust poets. He died on a Nazi death march, shot to death in cold blood, and ...
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Categories:
whinnies, holocaust, murder, race, racism,
Form: Free verse
My Most Popular Poems On the Internet Iii
...My most popular poems on the Internet (III)
A number of my poems and translations have gone viral, according to Google, and some have been copied onto hundreds to thousands of web pages. That’s a ...
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Categories:
whinnies, holocaust, poems, poetry, poets,
Form: Rhyme
Miklos Radnoti Translations of Holocaust Poems
...Postcard 1
by Miklós Radnóti
written August 30, 1944
translated by Michael R. Burch
Out of Bulgaria, the great wild roar of the artillery thunders,
resounds on the mountain ridges, rebounds, ...
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Categories:
whinnies, death, grave, holocaust, horror,
Form: Free verse
Feverish Bees
...Busy bees, honey please,
fuzzy golden brown seas,
displeased feverish breeze.
I've tried so hard to keep
the bees off the three sheep,
but these bees seem to wheeze
on by the trees and tea...
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Categories:
whinnies, fear,
Form: Rhyme
A Stick Horse
...My grandson is running around the cul-de-sac
Riding bareback
On horseback
Yelling giddy up Jack.
Whoa! Jack.
Grandma do you have my backpack?
Can we please have a snack?
A horse head on a long...
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Categories:
whinnies, adventure, appreciation, boy, childhood,
Form: Rhyme
The Blood of Jeb O'Hearn, Part I
...In open Nebraska, eighteen eighty-six,
lived a man named Floyd Belgard.
Only twenty years, he lived with his pa,
a ranching man named Richard.
Richard had moved out this way
about seven long y...
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Categories:
whinnies, death, family, history, strength,
Form: Cowboy Poetry
Farm Life At Dawn
...As dawn starts to streak across the sky
heralding in the new born day.
Feisty rooster already perched on the wall
giving forth with all his might, he crows.
Sleepy hens, ducks and geese scat fo...
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Categories:
whinnies, animal, farm,
Form: Light Verse
Whinny and Spit
...Whinny and Spit
When a man’s young,
the work’s hard
but it pays well
and he can feed
the wife and kids.
Mornings he throws
crates off trucks,
and after lunch he
throws crates again....
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Categories:
whinnies, on work and working
Form: Free verse
Dream Beast
...Proud and gallant he rides in a field
The smell of lavender sprinkles the air
She knows not if the vision before her is real
He sees her sitting on an old stump
Making a wreath of white daisies
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Categories:
whinnies, animals, fantasy, mystery,
Form: Epyllion
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