Horses Poems

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Horses On The Camargue
by Roy Campbell

In the grey wastes of dread,
The haunt of shattered gulls where nothing moves
But in a shroud of silence like the dead,
I heard a sudden harmony of hooves,
And, turning, saw afar
A hundred snowy horses unconfined,
The silver runaways of Neptune's car
Racing, spray-curled, like waves before the wind.
Sons of the Mistral, fleet
As him with whose strong gusts they love to flee,

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All Your Horses
by Kay Ryan

Say when rain
cannot make
you more wet
or a certain
thought can't
deepen and yet
you think it again:
you have lost
count. A larger
amount is

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Love And Strange Horses—intima'? -
by Nathalie Handal

One hundred breaths split the air
as I lean
on the only pine tree I find.
It's early or late, it's breezy or hot.
The fields are dry. Summer is near.
The horses are everywhere,
strangely galloping a dream,
but I can't remember
how to call them,
so I stand back, watch them pass.

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She Had Some Horses
by Joy Harjo

She had horses who were bodies of sand.
She had horses who were maps drawn of blood.
She had horses who were skins of ocean water.
She had horses who were the blue air of sky.
She had horses who were fur and teeth.
She had horses who were clay and would break.
She had horses who were splintered red cliff.

She had some horses.


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Recent Horses Poems
All Your Horses
by Kay Ryan

Say when rain
cannot make
you more wet
or a certain
thought can't
deepen and yet
you think it again:
you have lost
count. A larger
amount is

......

Continue reading
She Had Some Horses
by Joy Harjo

She had horses who were bodies of sand.
She had horses who were maps drawn of blood.
She had horses who were skins of ocean water.
She had horses who were the blue air of sky.
She had horses who were fur and teeth.
She had horses who were clay and would break.
She had horses who were splintered red cliff.

She had some horses.


......

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Love And Strange Horses—intima'? -
by Nathalie Handal

One hundred breaths split the air
as I lean
on the only pine tree I find.
It's early or late, it's breezy or hot.
The fields are dry. Summer is near.
The horses are everywhere,
strangely galloping a dream,
but I can't remember
how to call them,
so I stand back, watch them pass.

......

Continue reading
Horses On The Camargue
by Roy Campbell

In the grey wastes of dread,
The haunt of shattered gulls where nothing moves
But in a shroud of silence like the dead,
I heard a sudden harmony of hooves,
And, turning, saw afar
A hundred snowy horses unconfined,
The silver runaways of Neptune's car
Racing, spray-curled, like waves before the wind.
Sons of the Mistral, fleet
As him with whose strong gusts they love to flee,

......

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Popular Famous Poets about Horses
  • Roy Campbell
    Roy Campbell (1 poems about Horses)
    1901 - 1957 / Durban, Colony of Natal (now in South Africa)
  • Nathalie Handal
    Nathalie Handal (1 poems about Horses)
    1969 / French / Palestinian / American
  •  Joy Harjo
    Joy Harjo (1 poems about Horses)
  • Kay Ryan
    Kay Ryan (1 poems about Horses)
    September 21, 1945 / San Jose, California