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Death Horses Poems

These Death Horses poems are examples of Horses poems about Death. These are the best examples of Horses Death poems written by international poets.


Hunger and Horses
Hunger and horses

Spring 1945
A horse collapsed
In the street
Of hunger.
Skinny men in black
From doorways came.
Long knives
Tore into
Shivering flesh.
Hyenas.
A shot fired
The horse was dead
The hyenas 
Would return.
An...

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© Jan Hansen  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: horses, abuse, class, death,



Premium Member Humanity of Horses
My internal experience of depression
today shames
external ecology of elation,
all I might know as warm extended family
of profoundly peaceful impressions
still bare surviving
at end of this slow-fading...

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Categories: horses, anti bullying, depression, health,

Tower of the Blue Horses
(after Franz Marc)

Four of stained glass and stars
all leftglance beyond ratio or air,
thin as a tissue but strong

as a pastel visa; fated curves
guide your hand,...

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Categories: horses, angst, anxiety, art, death,

Premium Member Wild Horses
Wild Horses

I want wild horses and my funeral bright
prancing in hooves shod in solid gold
Even wilder horses at my grave site
I beg this end when...

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Categories: horses, appreciation, art, death, horse,

Wild Horses Running Free
Wild horses running free

                     ...

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Categories: horses, corruption, crazy, death, french,



Suicide By White Horses
Strong white riders saddled atop tempestuous verdant freckles,
roil like flecks of spittle across a horses hard ridden muzzle.
The charging equine manes of the waves thrash...

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Categories: horses, death, forgiveness, horse, ocean,

Premium Member Lest We Forget the Horses
Watching old newsreels sadness washes over me 

Highstepping horses, gentle eyes transformed in fear 
valiantly charging under men that could not yield

Amid the noise of...

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Categories: horses, appreciation, eulogy, freedom, history,

Premium Member They Hang Horses, Don'T They
Once, a strange structure appeared in a barn yard
difficult not to  notice, a scaffold to hang horses
for throwing their masters
Dumb and never protesting they...

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Categories: horses, analogy, cute, death, horse,

They Shoot Horses, Don'T They?
To  tame a horse in freezing winter 

One plays a childish "hide and seek" 

Caress its mane with future spring 

and kiss the hazel...

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Categories: horses, animals, death, nostalgiahorse,

Jamestown 1607=they Ate Their Horses, Dogs, Cats and Rats
JAMESTOWN
1607 



Four hundred years ago high-born Brits sailed to America
Seeking fast fortunes, adventure and fame.
Many would never endure their first year here
Cultivating, foraging, and hunting...

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© Tom Zart  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: horses, adventure, death, faith, history,

Overwhelming Horses
Strong, muscular, moving in sync,
like an ocean of lavender their bodies move.
Waves of clapping hooves consistently beating
the earth like thunder beats the sky.
This is how...

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Categories: horses, angst, animals, devotion, happiness,

Horses Are Red
Momma and daddy never said
what comes of the lives that they've led
but in their dreams i bet things were not this way
not this mess where...

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© John Allen  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: horses, death, philosophy, sad, time,


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