48 HORSE POEMS FOR NICO WIND

 

1.         An Imagined Horse Disguised as a Young Girl – Beth Anstandig

 

2.         At the Children’s Violin Concert – Susan Cataldo

 

3.         Black Horse and the Cherry Tree – K.T. Tunstall

 

4.         Blue Horses Rush In (for Chamisa Bah Edmo) – Luci Tapahonso (Navajo)

 

5.         Circus, The; Or One View Of It – Theodore Spencer

 

6.         Day Mares – Wilhelmina Stitch

 

7.         Fly-Away Horse, The – Eugene Field

 

8.         For What Binds Us – Jane Hirshfield

 

9.         Four Fiery Steeds Impatient of the Rein – William Wordsworth

 

10.       Four Mares – Katherine Fallon

 

11.       Gallop Apace . . . – from Romeo & Juliet (III, 2) – William Shakespeare

 

12.       Ghost Horse Legend – Nancy J. Bailey

 

13.       He Knows – Anonymous

 

14.       Headless Horseman of Cuba, The – Margarita Engle

 

15.       He’s the colour of the nutmeg. . . from Henry V (III, 7) – William Shakespeare

 

16.       Horses, The – Ted Hughes

 

17.       Horses and Men in Rain – Carl Sandburg

 

18.       Horses in the Air – Jorge Guillen

 

19.       Hoss, The – James Riley Whitcomb

 

20.       How the Old Horse Won the Bet – Oliver Wendell Holmes

 

21.       I Bet – Terrell Adsit Neuage

 

22.       In Praise of the Horse – Ronald Duncan

 

23.       Live Like Horses – Lyrics: Bernie Taupin, artists Elton John & Luciano Pavarotti

 

24.       Love Chase, The (from) – James Sheridan Knowles

 

25.       Man and His Horse, The – Anne Finch, Countess of Winchelsea (1661-1720)

 

26.       My Horse – Bonnie Lewis

 

27.       Ocean Stallions – B. J. Olvera

 

28.       Palomino Stallion, The – Alden Nowlan

 

29.       Perspective – Maxine Kumin

 

30.       Poet Goes to Indiana, The – Mary Oliver

 

31.       Sam’s Race Horse – Marriott Edgar

 

32.       Saturday Matinee – Mary Crow

 

33.       Seahorse – Peter Cooper

 

34.       Seahorse Roundup – Paul D. Haemig

 

35.       Sheridan’s Ride – Thomas Buchanan Read (1822-72)

 

36.       Sleigh-Bells, The – Susanna Moodie

 

37.       Somewhere in Time’s Own Space – Stanley (Cap) Harrison

 

38.       Spring Evening on Blind Mountain – Louise Erdrich

 

39.       Statues in the Park – Billy Collins

 

40.       Team of Workhorses, The – Robert Bly

 

41.       Tennessee Stud – Jimmy Driftwood

 

42.       To the Appaloosa – Mary Lynn Walker

 

43.       Twenty-Fourth Poem About Horses, A – John Peck

 

44.       Weakness – Alden Nowles

 

45.       When I am Old – Jessica (Last Name Unknown)

 

46.       Wild Mares – Ogden McGahan

 

47.       Windhorse – Suzanne Rancourt (Abenaki/Montaignes

 

48.       Winter Sun – Matsuo Basho (trans. Davis Landis Barnhill)