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The favorite poem for 2007,
Forty-seven Poems for Nico Wind,
is "Bakalite Horses and Riders," by Anne Morin.
 
Whew!  If you have horse poems not seen on this site, please share with me.  As you can see, I've galloped until we are all breathless!  Thanks!  My favorite poem for this year is (please forgive my conceit) my own, "Bakalite Horses and Riders."
 

Bakelite Horses and Riders

 

 

Ridden hard by cowboys and Indians

A few tin soldiers and one molded girl,

My brother’s stable of plastic horses

Race ever forward,

Guided through swaths of rose flowered carpet.

 

They prance and they gallop, tails flying,

Riders thrust forward holding guns and fine bows.

I greatly admire two riderless blacks:

They rear up on two legs, hooves fly,

Refusing to war, O brave rebels they!

 

A golden palomino with four white stockings

Calls out to be stolen; is heard.

I sneak in a ride

While the god’s back is turned.

It is worth the smack.

 

Seriously bowlegged,

One all brown cowboy glares,

Hat pulled down over his face,

As he sits it out on a nearby shelf.

We commiserate.

 

Sometimes when I’m lucky

My brother offers that plucky beige girl

And a horse he’s decided is lame.

I don’t care! We ride, scream wild abandon

To carpet’s end and a sunset of oak floor.

 

Anne Morin

 

 
 

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47 Horse Poems for Nico Wind

 

1.         Aunt Fanny and the Neighbors’ Nags - Walt McDonald 

      

2.         Back in the Saddle Again - Gene Autry

 

3.         Bakalite Horses and Riders - Anne Morin

 

4.         Ballad of the Drover, The - Henry Lawson

 

5.         Bronco Busting, Event #1 - May Swenson

 

6.         Dark Horse - George Harrison

 

7.         Dark Horse - Mason Mila

 

8.         Devil’s Horse - Desperados

 

9.         Do You Recall That Evening? - Alexei Tolstoy

 

10.        Empty Saddles at Christmas – Omar Barker

 

11.        Gaming of the Shrew, The - David Nelson Bradsher

 

12.        Haiku for Donkeys - James Almonde

 

13.        He Bids His Beloved Be At Peace - William Butler Yeats

 

14.        Her Only Love - Herbert Nehrlich

 

15.        Horse - Bernat Kruger

 

16.        Horse and Rider - Anonymous (Horse Poet)

 

17.        Horse and the Rabbit, The - Eila Mahima Jaipaul

 

18.        Horse Character - Cecelia Weir

 

19.        Horse Latitudes – The Doors

 

20.        Horse With No Name, A - Neil Young

 

21.        How to Write the Great American Indian Novel - Sherman Alexie

 

22.        I Will Not Be Broken - Gordon Kennedy, Wayne Kirkpatrick, Tommy Sims

 

23.        Leavin’ That Cowgirl With the Blues - Adam Gregory

 

24.        Lesson in Vengeance - Silvia Plath

 

25.        Lucy, i - William Wordsworth

 

26.        Mahogany China - Jim Dodge

 

27.        Morning - Billy Collins

 

28.        Mother and Sphinx - Eugene Field

 

29.        My Knight in Shining Armor! - S. J. Beresford

30.        Old Man and His Horse and Gig, The - Don Stratford

 

31.        Outlandish Knight, An - Ancient Ballad

 

32.        Poetry - Marianne Moore

 

33.        Powwow Dance - Garry Gottfriedson

 

34.        Raisin, The - Donald Hall

 

35.        Refugio’s Hair - Alberto Rios

 

36.        Saddle, The - Thomas J. Firth

 

37.        Save a Horse (Ride a Cowboy) - Big & Rich

 

38.        Stallions in the Strand - Joyce Maxtone Graham

 

39.        Strawberry Roam (White Oak St.) - Frank James Ryan, Jr.

 

40.        Strawberry Rhone - Robert Browne

 

41.        Sundance - Lindz Williamson

 

42.        Them Broomtail Nags – D. T. Johannsen

 

43.        Two Horses - Mark Strand

 

44.        wal-‘Adiyati - Zeba Khan

 

45.        Who Was That Man?- Paul Bussan

 

46.        Wooden Horse - Suzanne Vega

 

47.        You Have No Horses - (Teton Sioux)

 

 

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