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)