I need some poems about horses for my newsletter. Nothing sappy. I actually prefer old poems by well-known authors, but will gladly read others. This poem will run alongside the obituary for the mare we lost in June, so I need something dignified, not weepy. Thanks.

-- Shannon at Grateful Acres Animal Sanctuary (gratacres@aol.com), August 14, 2001

Answers

There's probably something in 'The Black Riders' by Stephen Crane

-- Robt. Rutherford (insomniac@deathsdoor.com), August 14, 2001.

Try a google search - I searched on "horse poem". Comes up with many many. There's a horse memorial poem on the first page, but you could spend a while looking through at least several pages.

-- Don Armstrong (darmst@yahoo.com.au), August 14, 2001.

Up and down and back and forth, horses' tails go switching.

Back and forth and round and round, horses' sides go twitching.

Horses do a lot of work to keep themselves from itching.

Yeah, you got it; sappy.

-- daffodyllady (daffodyllady@yahoo.com), August 14, 2001.

My mother taught me this poem when I was a tiny girl. Not true of course white feet being softer than black is an old wive's tale.

One white foot- buy a horse; Two white feet- try a horse; Three white feet- deny a horse; Four white feet and a white nose take off his hide and throw it to the crows.

The outside of a horse is good for the inside of a man. - Winston Churchill

Look over the struggle for freedom Trace your present day strength to its source You'll find that a man's pathway to glory Is strewn with the bones of a horse. --Anonymous

Stacy in NY

-- Stacy Rohan (KincoraFarm@aol.com), August 15, 2001.