NICO’S BIRTHDAY HORSE POEMS

CONTENTS: 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007,  2008, 2009 and 2010

1.         40,000 – Charles Bukowski

2.         Absence – Billy Collins

3.         Alex – Mary Oliver

4.         All Through the Rains – Gary Snider

5.         All in Green Went My Love Riding – e. e. Cummings

6.         After Twenty Years – Abigail Scott Duniway

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

8.         Anonymous Drawing – Donald Justice

9.         Appaloosa Mare, The – Hilma (Volcano) Volk

10.       Approaching War, The – Robert Bly

11.       At Galway Races – William Butler Yeats

12.       At Grass – Philip Larkin

13.       At Navajo Monument Valley Tribal School – Sherman Alexie

14.       At Night – Jane Hirshfield

15.       At the Children’s Violin Concert

16.       Atavistic – Irene Kinney

17.       August 1972 – Adrienne Rich

18.       Aunt Fanny and the Neighbors’ Nags – Walt McDonald

19.       Back in the Saddle Again – Gene Autry

20.       Bakalite Horses and Riders – Anne Morin

21.       Ballad of M.T. Nutt and His Dog, The – Andrew Barton Paterson

22.       Ballad of the Driver, The – Henry Lawson

23.       bells of the Cherokee ponies, the – d.a. levy

24.       Before you Leave – Ai

25.       Beneath a Portrait of a Horse – Anne Hanley

26.       Billy the Kid – N. Scott Momaday

27.       Birth of the Foal – Ferenc Juhasz

28.       Black Beauty – Judith Barrington

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

30.       Blessing, A – James Wright

31.       Blind Horses, The – Ed Lahey

32.       Blue Cloud Rides Horses – Edgar Silex

33.       Blue Horses – Ed Roberson

34.       Blue Horses – West Winds – Nita Ednrezze-Danielson

35.       Blue Horses Rush In – Luci Tapahonso (Navaho)

36.       Boot and Saddle – Robert Browning

37.       Boy, The – Rainer Maria Rilke

38.       Boy Riding Forward Backward – Robert Francis

39.       Bronco Busting, Event #1 – May Swenson

40.       Bronco That Would Not Be Broken, The – Vachel Lindsay

41.       Bronzes – Carl Sandburg

42.       Brooks Too Wide… –  Pam Brown

43.       Brumby’s Run – A. B. “Banjo” Paterson

44.       Bucked – Linda McCarriston

45.       Buffalo Bill – Carl Sandburg

46.       Buffalo Bill’s Defunct – e. e. Cummings

47.       Burial of the Minnisink – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

48.       Carousel – Dennis McBride

49.       Celebration: Birth of a Colt – Linda Hogan

50.       Centaur, The – May Swenson

51.       Circus; or One View of It, The – Theodore Spencer

52.       Circus-Postered Barn, The – Elizabeth Coatsworth

53.       Cirque d’Hiver – Elizabeth Bishop

54.       Clip Clop (Ode to Equus) – Barns and Barns

55.       Comanche (The Brave Horse) – John David

56.       Cowboy’s Faith, The (No Horses in Heaven) – Unknown

58.       Cuttin’ Horse – Al Mehl

59.       Dandy Darling – B. K. England

60.       Daniel Webster’s Horses – Elizabeth Coatsworth

61.       Dark Horse – Karen Braucher

62.       Dark Horse – George Harrison

63.       Dark Horse – Mason Mila

64.       Day Mares – Wilhelmina Stitch

65.       Dead Have Nothing to Lose by Telling the Truth, The – Marvin Bell

66.       Death of an Old Carriage Horse – George Moses Horton

67.       Demons – Alexander Pushkin

68.       Destiny’s Spell – Nico Wind Cordova

69.       Devil’s Horse – Desperados

70.       Do You Recall That Evening? – Alexei Tolstoy

71.       Don’t Let That Horse Eat That Violin – Lawrence Ferlinghetti

72.       Dream, The – Louise Bogan

73.       Dreamhorse – e. e. Cummings

74.       Dream Horses – Nancy Willard

75.       Dreams of Wild Horses – Sherry Baumann

76.       Dropped Into the Ether Acre – Emily Dickinson

77.       Eagles and Horses – John Denver and Joe Henry

78.       Earth and I Gave You Turquoise – N. Scott Momaday

79.       Empty Nest – B. K. England

80.       Empty Saddles at Christmas – Omar Barker

81.       Errata – Charles Simac

82.       Evening is Tranquil, and Dawn is a Thousand Miles Away, The – Charles Wright

83.       Excrement Poem – Maxine Kumin

84.       Eye-mote, The – Silvia Platt

85.       Fable for Poets – Thomas McGrath

86.       Face of the Horse, The – Nikolai Alekseevich Zabolotsky

87.       Falling Stars – Raner Maria Rilke

88.       Farewell – Emily Dickinson

89.       Fast Rode the Knight – Stephen Crane

90.       Fields, The – W.S. Merwin

91.       First Lesson – James Tate

92.       Fly-Away Horse, The – Eugene Field

93.       Flyin’ Outlaw, The – Curley Fletcher

94.       Follower – Seamus Heaney

95.       For My Daughter on Her Twenty-First Birthday – Ellen Bass

96.       For the Wild Ones – Bobbi Royle

97.       For What Binds Us – Jane Hirshfield

99.       Former Barn Lot – Mark Van Doren

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

101.     Four Mares – Katherine Fallon

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

103.     Gaming of the Shrew, The – David Nelson Bradsher

104.     Ghost Horse Legend – Nancy J. Bailey

105.     girl (three) and the black horse – Rg Gregory

106.     Gourd Dancer, The – N. Scott Momaday

107.     Great Aso – Tatsuji Mohoshi

108.     Haiku for Donkeys – James Almonde

109.     Handling the Colt – Una Auld

110.     Hard Foaling – Michael List

111.     Harvest – Judith Barrington

112.     Harvest Song – Jean Toomer

113.     Hay for the Horses – Gary Snider

114.     He Bids His Beloved Be At Peace – William Butler Yeats

115.     He Knows - Anonymous

116.     Her Only Love – Herbert Nehrlich

117.     Headless Horseman of Cuba, The – Margarita Engle

118.     Here’s Your Mule – Anonymous

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

120.     Highwayman, The – Alfred Noyes

121.     Hooves of the Horses – Will H. Ogilvie

122.     Horse – John Donne

123.     Horse – Louise Gluck

124.     Horse – Gary Holthaus

125.     Horse – Bernat Kruger

126.     Horse – Anne Sexton

127.     Horse, The – Ronald Duncan

128.     Horse, The – W. S. Merwin

129.     Horse, The – James Wright

130.     Horse, The – William Carolos Williams

131.     Horse and Rider – Anonymous (Horse Poet)

132.     Horse and the Rabbit, The – Eila Mahima Jaipaul

133.     Horse Character

134.     Horse Dance – Mark Van Doren

135.     Horse From Hell, The – Erica Mann Jong

136.     Horse Fly, A – Liam Wilkerson

137.     Horse in Amsterdam, after Rembrandt – Lawrence Ferlinghetti

138.     Horse Latitudes – The Doors

139.     Horse Named Bill, A – Anonymous

140.     Horse Pavillion, The – Elizabeth Harvor

141.     Horse Show – William Carlos Williams

142.     Horse That Died of Shame, The – N. Scott Momaday

143.     Horse Whisperer, The – Susan Dane

144.     Horse With No Name, A – Neil Young

145.     Horse’s Prayer, A – Anonymous

146.     Horseplay – Kathryn Ehlers

147.     Horses – Moshe Benarroch

148.     Horses – Henri Cole

149.     Horses – David Ferry

150.     Horses – Annalynn Hammond

151.     Horses – Paul Muldoon

152.     Horses – Pablo Neruda

153.     Horses – Susan Utting

154.     Horses – Robert Winner

155.     Horses, The (Excerpt) – Edwin Muir

156.     Horses, The – Ted Hughes

157.     Horses, The – Kenny Loggins

158.     Horses, The – Edwin Muir

159.     Horses, The – Ingrid Swanberg

160.     Horses and Men in Rain – Carl Sandburg

161.     Horses in the Air – Jorge Guillen

162.     Horses of the Sea, The – Christina Rossetti

163.     Horses on the Camargue – Roy Campbell

164.     Hoss, The – James Riley Whitcomb

165.     How many schemes may die – Emily Dickinson

166.     How They Brought the Good News… – Robert Browning

167.     How to Write the Great American Indian Novel – Sherman Alexie

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

169.     Hunting Morning, A – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

170.     Hunting Song – Donald Finkel

171.     Hush-a-by: All the Pretty Little Horses – US Folk Song

172.     I Bet – Terrell Adsit Neuage

173.     I Had Gone Broke – J. V. Cunningham

174.     I Once Knew A Man – Lucille Clifton

175.     I Ride an Old Paint – Cowboy Song

176.     I Will Not Be Broken – Gordon Kennedy, Wayne Kirkpatrick, Tommy Sims

177.     I Would Steal Horses, Sherman Alexie

178.     Ice Horses – Joy Harjo

179.     If One Induces… – Xenophon

180.     If Only I Had Known – Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy

181.     Imperiously He Leaps (from Venus and Adonis) – William Shakespeare

182.     In Fear of Harvests – James Wright

183.     In Memory of the Horse David, Who Ate One of My Poems – James Wright

184.     In Praise of the Horse – Ronald Duncan

185.     Iron Horse of Winter – Patrick Boyd

186.     James Joyce Goes for a Gallop – Mary Kennan Herbert

187.     Jingle Bells (One-Horse Open Sleigh) – James Lord Pierpont

188.     Just Horsing Around – Grandpa Tucker

189.     Last Week – Andrew Barton Paterson

190.     Leavin’ That Cowgirl With the Blues – Adam Gregory

191.     Lesson in Vengeance – Silvia Plath

192.     Life that tied too tight escapes, The – Emily Dickinson

193.     Light Morning of the Soul – Tamara Jenkinson

194.     Lippinzaner, The – Edvard Kochek

195.     listen – e. e. cummings

196.     Listen – Debra Coppinger Hill

197.     Little Perspective, A – Willis Lamm

198.     Live Like Horses – Bernie Taupin (lyrics); Elton John & Luciano Pavarotti (music)

199.     Living Without Horses – Judith Barrington

200.     Long Race, The – Edwin Arlington Robinson

201.     Looking for My Horse – Werner Klokow

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

203.     Love Poem –Donald Hall

204.     Lucy, i – William Wordsworth

205.     Lying in a Hammock . . . – James Wright

206.     Madam and Her Madam – Langston Hughes

207.     Madrigal Written Winter – Pablo Neruda

208.     Magogany China – Jim Dodge

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

210.     Man From Snowy River, The – Banjo Paterson

211.     Mare, The – Vernon Watkins

212.     Matins – Andrease Embiricos

213.     May 1968 – Sharon Olds

214.     Mazeppa (from) – Lord Byron

215.     Medallion – Michael Heffernan

216.     Medicine of Yellow Horse, The – Summer Breeze

217.     Melodious Medicine – Snowqueen (online pseudonym)

218.     Merry Go Round – David Threadgold

219.     Merry-Go-Round – Langston Hughes

220.     Meter – Frank Halliwell

221.     Miles Keogh’s Horse – John Hay

222.     Mind of a Woman and Two Other Things, The – M. D. Dinesh Nair

223.     Moment at Dusk, A – Kimberly Freeman

224.     Montoya – Nick Ripatrazone

225.     Morning – Billy Collins

226.     Morning Once More – Joy Harjo

227.     Morning Travel – Kuan Hsiu

228.     Morning Work-out – Babette Deutsch

229.     Mr. Ed – Ray Evans and Jay Livingston

230.     Mother and Sphinx – Eugene Field

231.     Muddy Horses Shield – N. Scott Momaday

232.     Mustang Sally – Patricia Fritsche

233.     My Knight in Shining Armor! – S. J. Beresford

234.     My Koan Waits – Virginia Hamilton Adair

235.     My Horse – Bonnie Lewis

236.     Myth, The – Pattiann Rogers

237.     Names of Horses – Donald Hall

238.     Navajo: The War God’s Horse Song – Tall Kiaah’ni

239.     Night Clouds – Amy Lowell

240.     Nine Horses – Billy Collins

241.     No. 6 – Charles Bukowski

242.     Ocean Stallions – B. J. Olvera

243.     Ode to Equus – Kimberly Freeman

244.     Of Horses and Flies – Herbert Nehrlich

245.     Old Lilacs – Ted Kooser

246.     Old Brown Horse, The – W. K. Holmes

247.     Old Man and His Horse and Gig, The – Don Stratford

248.     Old Whim Horse, The – Edward Dyson

249.     On a Clergyman’s Horse Biting Him – Anonymous

250.     On Passing Time and Being Neurotic – arundhati sinha

251.     On the Difficulty of Learning Chinese – Cliff Yates

252.     On the Wagon – Adrien Stoutenburg

253.     One Man Watches a Horse Race – Wendy Battin

254.     One Trick Pony – Nelly Furdado

255.     Open Field – Maria A. Wickwire

256.     Other Nations, Kate Barnes

257.     Out of Sight – Andrew Barton Paterson

258.     Out of the Earth – Teton Sioux Chant

259.     Outlandish Knight, An – Ancient Ballad

260.     Outside Fargo, North Dakota – James Wright

261.     Pale Horse – Robert Wynne

262.     Palomino Stallion, The – Alden Nowlan

263.     Parable – Richard Wilbur

264.     Parnassus – Kenneth Rosen

265.     Pegasus in Pound – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

266.     Peggy – C. K. Williams

267.     Perspective – Maxine Kumin

268.     Phantom Horsewoman, The – Thomas Hardy

269.     Plainview: 2 – N. Scott Momaday

270.     Plowboy – Carl Sandburg

271.     Poet, The – Judith Barrington

272.     Poet Goes to Indiana, The – Mary Oliver

273.     Poetry – Marianne Moore

274.     Ponies – C. K. Williams

275.     Pony Express, The – Bret Harte

276.     Portland Pony Project, The – Scott Wayne Indiana

277.     Powwow Dancer – Garry Gottfriedson

278.     Queen’s Horses Disappear on Peachtree Street, The – Leigh Kirkland

279.     Question – May Swenson

280.     Rainbow, The Mustang – Gary Bauder

281.     Raisin, The – Donald Hall

282.     Refugio’s Hair – Alberto Rios

283.     Reincarnation – Wallace McRae

284.     Report to Crazy Horse – William Stafford

285.     Returning to Earth – Jim Harrison

286.     Ride, The – Lucinda Roy

287.     Ride, The – Richard Wilbur

288.     Ride a Cock Horse – Mother Goose

289.     Ride a Wild Horse – Hannah Kahn

290.     Ride Me Down Easy – Sung by Waylon Jennings, Author Unknown

291.     Ridin’ – Linda Bark’karie

292.     Riding Lesson – Henry Taylor

293.     Riding Wistful Horses – Alastair Adamson

294.     Road to Good Intentions is Paved With Horses, The – Peter Munro

295.     Roads – Amy Lowell

296.     Rocking Horse Ride, The – Brian Murphy

297.     Roll a Rock Down – Henry Herbert Knibbs

298.     Runaway, The – Robert Frost

299.     Runnin’ Wild Horses, Baxter Black

300.     Saddle, The – Thomas J. Firth

301.     Sam’s Race Horse – Marriott Edgar

302.     Saturday Matinee – Mary Crow

303.     Save a Horse (Ride a Cowboy) – Big & Rich

304.     Secrets – Robin Ivy

305.     Seahorse – Peter Cooper

306.     Seahorse Roundup – Paul D. Haemig

307.     Shack Dye – Edgar Lee Masters

308.     She Had Some Horses – Joy Harjo

308.     She Was a Pretty Horse – Joy Harjo

309.     Sheep in Fog – Silvia Plath

310.     Sheridan’s Ride – Thomas Buchanan Read

311.     Shoein’ Pigeye – Baxter Black

312.     Skull of the Horse, The – Thomas McGrath

313.     Skyball Paint – Song, Author Unknown

314.     Sleeping on Horseback – Po Chu-I

315.     Sleigh-Bells, The – Susanna Moodie

316.     Sometimes – Tobbie WhiteBird Crowe

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

318.     Song for Astrid, A: William Carlos William’s Horse – Mary Herbert

319.     Song of the Horse - Navajo

320.     Song of the Horse II – see Francis Densmore

321.     Song of the Wild Bushman – Thomas Pringle

322.     Source – Mark Doty

323.     Spirit Horse, The – James Doyle

324.     Spring – Mary Oliver

325.     Spring Evening on Blind Mountain – Louise Erdrich

326.     St. Valentine’s Day – Wilfrid Seawen Blunt

327.     Stallions in the Strand – Joyce Maxtone Graham

328.     Stargazing – K. Annette Bristol

329.     Statues in the Park – Billy Collins

330.     Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening – Robert Frost

331.     Stories From Kansas – William Stafford

332.     Station Songs and Droving Ditties – Harry ‘Breaker’ Morant

333.     Stewball Was a Race Horse – Folksong (Peter, Paul, & Mary)

334.     Stirrup Cup – John Hay

335.     Strawberry Roam (White Oak St.) – Frank James Ryan, Jr.

336.     Strawberry Rhone – Robert Browne

337.     Student Writing – Ralph Salisbury

338.     Sundance – Lindz Williamson

339.     Swift Things are Beautiful – Elizabeth Coatsworth

340.     Taku Skanskan – Paula Gunn Allen

341.     Team of Workhorses, The –  Robert Bly

342.     Tennessee Stud – Jimmy Driftwood

343.     Tennessee Walking Horse – Linda Byles

344.     Terrible – Lawrence Ferlinghetti

345.     Thanksgiving at Snake Butte – James Welch

346.     That Little Blue Roan – Bruce Kiskaddon

347.     Them Broomtail Nags – D. T. Johannsen

348.     Thinking of a Friend at Night – Herman Hesse

349.     This is a Poem I wrote at Night, Before the Dawn, Delmore Schwartz

350.     To be a Horse – Jan Oskar Hansen

351.     To-morrow to Fresh Woods and Pastures New – Amy Lowell

352.     To Ride Or Not to Ride? – Anonymous

353.     To the Appaloosa – Mary Lynn Walker

354.     Trying to Write – Elizabeth Smart

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

356.     Two Horses – Mark Strand

357.     Two Horses, One by the Roadside – John Haines

358.     Two Horses Playing in the Orchard – James Wright

359.     Two Lives at Full Speed – Catherine Keating

360.     Under the Border Fortress – Wang Changling

361.     Undertaker’s Horse – Rudyard Kipling

362.     Unfortunate Location – Louis Jenkins

363.     Venus and Adonis (from) – William Shakespeare

364.     Visit, The Zorika Petic

365.     wal-‘Adiyati – Zeba Khan

366.     Way Through the Woods, The – Rudyard Kipling

367.     We come into this life all naked and bare – Anonymous

368.     Weakness – Alden Nowles

369.     Weather – May Swenson

370.     Weight, The – Linda Gregg

371.     What is a Horse? – Lily Whittaker

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

373.     Where Horses Reign – Clark Crouch

374.     White Horse – Barbara Field

375.     White Horse, The – D. H. Lawrence

376.     White Horse – Mac McAnear

377.     White Horse of a Most Mystical Kind, A – David Taylor

378.     Who Was That Man? – Paul Bussan

379.     Who’s Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses? – U2

380.     Why Brownlee Left – Paul Muldoon

381.     Why Young Girls Like to Ride Bareback – Judith Barrington

382.     Wild Horse – Jewel

383.     Wild Horse, The – Yadollah Maftoun Amini

384.     Wild Horse Lore – William Stafford

385.     Wild Horses – Gary Holthaus

386.     Wild Horses – Mick Jagger and Keith Richards

387.     Wild Mares – Ogden McGahan

388.     Wild Wild West, The – Philip Lore

389.     Wildways: Zen Poems – Basho

390.     Wind on the Island – Pablo Neruda

391.     Windhorse – Suzanne Rancourt (Abenaki/Montaignes)

392.     Winter Ride, A – Amy Lowell

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

394.     With the Horse in the Winter Pasture – Linda McCarriston

395.     Woman Driving, A  – Thomas Hardy

396.     Wooden Horse – Suzanne Vega

397.     Wooden Toy, The – Charles Simic

398.     Wounded Knee Creek – Colin Ian Jeffery

399.     Wounds – for Paul Zarzyski, from The Traveler – Virginia Bennett (?)

400.     Ye Carpette Knyghte – Lewis Carroll

401.     Ye Old Mule – Sir Thomas Wyatt

402.     Yellowjacket – Peter Blue Cloud

403.     You Have No Horses – (Teton Sioux)

404.     Zebras. The – Roy Campbell