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Horse Poems - 41 For NICO WIND

ANNE MORIN'S
FOUND POEMS TO CELEBRATE
HER HORSE-LOVING DAUGHTER'S BIRTHDAYS!

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Nico Wind and Carrie

Anne Morin (Nico Wind's Mother)

More than nine years ago, I began collecting horse poems as a birthday gift for my daughter, Nico Wind.  By 2001, I had collected 41 poems and put them, with graphics I found on the web, in a notebook.  She loved this gift more, she said, than any other I'd given her, so I decided to find 42 more poems for 2002; 43 more for 2003; 44 more for 2004; 45 more for 2005; 46 more for 2006,  47 more for 2007, 48 more for 2008, and 49 more for 2009 - which I have presented to her on each of those birthdays in March.  This means, not that we're counting, that we now have about 404 poems for Nico Wind!  I'm in the process of acquiring 50 more for my final goal of a grand total of 454 horse poems for Nico Wind for 2010.  (All contributions gratefully received!)  Although I've asserted that this will be my last year of collecting horse poems, admittedly, a grand ride, my friends are encouraging me to publish my finds; maybe I will.
 
 (Music heard on this page is Nico Wind, singing her song, "Destiny's Spell" and playing her guitar.)
 
The titles, poets (and lyricists, for I have included some lyrics to horse songs and counted them as poetry) and publishing information I've been able to find for each poem are listed here.  (Note that this is still work in progress, as you can plainly see.)  If you'd like a copy of a particular poem, send me e-mail, and I'll send you a copy of the poem.  I don't like to break copyright rules, and so only a few of the poems appear in their entirety here.   On the other hand, those titles that are underlined may connect to a link that has the poem and other information about the poet.
 
I'll display one favorite poem for each of the pages with an added graphic.  Enjoy!
 
The favorite poem for 2001,
Forty-one Poems for Nico Wind,
is "A Blessing," by James Wright:
 
 

A Blessing

 

Just off the highway to Rochester, Minnesota,

Twilight bounds softly forth on the grass.

And the eyes of those two Indian ponies

Darken with kindness.

They have come gladly out of the willows

To welcome my friend and me.

We step over the barbed wire into the pasture

Where they have been grazing all day, alone.

They ripple tensely, they can hardly contain their happiness

That we have come.

They bow shyly as wet swans.  They love each other.

There is no loneliness like theirs.

At home once more,

They begin munching the young tufts of spring in the darkness.

I would like to hold the slenderer one in my arms.

For she has walked over to me

And nuzzled my left hand.

She is black and white,

Her mane falls wild on her forehead,

And the light breeze moves me to caress her long ear

That is delicate as the skin over a girl’s wrist.

Suddenly I realize

That if I stepped out of my body I would break

Into blossom.

 

       ~ James Wright ~
 

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41 HORSE POEMS FOR NICO WIND:
 

 

 

1.  “Before You Leave” - Ai.  (in) Major, Clarence (ed.) The Garden Thrives:  Twentieth-Century African-American Poetry.  HarperCollins. 1996. 

 

2.  "Blessing, A" - Wright, James.  The Branch Will Not Break.  NY:  Farrar, Straus and Giroux.  1963.

 

3.  “Blue Horses” - Roberson, Ed.  (in) Major, Clarence (ed.) The Garden Thrives:  Twentieth-Century African-American Poetry.  HarperCollins. 1996. 

 

4.  “Blue Horses – West Winds” - Ednrezze-Danielson, Nita.  in Songs From This Earth on Turtle's Back: Contemporary American Indian Poetry. ed. Joseph Bruchac, Greenfield Center: NY.  Greenfield Review Press, 1983

 

5.  “Bronzes” - Sandburg, Carl.  Chicago Poems.  NY:  Henry Holt & Co.  1916; Bartleby.com. 1999.  www.bartleby.com/165/ td.

 

6.  “Buffalo Bill’s Defunct” - Cummings, E. E.  100 Selected Poems by E. E. Cummings.  NY:  Grove Press. 1959.

 

7.  “Carousel” - McBride, Dennis.  Looking for Peoria: The Epicurean At Rest.  Portland: Quiet Lion Press.

 

8.  “The Cowboy’s Faith” (No Horses in Heaven) – Unknown ()

 

9.  “Daniel Webster’s Horses” - Coatsworth, Elizabeth.  Compass Rose.  NY:  Coward-McCann. Inc. 1929.

 

10.  “Death of an Old Carriage Horse” - Horton, George Moses.  (in) Sherman, Joan R. (ed.) The Black Bard of North Carolina:  George Moses Horton and His Poetry.  Chapel Hill:  Chapel Hill Books. 1997;

 

11.  “Destiny’s Spell” - Cordova, Nico Wind.  Copyright 1994.  (Music heard on this page is Nico Wind, singing her song and playing her guitar.)

 

12.  “Dreamhorse" - Cummings, E.E.  100 Selected Poems by E. E. Cummings.  NY:  Grove Press.  1959.

 

13.  “The Flyin’ Outlaw” - Fletcher, Curley (in) Cannon, Hal (ed.) Cowboy Poetry: A Gathering.  Salt Lake City: Peregrine Smith Books.  1985.

 

14.  “Horse” - Sexton, Anne.  Anne Sexton: The Complete Poems.  New York:  Houghton Mifflin Co. 1981

 

15.  “Horse Dance” - Van Doren, Mark.  Collected and New Poems 1924-1963.

 

16.  “Horses” - Benarroch, Moshe.  Horses and Other Doubts.  http://www.thestarlitecafe.com/poems/36/poem_1001002127.html.

 

17.  “Horses” - Cole, Henri.  http://www.theatlantic.com/unbound/poetry/antholog/cole/horses.htm.

 

18.  “Horses”  - Muldoon, Paul,  Horse Latitudes.  New York:  Farrar, Straus & Giroux. 2006

 

19.  “Horses” - Utting, Susan.  

 

20.  “Horses”  - Winner, Robert.  The Sanity of Earth and Grass.

 

21.  “The Horses of the Sea” - Rossetti, Christina.  Sing-Song: A Nursery Rhyme Book.  London: Macmillan & Co., 1893

 

22.  “Hush-a-by:  All the Pretty Little Horses” - US Folk Song

 

23.  “I Would Steal Horses” - Alexie, Sherman.  I Would Steal Horses. 1992.  http://slipstreampress.org/horses.html

 

24.  “Riding a Koan”  - Adair, Virginia Hamilton.  Ants on the Melon:  A Collection of Poems.  NY:  Random House.  1996.

 

25.  “Names of Horses” - Hall, Donald. Life Work: Donald Hall.  Boston, Massachusetts:  Beacon Press. 1991

 

26.  “Night Clouds” - Lowell, Amy.  Amy Powell: Selected Poems. New York: Penguin Group USA. 2004

 

27.  “On the Wagon” - Stoutenburg, Adrien.  in The New Yorker magazine. May 11, 1968 (p. 154)

 

28.  “Out of the Earth” - Teton Sioux Chant

 

29.  “Question” - Swenson, May.  The Complete Poems to Solve.  eds. Swenson, M & Hale, C.  New York: Macmillan Pub. 1993

 

30.  “Reincarnation” - McRae, Wallace.  Cowboy Poetry: A Gathering. ed. Hal Cannon.  Layton, Utah: Gibbs M. Smith, Inc. 1985

 

31.  “The Ride” - Roy, Lucinda.  (in) The Garden Thrives: Twentieth-Century African-American Poetry. 1955.

 

32.  “Ride a Wild Horse” - Kahn, Hannah.  Time, Wait.  Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida. 1984

 

33.  “The Road to Good Intentions is Paved With Horses” - Munro, Peter.  Eclectica Magazine. Vol 2, No 1. Nov./Dec. 1997

 

34.  “The Runaway” - Frost, Robert.  New Hampshire: Selected Poems.  New York: Holt. 1923.

 

35.  “Runnin’Wild Horses” - Black, Baxter.  Cactus Tracks and Cowboy Philosophy.  New York: Penguin Books. 1997.

 

36.  “She Had Some Horses” - Harjo, Joy.  She Had Some Horses.  NY:  Thunder’s Mouth Press.  1997.

 

37.  “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” - Frost, Robert.  New Hampshire.  1923

 

38.  “Stories From Kansas” - Stafford, William.  Kansas Poems of William Stafford.  ed. Low, Denise.  Topeka, Kansas: Woodley Press. 1990

 

39.  “Swift Things Are Beautiful” - Coatsworth, Elizabeth

 

40.  “Thanksgiving at Snake Butte” - Welch, James  http://www.washington.edu/uwired/outreach/cspn/Website/Hist%20n%20Lit/Part%20One/texts/Welch%20Thanksgiving.html

 

41.  “With the Horse in the Winter Pasture” - McCarriston, Linda  http://www.salmonpoetry.com/little.html

 

 

 

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