Rocking Horse

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rocking horse

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A rocking horse is a child's toy, usually shaped like a horse and mounted on rockers similar to a rocking chair.


Predecessors of the rocking horse may be seen in the rocking cradle, the tilting seats used during the Middle Ages for jousting practice as well as the wheeled hobby horse. The toy in its current form did not appear before the 17th century, though some conflicting sources note medieval manuscripts including references to carved rocking horses, presumably of the toy kind.
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a cold wind
dead child’s horse
rocks by itself

George Swede
In Swede’s haiku, the rocking horse isn’t as symbolic as it is a haunting reminder that the child that once played there is gone. The horse rocks from the cold wind (and the fact that the wind is cold has a particular haunting feeling attached to it, as well) because the child is no longer there to rock on the horse himself/herself.
http://performance.millikin.edu/haiku/research/SwedeDunphy.html


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early spring
the wind plays alone
on the rocking horse

Virginie Colline
http://www.inksweatandtears.co.uk/pages/?cat=10

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dusty attic—
the old rocking horse
without any eyes

Michael Dylan Welch.
https://sites.google.com/site/graceguts/haiku-and-senryu/traces-of-snow

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child's rocking horse
in the morning it was gone
hoofprints in dew damp grass

gennepher
http://hikoo.net/haiku/169787

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We whinny and neigh,
two rocking horses grazing
the pasture of porch

Adrian Rice
http://griffinpoetry.com/tag/haiku/

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on a rocking horse
my journey
thousand years from the south

Jacob Kobina
http://simplyhaiku.com/SHv7n4/haiku/a2.html

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