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A Dappled Dark Horse
Imagination
is what you utilize to
choose your chosen names!
"A Dappled Dark Horse"
is one of my chosen names—
since that's who I am!*
-Paul Whiting
(a.k.a., Three Dark Horses)
"I am the darkness which brings the light!"
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My Spiritual Notes:
The reason that I wrote this poem can be summed up with the following statement: A "chosen name" is like a nickname that you choose to give yourself, which represents how you feel about yourself. For example, a dark horse is "a candidate or competitor about whom little is known but who unexpectedly wins or succeeds," which is who I am!
*And I feel like clarify that these chosen names of mine are NOT LITERAL—they are a METAPHOR, which is a direct comparison without using the words "like," or "as" in the comparison—that SYMBOLIZE how I feel about myself in SPIRITUAL way! It is like the saying "they are a wise old owl," which is used to describe someone who is wise by comparing them directly to owls.
And this poem was only published on my "Three Dark Horses" blog.
This poem was written in Portland, Oregon.
-Paulee
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P.S.: If you are interested in reading the related posts in the series I wrote which are listed under the post label, "I Am" that are from my "Small All White in the Forest" and "Paul Whiting — A Creative Writer" blogs, please see the hyperlinks below:
https://smallallwhiteintheforest.blogspot.com/search/label/I%20Am...
https://paulwhitingwriting.blogspot.com/search/label/I%20Am...
P.P.S.: If you are interested in reading the related posts in the series I wrote which are listed under the post label, "Haiku-Style" that are from my "Small All White in the Forest," "Poet, Artist and Philosopher" and "Paul Whiting — A Creative Writer" blogs, please see the hyperlinks below:
https://smallallwhiteintheforest.blogspot.com/search/label/Haiku-Style
https://poetartistandphilosopher.blogspot.com/search/label/Haiku-Style
https://paulwhitingwriting.blogspot.com/search/label/Haiku-Style
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This "Three Dark Horses" Post No. 003 was edited on July 2nd, 2026.
"Poetry is using the fewest words possible in order to describe all that is possible to describe." –Paul Whiting [June 1st, 2022]
My poems that are Haiku in their style—within which one stanza is composed of three lines, where each line has words containing five syllables, seven syllables and five syllables, respectively—are a lot more like Senryū poems in that the topic of these poems is typically about people, rather than the topic of these poems being about nature, as is usually the case in classic Haiku poems. And that is why I call these types of poems "Haiku-style." –Paul Whiting [September 19th, 2023]
