Show pony = a stylish or flamboyant person, who enjoys being in the limelight. A person who appears to perform well, but has no real ability.
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​Is this the way things go?
​The show ponies dressed in
​robes of stuff and nonsense.
​Take over the show?
​An earth in despair and shame.
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​I have come far on this journey.
​At times my companions only
​sad and tearful thoughts.
​Up and down the slopes,
​breathless and gulping.
I ​carried on.
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​Now, I paint my standards
​and my honesty in a deep-arch.
​On the bamboo grass and
the temples weighed down
​with the tangle of history.

For I see beyond the show ponies.
And I hear the hail beating and
rattling on the ancient rooftops.
Then, I see the flowers –
closed once.
Come out, and bloom again.
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