Best Dressage Poems

In
slow
motion-
sea horses
ride the ebbing tide....

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Perfecting skills to calm a flighty horse.
Compact its trombone limbs with reins and legs
performing with no noticeable force,
all trouble and delight that beauty begs.

One horse, one rider, indivisible;
sky-born with earth-bound duty to endorse.
Control from legs and seat must be invisible,
obeying smooth transitions on the course.

Struck...

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DRESSAGE
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I bend to your hands
Of feathery soft light
I dance and prance
To both our delight 
Your hands and legs
Guide me guide
Ride me ride
Two together
Entwined 
With pride
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My horse poem for today for riders who have played with this discipline, from a horse's point of view....

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Learning dressage can be difficult, 
Especially when training with different horses. 
Eddie ‘Whoopee Cushion’ maintains speed all the way through, 
While Angus ‘Cow Horse’ moos.
Scooby ‘Snail’ fails to obey,
And Joey ‘Giant’ delays going into canter.
Although all horses are different, 
I still manage to score over...

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