Best War Horse Poems

Brumby.

A strong gale cuts its path across the snow laden mountain tops,
light and tough the timor, thoroughbred mix, leads his mob at a trot.
A day spend grazing the valley below they now ascend the range above,
his brumbys follow out of awe and fear not with...

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by instinct
she speeds through dark wood- -
war horse...

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War Horse by Steven Cooke

Taken from Cloven fields, 
Where skylark and Grouse Linger.
Into the bowels of a troopship,
No scent of Morning Dew, No Bird song
Only sweat and urine,
And the distant sounds of war. 
No light, no grass of home, only the whip.
For he is bound...

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There once was a horse named joey that a little boy had as a pet.
As the war came to town the boy's dad took joey the horse to sell it to the army.
The horse was in the war for 4 years before the boy joined...

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The Life of a War Horse 
The horses I remember as a child were very big working horses, 
not nervous like race horses who need a rub down and soft words 
before racing. I remember specially a giant tanned coloured horse 
left behind after the...

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high upon a jagged cliff
a painted horse of many colors
stands under a cloudless sky . . . 
a native girl gazes at the vast land of Canada
as one eagle feather from her Indian war horse flutters away
lost . . .  it glides, it...

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Next time I will be stone.
I shall become the strongest wall of rock..
I will be born solid and hard.
This next time I will be tough to reach,
For I will had thickened in heart;
But like to those I never knew.
A time after this I will be...

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It is not our war to fight
Yet onwards we go without flight
Carrying man as best we can
Through bog and trench 
Ignoring the stench
Eager to please but dropping to our knees
When bullets and grenades end our days. 

I was a faithful steed
I did my best to...

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