'SHOES MAKE THE WARHORSE': PERSHORE'S MEMORIAL...

 Shoes Make The Warhorse

(Pershore’s WW1 Memorial…)

There is a grim expression 

Upon the pinched face

And within the cavalryman’s eyes,

A lean, rather sinewy fellow with no trace

Of pride in a betrayal of depression,

For the horrors of battle his star belies…

There is a sad impression

Upon the sculpted face

And about the warhorse’s metal frame,

A lean beast, emaciated, showing no trace

Of pride in its suffering and repression,

Now rendered unfit for duty and cruelly lame…

Pete Ray

October 2020

Perhaps one of the horses taken from a farming background to serve during World War 1.

A harrowing existence for most, as it was for many soldiers.

This memorial’s horse has been cleverly made from horseshoes, one of which is from the war itself…