LAST TRAIN OUT OF BISMARK

The last fight of a valiant horse

LAST TRAIN OUT OF BISMARK

 

Busting bronco saddle bent

Lurching off the trail

Leaping hurdles in her path

She speeds onward with the mail

 

Darking sky opens gushing rain

Flipping o`er the furze intent

Dauntless courier will catch her train

Far away a mournful whistle sounds

 

Heaving bronco sucking air

No time left to breathe

Sweating horse will get her there

A plume of smoke on the horizon

 

Pancho strains the bridle

Thundering hooves drum o`er the prairie

As this valiant rider goes for broke

A pony with heart of champions speeds on

 

Thundering down the last embankment

Stumbling, coughing, lathered sides

Pancho racing his precious cargo

Overhauled the speeding train---he dies

 

---- Eagle Cruagh

Reviews

[Bare trees]

It sounds like he could'nt keep up with progress. I felt the rhythm of this piece but must admit I was thrown off by the unrhymed second stanza. Nevertheless a creative poem which brings back that pony express story line that was most enjoyable. Liked this a lot. Well done.

[x]

Loved this. It sits in me like a painting on the wall of a long forgotten, country hotel full of dust and dreary travellers but there, unseen by those distracted by weariness, lies this 'painting', so full of life and the story it tells. I see it and I am drawn into the scene and can feel all the passion of the story depicted. I am captured and dazzled and for just a moment, I am in the painting....

[Tracie Skarbo]

Oh I didn't see that ending coming... it threw me for a loop! :) Great job... I could hear the hoofbeats and feel the exciting emotions... :)