Tag: horse

• At first light

  We should live out our lives
  like a horse running free
  at first light

  not head hanging low
  in the mist
  grazing on grass stubs

  the world is a tumbledown house
  at the side of a road
  going nowhere

  I have been all along
  from the start

  free
  without knowing

  10/04/2023

  dawn, freedom, horse, spirituality

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• wind through grass

  she sat there like an old lioness
  presiding over her wounds

  and when she told of the children she’d abandoned
  some fifty years before
  who’d turned out alright
  I saw tears well up behind her eyes

  take away that prop I thought
  and the whole citadel comes down

  the whole citadel
  that I am reminded
  houses the soul

  then I remembered my own mother
  her own props and evasions
  and a sudden gust rippled my conscience
  like wind through grass

  that night I dreamt of a white horse
  standing in a burnt-out barn
  stranded and irrecoverable

  28/03/2016

  abandonment, barn, childhood, fire, horse, mother

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