Sunday, September 12, 2021

Blue Horses by Mary Oliver

I step into the painting of the four blue horses.

I am not even surprised that I can do this.


One of the horses walks toward me.

His blue nose noses me lightly. I put my arm

over his blue mane, not holding on, just

commingling.


He allows me my pleasure.

Franz Marc died a young man, shrapnel in his brain.

I would rather die than explain to the blue horses

what war is.

They would either faint in horror, or simply

find it impossible to believe.


I do not know how to thank you, Franz Marc.

Maybe our world will grow kinder eventually.

Maybe the desire to make something beautiful

is the piece of God that is inside each of us.


Now all four horses have come closer,

are bending their faces toward me

as if they have secrets to tell.

I don’t expect them to speak, and they don’t.

If being so beautiful isn’t enough, what

could they possibly say?

- Mary Oliver (via the brilliant Maria Popova)


If you haven't watched the movie War Horse then please do so. Sapiens and their ready made stupidness killed millions of horses in world war 2. 

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