White Horse. Black Stallion (a poem)

I was driving along, listening to an interview on Q on CBC Radio radio. The band being interviewed was called, White Horse. I smiled when host Jian Gomeshi asked, "What if you'd been from Yellowknife?".  Seriously... Jian Gomeshi rocks.

And then, a image galloped through  my mind, "White Horse. Black Stallion."

I didn't know where it was leading but I had to drive so I let it lead itself into the quiet until I got home and a poem wrote itself out.  I love how ideas collide and mesh and evolve and appear -- an interview on CBC Radio and the fact that when I wrote this, it was the Epiphany, January 6. The fact I was thinking about my daughters and how much they've taught me and how grateful I am and how life is yin and yang, light and dark, beauty in the duality of our existence.


White Horse. Black Stallion
(a poem for my daughters)

White horse/black stallion

you came screaming

from the womb

of my maternal impulse

to create

wonder

Full of life

arms flailing

lungs gasping

you arrived

heralding the epiphany

of my being

becoming

your ride

into this world.

I nurtured you

you taught me

and I am forever

changed

forever

grateful

Love rode in

and my heart screamed

in pure delight

galloping like a

white horse/black stallion

celebrating the duality

of life

expressing itself

through our shared

experience

in Love.

I invite you to listen to it here:

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