National Poetry Month 2018
Horse Races
This drawing has been in my files since the beginning of the month. I’ve passed over it again and again, not because I don’t love it, but because I have no experience with horse racing. I mean, none! I’ve never been to a horse race. I’ve never watched horse racing. It is a total foreign experience to me.
To enter into this drawing, I turned once again to Susan Goldsmith Wooldridge and PoemCrazy. She writes, “Poetry is a form of deep ecology, allowing us to experience the interdependence of everything on earth.”
Horse Race
Can you feel the beat
of the earth beneath
their feet?
Pounding horse hooves
in the wake
of the news.
Head down, focused strength,
we’ve all been there,
not knowing the outcome,
energy in the air.
Hold on tight.
This ride will be breathtaking.
Don’t let go.
The race is earthshaking.
Ride it out!
–Margaret Simon (c) 2018
Reflections on the Teche 