I began the month gung-ho for poetry, joining a poetry challenge, and then doubling down on reading All. The. Poetry. Then after deciding I had bitten off too much, I declared I would have None. Of. The. Poetry. But yesterday after reading two books of poetry, I now am thinking I’ll be okay with Some. Of. The. Poetry.
The two books of poetry were by the late Mary Oliver: Dream Work and Blue Horses. I read both yesterday on Ash Wednesday, which I took off as a vacation day. I borrowed the first from Prime Reading, the second from the Free Library of Philadelphia via the Libby app. While I liked the first one, I enjoyed the second one more for poems like the main poem:
Listen to “Franz Marc’s Blue Horses” by Mary Oliver by On Being Studios on #SoundCloud
https://soundcloud.com/onbeing/franz-marcs-blue-horses-by
The poem was inspired by the painting below:
I guess I am okay with poetry. For now. At least. Some. Of. The. Poetry.
Still an unfinished person... 
I like this very much.
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Wow that’s a cool looking painting. I have not seen it before but seems a bit Picaso-esque. I like Mary Oliver’s love of animals.
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Thanks for sharing. To be honest, it doesn’t really feel like poetry to me. If it were written as a paragraph, it would just feel like a reflection. Too wordy for me, not enough play with the sound of the letters and syllables. But I’m very picky when ti comes to poetry
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