A Month Of Happiness Poem by Robert Bly

I was amazed reading these verses: ''A blind horse stands among cherry trees. // I follow my own fiery traces through the night.'' since I used the image of a horse in my poem 'CHERRY BLOSSOMS'! Someone could think I took inspiration from him.. yet, I didn't know of Bly's poem before.. :)

Robert Bly and I are both lifelong Minnesotans and lifelong poets. I boldly place myself in the same sentence with him, but honestly I have been for 50 years in awe of him, as are many others. He is very personable, whenever I have talked to him, he is eager to hear about about my dreams and desires. But he is our Master: he taught us why Poetry matters to us, he taught us to read the poets of the world; he showed us how to live poetic lives and moral lives, he was there to guide us when we floundered and thought things were hopeless. He was our Blake affirming the power of the Imagination, our Yeats seeking the spiritual in the material, our Iron John living the mythic experience in our individual lives. In the long list of roles he played for all these decades in our visionary company, perhaps he will be remembered as our best and most faithful Teacher, who understood EDUCATION means to lead forth, to lead one's students, prepared and enthusiastic and hopeful, into the World and then let them go, release them even from his tutelage, so in the end his final gift to us is OUR FREEDOM.

To light the road.... thanks for sharing....

But A paw Comes out of the dark To light the road. I'll be all right. I follow my own fiery traces through the night......sounds mysterious

Dr. Frosini, NOW you KNOW poet Bly's poem, truly a Month Of Happiness!

I will search your CHERRY BLOSSOMS and I will give it a response.

Thanks for sharing.

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To me this poem is about the processing of grief and the realization that the deceased will be okay and and follow their own fiery traces through the night.