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My inspiration today is twofold, three-fold really. My best friend, Carol, posts me Facebook videos and pictures of elephants, because she knows how much I love them. (I'll post one here for you.) They always make me smile.

Cat encouraged me to read Mary Oliver, who is one of her favorite poets. I'm not as keen on free verse as I probably should be lol but I did read, as was suggested. One of Mary Oliver's poems, "The Storm," reminded me of the pictures and videos that I get from Carol, of the elephants. And then this poem was born.

Thank you, Carol Thomas, Cat, and Mary Oliver for today's inspiration... and the elephants, of course. :)

(courtesy of Poetseers.org)

Mary Oliver (born September 10, 1935) is an American poet who has won the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize. She writes in a simple direct way, and many of her poems paint a close relationship with nature. (1984 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for American Primitive)

The Storm

Now through the white orchard my little dog
romps, breaking the new snow
with wild feet.
Running here running there, excited,
hardly able to stop, he leaps, he spins
until the white snow is written upon
in large, exuberant letters,
a long sentence, expressing
the pleasures of the body in this world.
Oh, I could not have said it better

- Mary Oliver

I promised you a video:

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