Gift

Gift

Kenneth Steven

I think how we were given once
a field of horses that first morning bright
in the full sunlight of the beginning.

Where have we not wandered since
putting those horses into mines to drag our coal
or through the shriek of war to drown in mud?

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Kenneth Steven
Poet & Painter

Kenneth is a Scottish poet, writer and painter who, with his wife, leads retreats on Celtic Christianity on the Island of Iona. A recent collection is, Iona: New and Selected Poems.

Photography by Janko Ferlic