This poem was written in honour of of Black Beauty, Anna Sewell, who was born in Great Yarmouth. Find out more about Red Wings the horse charity that run Anna Sewell House. Link to Redwings takes on historic Anna Sewell House | Redwings Horse Sanctuary and Equine Veterinary Centre
You can walk from Anna Sewell House to the restored Venetian Waterways – The Waterways, Great Yarmouth – The Waterways (wordpress.com) Can you find a sundial engraved with a quote by Anna Sewell?
Dark Horses
In honour of Anna Sewell
She couldn’t leave the house.
But still her incendiary kindness knew no bounds,
hooves thundering,
the first of its kind.
Black Beauty. A legend, now
but back then they called you powerless
to do what you could do so well.
Anna’s little thing, a trail blazer sold for twenty pounds
breaking new ground,
hope and imagination making possible the impossible.
Blazing away reins revealing humanity,
unworthy. Guardians, unsound.
Greed, oppression – an illness,
through kindness, defeated.
A voice for the vulnerable.
In vulnerability,
her strength profound.
While all around her,
the garden
sang, as her voice sang,
pansies pert, bees flying, beeches glowing
with wildflowers at their feet.
Listen, they knew
something we are all remembering.
The wild darkness is coming.
Dark horses,
rising, thundering
back from the dead, bringing kindness
back to beauty and humankind,
Amen.
Share your love now. Show mercy. Leave nothing unsaid.