dVerse Poets Pub Quadrille: earth

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Today’s prompt for the dVerse Poets Quadrille is the word earth.

Tiny shoots in a new garden

Cruel Dance

Your roots, deep veins
in dark earth smell
of heat and safety
Clinging sweet on savory
Luscious minerals necessary for

Life on earth our
feet stabilize during the
eternal push and pull
of gravity’s cruel dance
The earth leaves its
mark upon our soles.

Published by marialberg

I am a fiction writer, poet and lyricist inspired by a life of leaping without hesitation. I was quoted and pictured in Ernie K-Doe: The R & B Emperor of New Orleans by Ben Sandmel. My short stories have been published in Five on the Fifth, Waking Writer, and Fictional Pairings. I am the author and photo-illustrator of Gator McBumpypants picturebooks. I enjoy clothing, costume and puzzle design.

15 thoughts on “dVerse Poets Pub Quadrille: earth”

  4. I enjoyed the appeal to the senses, Maria, especially the ‘dark earth smell’ and taste of ‘clinging sweet on savory’ in the first stanza, and then the wonderful twist of movement and the feel of the earth leaving its mark on our feet, rather than us leaving our footprints on the earth.

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