stuff of life ip

Cherry

By MarciaMarcia

Tue, 15 Jun 2021
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stuff of life     by Marcia Marcia

from earth’s mantle churning 

molten stellar dust 

in mineral fissure folds 

move fire hot liquid

upward thrust in

tremor rich and layered 

shale

reveal earth’s geode

nature-mined

trapped within glittered gem vine

all arise in pressured push

piercing earth’s crust

in mounting climb 

turns mountainous mass 

enduring eon’s time 

then peaks and pierces clouded sky

that open wide its water’s rain

drenching earth’s tumultuous flame

till in air’s silenced hush of 

dawn 

a living breathing planet born.    

 

Marcia Marcia

IP. 6/14/21

 

 

Certificate 15
Poem
Talecatching

Comments

Submitted by Insertponceyfre... on

Great response to the IP - thank you!

 

Submitted by MarciaMarcia on

Thanks so much for responding. It's so appreciated. and so is The IP. 
MM

Submitted by skinner_jennifer on

Poweful poem that gives the reader a sense of drama.

Jenny.

 

Submitted by MarciaMarcia on

Thank you so much for responding. It helps with the perspective of "How am I doing"  sometimes writing can feel like releasing a small bird out of your opened window, and watching it fly away, never knowing if it has reached its illusive destination

MM

Submitted by Tom Brown on

Beautiful descriptions Marcia dramatic hey? Good. You clearly know something about geology. You appear certainly a very unique and interesting person. Cherries!

Keep at it I enjoy reading your work! Tom Brown

 

Submitted by MarciaMarcia on

Hi Tom Brown     Thanks for your very positive response.   I do love geology.   I love that eons of churning molten "stuff" within earths core, which still persists, can give forth all that we have on our tiny floating planet to explore.  

Marcia  

 

Submitted by Tom Brown on

Journey to the Center of the Earth was a classic adventure scifi novel by Jules Verne. Brilliant but of course very far-fetched. Must be. The rather recent film in a modern setting I enjoyed a lot also, excellent. I find his story to be strangely plausible.

In a Popular Mechanics magazine of the other day there was a article on the shifting of the magnetic North Pole and it concludes with a scientist “ It would be great if we could somehow invent a device to go visit the Earth's core, to have a look at what these lobes of molten iron are doing and see how they are interacting with the magnetic field”.

All the best Marcia! Tom Brown

 

 

Submitted by Sim on

A gem of a poem that I'd overlooked. Powerful and vivid.

Sim