The Rooted Mother Earth



Behold these trees buried in the earth
These trees with feet buried by the forest
Behold some trees lanky like a teacher's cane

Some are short midgets
Some as plump as a pigmy
Some chewable, some for woods
But all takes their place
Without any stopping the others' growth
None taking the others' seats.

Behold these trees dipped deep into the earth's womb
Mother earth moans silently
Her cunt-juice soothing the trees' root
The mating of fertile root and fecund earth
Birthing new fruits and new trees
Behold, these trees can't be decimated
These uncondomed trees when uprooted
Jerkily releases some of its roots to the earth

They sprout again and birth new trees
These trees can't be obliterated
Not by a cluster of companies
The aborted roots crying silently of short dreams

Find succour in the country
Where trees are allowed to breed more with the earth.

About this poem

The poem captures the man's imaginative projection of living and none living things!. The poet carefully examines the existential evolutionary principle of life and death, nature and artificial, begining and the end of another begining, time and season etc. The poet uses allusion to reflects on human transitioning from dashed-hope to hopeful situation, a continual accession from death to life, evil to goodness etc.

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Submitted by Olajide1900 on October 17, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme AXX XBXXXX XBXACDDA CDCX BA
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 873
Words 164
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 3, 6, 8, 4, 2

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