DMC: "Ode to Spring Soil" by Michelle Kogan

ODE TO SPRING SOIL

You feel soft and squishy, as her

shoes ooze over with clumps of your midnight mix.

Your earthy scent magnifies, as she moves toward you.

Swish, her foot slips and she sloshes down,

sliding to the ground; savoring your richness between her wet lips.

Why have you softened so early? Spring Soil,

for centering and slowing her, before the rush of summer.

 

© 2017 Michelle Kogan. All rights reserved.

Helen Frost has challenged us to write an ode poem this month, following these instructions:

Choose an object (a seashell, a hairbrush, a bird nest, a rolling pin). It should not be anything symbolic (such as a doll, a wedding ring, or a flag). Write five lines about the object, using a different sense in each line (sight, sound, touch, taste, smell). Then ask the object a question, listen for its answer, and write the question, the answer, or both.

Click HERE to read her sample poem, "Ode to a River."

Post your poem on our March 2017 padlet. All contributions will be included in a wrap-up celebration on Friday, March 31st, and one lucky participant will win a personalized copy of her latest novel-in-poems from Farrar, Straus, and Giroux/Macmillan: