An Auto-biographical Dig
I love poems infused with history
worked into the present day topic
Like rocks overturned we return to our worms
unearth our wounds for good irrigation
Burrowed in journals are rich story castings
lineage lines that link generations
Like mineral veins of precious inheritance
I’m mining the evidence of my ancestral descent
Leaving my fingerprints on poems written down
like roots taking hold in a plot thickened
I’m turning the pages like turning the soil
to know what is growing in me
~ The above poem – which I wrote 13 years ago and dug up yesterday – was published in We’Moon in 2005 and appeared in my poetry collection Muses Like Moonlight.
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June 11th, 2013 3:06 pm
I really love this poem. This is one I want to read again and again—It’s like Shakespeare’s best…..I feel like there is much to be “mined” here…..
June 11th, 2013 3:35 pm
I love the picture. I love rocks. I love you.
June 11th, 2013 3:38 pm
turning pages, like turning soil….i like…and old journals def, there is so much to our history if we are willing to look for it…my son and his class just excavated statues buried at their school 40 years ago and in each was a letter…very cool
June 11th, 2013 5:23 pm
I too am struck by turning pages like soil–the idea that we mine to know ourselves better–Really lovely Colleen
June 11th, 2013 5:43 pm
Turning pages, like turning soil. I love this!
June 11th, 2013 6:06 pm
I like how the picture goes with the poem, reading our old poetry is like reading our diary or journal…I remember the feelings so well. I really like your writing …it gives me images with words.
June 11th, 2013 8:06 pm
Love your poems.
June 11th, 2013 8:32 pm
“Like rocks overturned we return to our worms
unearth our wounds for good irrigation”
yes, oh yes, this…
June 11th, 2013 9:59 pm
I really like that you save your poems in journals…I have so many! Love that last stanza. I love everything about this poem…
June 12th, 2013 4:11 am
This is so rich in texture and ideas in such a small collection of words.
June 13th, 2013 8:29 pm
WOW!
June 14th, 2013 5:16 am
You “dug” this up??? That didn’t strike me until I saw “…return to our worms….” Colleen, your mind is simply fascinating. Never stop writing…..