This post was inspired by whattheducks.com
for Blogger Action Day, Save the Soils (which was yesterday)
I don’t think of you as often as I should.
Your deep, dark richness and heady,
earthen smells lay hidden in humble silence.
Is it too much to write about how we’ve all
sprung from your warm, nurturing embrace?
Perhaps that’s overly dramatic for this
tiny collection of words in your honor.
Suffice it to take a small moment of honest
gratefulness for your ever-providing
and life-sustaining nature.
spanishwoods 
Lovely, and the more one “digs” into the poem, the more meanings emerge.
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Thank you.
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Beautiful
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Thank you very much.
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“nurturing embrace”… What a great post!!
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Thank you!
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And it also works as a love poem, which is the best way to honor something, isn’t it? Thanks so much for this multi-sensory contribution!!! 😀
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You are most welcome, thank you for including me.
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Lovely! soil is the base for the flowers beauty, you should have added a line about the worms living in it. 🙂
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Very true.
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“earthen smells lay hidden in humble silence” – favorite line!
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Thank you 🙂
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Beautiful, Sylvia. I am sure that the soil thanks you for the tribute. –Curt
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Thanks Curt!
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A beautiful prayer for our soil, our mother.
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Indeed she is. Thank you Eliza.
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Yes, it is always worthwhile to pause a moment and be grateful for the natural resources which sustain us. We may live in an industrial, urban world but we still need the bounty of nature to live.
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Very true.
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