Returned To Dirt

Look! The first blade of spring grass! And another! And another!

Soon, the field will be so filled with grass blades that I’ll forget about them altogether.

I’ll just run. I’ll dream in green, pretend I’m flying, and ignore my feet as they slowly sink into the accumulating dew.

Until the dew forms an ocean so vast that not even the sky can contain it.

As it swallows even the sun, extinguishing it, and cold darkness is all that remains.

Until every blade of grass is returned to dirt.

Then I’ll remember that first blade and just how special she was. And find her all over again in endless springs of eternal futures.

18 responses to “Returned To Dirt”

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    Anonymous

    How lovely. Adding poetry as a new skill? (Although your prose was often poetic/)

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    Mary E Streight

    Have missed you.  Welcome back.  Bitd reports soon.  HappyspringEileen 

    Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPad

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    Anonymous

    glad to hear from you again.

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    Anonymous

    ……. And so we meet again …..

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    Anonymous

    Same : )

    Thank you.

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    Anonymous

    I am so glad when I saw your name come up on my iPad you have been missed .

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    Anonymous

    I have been thinking of you and so hoping for a post. Thank you ♥️

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      exit63

      Thank you

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    Anonymous

    Looking forward to more posts – beautiful photo. Hmm, and you’re poetic too!

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      exit63

      Thanks

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    Anonymous

    What a good haiku..but a bit long.

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      exit63

      Haha, if only I had the skill!

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    Anonymous

    I feel exactly the same way-just can’t express it as beautifully! Spring has SPRUNG…and that means SUMMER is not far off!!!!

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      exit63

      So close!

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    Anonymous

    Once again, your words stir my soul and fill my spirit with hope of continual life…..

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      exit63

      Thank you

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    Anonymous

    How beautiful is this? Poetry… you are full of surprises! Missing you, Jim

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      exit63

      Thank you

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