April is Poetry Month
Posted April 26, 2019 at 5:43 am by Tim Dustrude
In our continuing April is Poetry Month series, the San Juan Update is sharing poems from local poets every Friday this month. Today is the 4th and final Friday and we have “Red Dirt”, by Sherry Smith Bell:
Red Dirt
Family Farm – an etching by Sherry Smith Bell
Color of Earths’ mantle
Wears a cape
Of earthen flow
Dust storms cover the land,
Blowing, blowing,
Top soil wears thin
Crops do not flourish
Malnourished land
Whirl-a –gigs of wind
Rain, washing, running through gullies
A child puts on boots to play.
Sherry Smith Bell
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