Best Rooting Poems
Swallowing soil's nutrients, they swell up under earth -
round or tubular vegetables of edible wholesome delight!
Carrots, beets and onions steadily fuel the body,
but yams, potatoes and parsnips - baked and buttered -
are the ones I ROOT the loudest for!
Written Jan. 4, 2016 for the Rooting For 8 To 5 contest of nette onclaude
Categories:
rooting, food,
Form:
Verse
My sister
For years I hoped my feet grew roots;
My toes would find themselves deep earthy rock...
My sister wrapped herself around my tiny loneliness,
Offering a permanent shell no oyster could provide.
My sister, my pearl, this lost heart shines.
***
January 4, 2017
For contest: Rooting for 8 to 5
Sponsor: Nette Onclaud
Categories:
rooting, destiny, family, home, love,
Form:
Verse
"The Storyteller"
In childhood I listened to Grandma tell stories,
she would talk of family, past and not;
I watched her face and her expressions fascinated,
each word became etched in my mind, then
Grandma died- now I tell the family stories.
_______________
January 4, 2017
Poetry/Verse/Rooting for 8 to 5
Copyright Protected, ID 17-863-227-0
All Rights Reserved. Written under Pseudonym.
For the contest, Roots for 8 to 5
sponsor, Nette Onclaud
Second Place
Categories:
rooting, family, spoken word,
Form:
Verse
I am a child of Micronesia. Her ancient
blood runs in my veins. I'm afar from
her islands, I maybe enchanted with the world
But I never ditched never forgotten my roots
My heart sings for her warmth and love
Just got inspired by the title of their contest :)
Rooting for 8-5
Akkina R Downing
1-4-17
Categories:
rooting, child, home, inspiration,
Form:
Free verse
ROOTS
They came seeking a future not their own
carrying naught but memories too soon to fade
into the substance of a union of hearts.
In leaving left the spitting image of themselves
to gather up their memories lest they fade.
1/3/2017
submitted to – ROOTING FOR 8 TO 5 – Poetry Contest
Categories:
rooting, family, immigration,
Form:
Free verse
The beeches
Three queenly beeches on an English hill,
Tree spirits, sisters, who kept watch for centuries.
Root ridges cross and knit a wooden carpet;
Bare branches tangle, twist, and leave a mosaic,
Like stained glass windows, of pale April sky.
January 4, 2017
For contest Rooting for 8 to 5
Sponsored by nette onclaud
1st place
Categories:
rooting, nature, tree,
Form:
Verse
This raging toothache is driving me quite mad
I phone the dentist, in such terrible pain
Bad tooth must be extracted by the roots
They have a free space at two thirty
‘Tooth hurty’ - I laugh at the appointment time!
Contest Rooting for 8 to 5
Sponsored by Nette Onclaud
01~04~17
Categories:
rooting, body, humorous,
Form:
Verse
Woman of Fertile Earth, come sing to me
let these hands, feet explore your hidden wonder
to submerge into dewy grounds rippling life's music,
of infant buds lisping tenderly among field's roots
as nature grants lush springtime its tuneful arrival.
Rooting For 8 To 5 !: nette onclaud's Contest
4th January 2017
Categories:
rooting, earth day, flower,
Form:
Verse
Underlying roots
My heart lays an empty field of snow
Desolate tree lines, lifeless in winter’s frigid grip
Vacuous stretches, a frozen wasteland of lost dreams
Gazing the distance towards a hopeful spring thaw
Praying the underlying roots of love have survived
1/4/17
Written for the Rooting for 8 to 5 poetry contest
Sponsored by Nette Onclaud
Categories:
rooting, heartbroken, sad, winter,
Form:
Verse
Rooting for furry ball of fur
He'll never forget the night the white pussy
fell onto his lap. So soft and playful.
With green cat eyes that followed his fingers.
He tickled her nose, feet, belly. She heated
to his touch, purring louder. She was his.
connie pachecho
non entry to contest
1/5/17
Categories:
rooting, baptism, cat, love,
Form:
Free verse
Roots
Buried deep and dark, roots promise worthy fruits
that feed and blossom from one common seed.
With solid branches multiplying thru so many years,
growing up and out from sound, established roots,
our ancestral tree of generations makes its stand.
Sandra M. Haight
~4th Place~
Contest: Rooting For 8 to 5
Sponsor: Nette Onclaud
Judged: 01/09/2017
Rules: 5 lines of 8 words each - total 40 words
Categories:
rooting, family, growth, history, tree,
Form:
Verse
The Medallion
I have searched the Earth for Mankind's birth
Stumbled across some petrified wood in the southeast
Inside was a medallion carved with strange markings
An inscription that said, we came in peace
1/4/17
contest Rooting for 8 to 5
Categories:
rooting, meaningful,
Form:
Verse
Here comes the drill
that will inhabit
my tooth.
Goggles and mask
overhead. Victim, I
mean patient, not
patient, wanting out.
Still,
to make it out of pain,
I must let the end-
odontist root
out the problem,
insane.
The chair
seems electric.
I have an out
of body
experience,
that is all
too real.
The first one
left me
in pain.
I pray
this second time
is
a piece of cake.
meanwhile,
before I step out
I’m driven insane
by
this confounded
woodpecker
drilling on the siding
of my house.
For such a little thing
both
are a cavernous bother.
2/7/2023
Categories:
rooting, angst, bird, body,
Form:
Free verse
We mine the soils with our wooden picks
cutting slower than any human eye can see
digging for ancient minerals in pockets of water
to send above through a vascular cambium highway
we won't rest again until dormancy or death
Contest: rooting for 8 to 5
Sponsor: nette onclaud
Jan. 3/2017
Categories:
rooting, nature,
Form:
Verse
In the middle of a dense fog night
Imaginary roots were cut down by a lady
Escaping from mental dungeon that dragged in despair
Feeling like a bird that escaped from prison
Tasting the freedom sensed when burdens are thrown
For Rooting 8 To 5 Poetry Contest
Sponsored by Nette Onclaud
Fourth Place
January 4, 2017
Checked with How Many Syllables Count
Categories:
rooting, freedom,
Form:
Free verse