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Root Cellar Poems

That Smell

...That Smell

That smell I know
But can not place
Is from my youth
A certain space 

That smell I know
Is so familiar
Musty and cold
Like an root cellar

That smell I know
Brings me right ...

Categories: root cellar, memory,
Form: Rhyme

Wergle Flomp Good Humor 2023

...Wergle Flomp Good Humor 2023

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I dash with my jiggling boobs in an attempt to escape... 
being overrun by teddy bears and bean...

Categories: root cellar, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Rhyme

Mother's Favorite Flower

...Mother said of all the mid-summer flowers she loved best,
The common garden dahlia was clearly her favorite.
Every Spring she carefully hand-placed the sturdy tubers,
Tenderly caring for each one,...

Categories: root cellar, flower, memory, mother,
Form: Imagism

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

Survivor Hope Chests

...Survivor Hope Chests
                            by Odin Roark

I’m of flesh and blood
hearing distant melodies
somewhere way back
behind the leafless tree,
the chicken coop,
or root cellar,
...

Categories: root cellar, hope,
Form: Prose Poetry

I Heard the Owl Call My Name

...I heard the owl call my name,
like a backbeat in a child's voice,
etched in shadows of a father's grave,

lonely echoes on a frosted night...

at dawn I'll be immortal again,
renewed by a work...

Categories: root cellar, dream, war, , cute,
Form: Free verse

Reflections of You

...I caress the blooms of the lilac bush and breathe their sweet fragrant breath. Here in my garden where spring has risen from the melting heart of winter’s death. And when a gentle breeze  kisses my f...

Categories: root cellar, childhood, nostalgia,
Form: Prose Poetry

Blue Harvest Moon

...Comes silently
on sorrel moccasins

roosted on tortoiseshell
of root cellar

singing, stumbling
in numb imaginings

lit with half-light
vegetables
squeezed in jars
of russet and avocado
...

Categories: root cellar, childhood, imagination, nature, time,
Form: Free verse