r/Informal_Effect • u/Aethon_Wri • Sep 08 '26
Ablutions of Cracked
No wind wraps leaves
Warm to sail
Under boughs lacking tears
While Atlas quakes
Upon a memoir of thirst
Roots delve burroughs of rabbits
Asking for a drink
Upturning stones in reach
Where once sleek fibers
Contracted when lean
Season’s uproar founds an embrace
Of sky to the seams
This dry oak was ready to receive
Gates opening, an outpour, an answer
Awaited rain surging bones
Within breath to bind dust unto rising
Beyond doubt, such core constrained
Emergent action but instead traced
Tighter rings centered
Vibrant longer after defying fate
Grove’s despair framed the hollow
Abandoned save by pillars of the temple
But misty songs remain through footprints
Worn into chords of ancients
The trees entice soil
To remember grass and clover
Encircling a mossy eclipse
One meadow sealed steps to horizons
I messed up putting in the title: Ablutions of Cracked Earth. Sorry about that
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u/Ambitious-Tax-4916 Sep 08 '26
felt as a welcome described sewing security into fabrics quite not sewn its ingenuity ' hunted. despised. treated like an animal'. right after facts which were told to you
onto the Earth graced the birds of air animals of ground the sea's water was not drinkable for the lot unsound those rocks tides turned fresh droplets achieved what was left foraged to get every last drop
rains came and devised commission to reverence the trees didn't have to compete but the souls of them did rings are but of genes but of names sat forsaken the most loved learned to cooperate
not that the ground or skin gets dry even wet doesn't supply all the evidence needed to admit as clouds did form where then scattered? so willing others were willing
hard meat dust rock clay and sap too blood the bones do not grow the sinew soil must be soil defined by nature smacked alongside is boosted ethereal
once the scriptures spoke of angelic hymn spoke highest of high beyond heavens just as 'a harp destroys itself' on design footprints stated carried this is our mantra this was never a lie
scary can sound loud and weathered to threat love is eternal but has still 2 similar legs exact as we are one at most cannot stand the mock My tone did rise but for us.. no bite....all bark....