Poets United Midweek Motif ~ Gravity

“Gravity is a habit that is hard to shake off.”
― Terry Pratchett, Small Gods

"In a poem the excitement has to maintain itself.

I am governed by the pull of the sentence as

the pull of a fabric is governed by gravity."
―Marianne Moore

But the strong base and building of my love
Is as the very centre of the earth,
Drawing all things to 't.
— William Shakespeare

Midweek Motif ~ Gravity

"Gravity is the force that attracts two bodies toward each other, the force that causes apples to fall toward the ground and the planets to orbit the sun. The more massive an object is, the stronger its gravitational pull."

source
(Today is Apple Day in Great Britain.)

Gravity is also seriousness, solemnity and dignity.

Your Challenge:  

Write a new poem 

with lots of gravity in it.

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Height Is the Distance Down

BY MARY BARNARD

What’s geography? What difference what mountain   

it is? In the intimacy of this altitude   

its discolored snowfields overhang half the world.

On a knife rim edge-up into whirlpools of sky,   

feet are no anchor. Gravity sucks at the mind   

spinning the blood-weighted body head downward.

The mountain that had become a known profile   

on the day’s horizon is a gesture of earth   

     . . . . 

(Read the rest HERE at the Poetry Foundation.)

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(Next week Susan's Midweek Motif will be ~ Animation)