Poetry Prompt Journey: Dig in the Dirt

Let's get grounded

Greetings Poets,

Welcome to a prompt journey that spends time close to the earth, among other places.

Thrillingly (at least for me 😂 😭), I had the revelatory experience of noticing that I could embed a video lower down in a regular Substack post, rather than creating a video post!

This is revolutionary! This changes everything! (And is also exceedingly, painfully, obvious.)

Well, what can I say? My brain is a very special wonderland. At least now I know!

It’s great that from here on in you can just enjoy the Prompt Journey and arrive at the video at the end, where I always wanted it to be, without frantic warnings to “pause the video and read the poems first!!”

I hope to update the previous Prompt Journeys ASAP…it’s a little hectic round these parts, as I am in a state of major preparation for the Fulbright in Morocco (!!!) as well as other lovely things, such as officiating my last bat mitzvah and an impending Spanish immersion program in Central America.

Thank you for your patience, and thank you for receiving these offerings.

As always, a gentle reminder to please support the artists shared in these Prompt Journeys. Why am I such a broken record about this? Because our current cultural zeitgeist carries an expectation that art should be available for free. With everything streaming straight into our teeny tiny magic palmboxes, it can be an act of loving kindness to remember that there is a human being on the other side of the readily accessible art that flows incessantly.

Also embedded in our contemporary experience is the impulse to go online and order some sort of mass produced no-thing by rote when we need to give a gift. And there is already too much stuff. That’s why I specifically mention the suggestion to consider purchasing a poetry book by a poet whose work rocked your world here—or an album from musicians who held your soul here—the next time you need to buy a gift for someone. And that’s why I remind you that you are “someone” and you deserve gifts, too. Don’t forget the poets! They give us so much.

Ok, let’s dig in the dirt already…