my feet find me here
on soil and dirt speaking some
long, unending drum
song sung before all
was lost to progress killing
the unfolding feel
of soul from earth revealing
love’s eternal work.
somehow the dance moves
me beyond the fall and fear,
bounty awaiting.
mind kneels to feel
and naked knowing births earth’s
song from depths ancient.
take me always back
to the animal and sage,
my feet drinking all
those rivers erupting earth’s
resonating love.
J. Ruth Kelly 
“My feet drinking all those rivers”, I will not soon forget. I love that.
Thanks for dropping in Leslie…
“The powerful attraction between the body and the earth offers sustenance and physical replenishment when it is consummated in contact. Although we’ve lately come to associate gravity with heaviness, and so to think of it as having a strictly downward vector, nonetheless something rises up into us from the solid earth whenever we’re in contact with it.” David Abram, The Spell of the Sensuous
“And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.” Gibran Khalil Gibran
“The Elephants Were Calling Last Night
The Elephants were calling last night
From the Rim of the mesa
Into the valley of stones
Their sounds shaking my windows
And Crushing my heart
A Giant Matriarch
Standing on my chest
With her great soft foot.
Ear Wings beckoning me
to follow Her
To Follow Them
To Migrate Back
To leave tormented Earth
And Cross the starry fields to
Home.” Colleen Kelley
How your words resonate, J. Ruth…
What gorgeous poetry you’ve shared here… I love the Abrams quote! My feet feel the soaking up, currents humming when I walk around, barefoot. But especially when I just sit with feet flat on earth (if the ground is still wet with dew then it’s even more wonderful). In fact, I don’t think there’s any other way to walk on earth, most of the time. All the world is so busy with their goings on…neglecting this great bond…suffering bulimic consumerism in place of one of the most sustaining feasts eternal.