Free Verse

The Earth's People

October 31, 2025

The Earth has its own wings The feathers are people They fought

They died

Their people cried

A part survived in the mountain

It kept them safe past

death's day

They said to them

The sun has a day

Death has a day

The earth day is in the mountain.

It is a place you stay

Now the mountain people

Call to the mountain people.

They have a home.

They have a song.

The wind sings.

Earth has it's own wings. The feathers are people. They fought. They died

Their people cried.

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▾ This Poem's Voice

Blends personal loss with abstract philosophy about death, survival, collective memory.

Multiple compressed ideas: death, survival, mountains as refuge, cyclical time, community.

Melancholic but redemptive; death and grief balanced by survival and belonging.

Staccato fragments create urgency; repetition drives momentum without explosive intensity.

Approximately 24 lines; falls within 16-30 line range.

Rich metaphors: earth with wings, people as feathers, mountain as sanctuary and temporal anchor.

Primarily lyric with emergent narrative voice; shifts from personal grief to communal address.

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