Bethany Rohde https://emilydteatraveler.com/author/bethany-rohde/ Tea. Places. Poetry. Life. This is Emily D Tea Traveler. Thu, 17 Jun 2021 17:33:12 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.4 https://i0.wp.com/emilydteatraveler.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/cropped-Travel-with-Emily-D.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Bethany Rohde https://emilydteatraveler.com/author/bethany-rohde/ 32 32 193151920 DIP INTO THE SPOON OF AN OAK https://emilydteatraveler.com/nature-tea-poem-dip-into-the-spoon-of-an-oak/ Thu, 17 Jun 2021 17:32:00 +0000 https://emilydteatraveler.com/?p=466 "Dip into the spoon of an oak..." A beautiful freeform found poem from Bethany Rohde—with oak, emerald, and a surprising way home.

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Dip into the spoon of an oak
where emerald air steeps an inward morning
and you read the covering of leaves as home

—Bethany Rohde

 
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Says Bethany, “I was inspired by How to Write a Form Poem, and decided to craft a freeform found poem. My source material is three articles at Emily D. Tea Traveler. I made minor [grammatical] alterations to three of the words. The three sources are…

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