Poetry page; Ballerina's Song of the Earth


                            Ballerina's Song of the Earth was first published in Ouroboros Review 
and also appears in Tessitura.

The poem begins - 

Ballerina’s Song of the Earth
(for Darcey Bussell)
Just to the north   high on the crown
of Sorton Tor there’s a metamorphosis
of rocks    beneath my feet
this moor-scape edge   grass hillocks on
greenearth salted with dew

She sashayed    
  down from mid-grey skies  - 
     Ballerina!
You must have seen her
  dancing

on the ground


I began to write Ballerina's Song after a visit to Sourton tor on Dartmoor. I wrote some notes about the poem for a project at
Understanding Landscape at Exeter University