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