Spinning Earth by Penny Luker
The backlit sky was pink and gold
and silhouettes of trees stood proud,
like guards protecting Earth’s treasures.
The land was blanketed with frost,
and narrow furrows, hard and straight,
lay forgotten as the world slept.
Layered clouds hid the winter sun,
which tried to warm the frozen ground,
but Spring’s relief came soon enough.
Badgers cleared out last year’s debris,
dug fresh tunnels in rich red earth
and waited for life’s new cycle.
Penny Luker has joined the ATG team as the assistant writings editor and is enjoying reading the submissions. She writes poems and short stories and is in the middle of producing her first novel. She has been the press officer for her local branch of the Soroptimist International for two years and had some educational material published by Cheshire Education Services. Penny has been a teacher and head teacher in Cheshire and is now enjoying lecturing for the Open University.
