Lyric Poem · Hope
Seed Beneath the Ground
The earth makes no announcement
when winter's grip lets go —
just crocuses, like trumpets,
come shouldering through snow.
And that's the Easter sermon,
delivered without sound:
whatever looks like ending
is seed beneath the ground.
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Quick facts
- Poem
- Seed Beneath the Ground
- Poet
- The QuillOak Editors
- Length
- 8 lines
- Form
- Lyric Poem, Rhyming Poems
- Themes
- Hope, Spring
Craft notes
How this poem works
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- Shape
- 8 lines · 2 quatrains
- Line length
- Mostly 6-syllable lines (trimeter length).
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Text, source & rights
A traceable edition
Original QuillOak text. Personal sharing is permitted; other reuse requires permission.
- Author record
- The QuillOak Editorstoday
- Source record
- QuillOak originalSeed Beneath the Ground, authored for QuillOak by The Quillery
- Display decision
- Full text · United States · reviewed 2026-07-18
- Publication record
- Not recorded in the imported source
- Text fingerprint
- SHA-256 10bb1e9a248176cc…
- Editorial handling
- Whitespace and stanza breaks normalized for web display; no material wording change recorded.
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