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For this exhibit, Boozer used samples of excavated sedimentary rock and soil found at the nearby construction site of CityCenterDC, to recreate a geologically accurate linear progression of the earth below the gallery and city, by laying stratum after stratum in a narrow lengthwise band down the centre of the gallery floor.
The Eye of the Earth is a collection of poems by Niyi Osundare, published in 1986 by Heinemann Educational Books. The work was awarded the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for the African poetry book category, and the Association of Nigerian Authors' Poetry Prize in its year of publication. The collection comprises nineteen poems that explore nature ...
This poem is the verse 40 in the Kuruntokai anthology. The image of "red earth and pouring rain" evokes pictures of the first monsoon rains falling on the red-earthed hills typical of the Tamil lands to mingle with the dry, parched soil forming a cool, damp clay, and of the flowers blooming in the rain.
The section contains quotes from poems by Hallfreðr vandræðaskáld and Þjóðólfr of Hvinir. [23] The Nafnaþulur section of Skáldskaparmál includes Jörð in a list of ásynjur names. [24] Additionally, as the common noun jörð also simply means 'earth', references to earth occur throughout the Prose Edda. [25]
Ecopoetry is any poetry with a strong ecological or environmental emphasis or message. Many poets and poems in the past have expressed ecological concerns, but only recently has there been an established term to describe them; there is now, in English-speaking poetry, a recognisable subgenre of poetry, termed Ecopoetry, which can, on occasions, form a major strand of a writer's career ...
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Clean dirt or dust can be a substitute for someone who is performing ablutions in the absence of clean water, a practice known as tayammum. Turbah is also found in the context of funerals because of death's association with dust, as a dead body returns to earth.