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Xenolith

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For dVerse Poets Pub – Where Melissa is our host.

Today our petite poems of exactly 44 words must include a word provided by your dVerse host, and today, that word begins with X, the first-ever quadrille word beginning with x: xenolith, a fragment of foreign rock trapped inside a larger igneous rock.

Quadrille #255: X marks the spot

Xenolith

I thought belonging
meant becoming one thing,
one place,
one stone.

Then I learned
how mountains remember:
carrying foreign pieces
without asking them to disappear.

Perhaps I am a xenolith—
an older landscape
held inside
the life I chose,
still carrying another home within.

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37 responses to “Xenolith”

  1. Carol anne Avatar
    Carol anne

    that is just gorgeous! xo

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    1. Maggie Avatar
      Maggie

      Thank you Carol anne 😘

      Happy you enjoyed it.

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  2. poetisatinta Avatar
    poetisatinta

    How beautiful Maggie 💕

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    1. Maggie Avatar
      Maggie

      Thank you Ange ❤️

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  3. Arcadia Maria Avatar
    Arcadia Maria

    Wow. I like where you took this prompt. Great poem.

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    1. Maggie Avatar
      Maggie

      Thank you so much 💜

      Happy you enjoyed my take.

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  4. rothpoetry Avatar
    rothpoetry

    I love your imagination on this one, Maggie! Some would believe that is true!

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    1. Maggie Avatar
      Maggie

      Thank you, Dwight! 💜 The meaning of xenolith immediately caught my imagination — something from one place carried within another felt like such a beautiful metaphor for the pieces of our past and our homes that we carry with us. I’m glad you enjoyed where my imagination took it!

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  5. kaykuala Avatar
    kaykuala

    held inside
    the life I chose,
    still carrying another home within

    A good close Maggie! We decide our life! It may not meet our aspirations but will eventually!

    Hank

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    1. Maggie Avatar
      Maggie

      Thank you so much, Hank. 💜 I’m glad the ending spoke to you. I loved the idea of a xenolith as a metaphor — something from another place held within something new, without losing what it originally was. I think our lives can be a little like that too; we choose our paths, but we still carry pieces of where we came from. Thank you for your thoughtful words.

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  6. Melissa Lemay Avatar
    Melissa Lemay

    Your poem reminds me of an M. C. Escher painting.🥰

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    1. Maggie Avatar
      Maggie

      Thank you so much, Melissa! 💜 What a wonderful comparison — I hadn’t thought of M. C. Escher while writing it, but now that you’ve said it, I can see that idea of one world existing within another.
      You gave my stone-loving imagination a wonderful word to play with!
      Thank you for such an inspiring prompt.

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  7. shaun tenzenmen Avatar
    shaun tenzenmen

    “how mountains remember” 👏 Well done Maggie 👏

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    1. Maggie Avatar
      Maggie

      Thank you Shaun 💜

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  8. mihrankalaydjianblog Avatar
    mihrankalaydjianblog

    I really enjoyed this, Magz! Such a fascinating and beautifully written piece you have a wonderful way of turning an unusual subject into something memorable and thought-provoking. ❤️

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    1. Maggie Avatar
      Maggie

      Thank you so much, Mihran. 💜

      What a beautiful comment.

      I have to admit, when I first saw xenolith as the prompt word, I wondered what on earth I was going to do with it!
      Then the little stone took me somewhere completely unexpected. I’m so happy you enjoyed it.

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  9. Björn Rudberg (brudberg) Avatar
    Björn Rudberg (brudberg)

    I think we are individuals, but sometimes everyone rest blurs to a collective… love the thought you used.

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    1. Maggie Avatar
      Maggie

      Thank you, Björn. 💜 I love that thought — that we remain individuals even when, from a distance, we can appear to become part of a collective. Perhaps that is what fascinated me about the xenolith: it belongs to the larger stone now, but it never completely stops being itself.

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  10. kim881 Avatar
    kim881

    Your xenolith quadrille touched me, Maggie, and I love the thought of being an ‘older landscape held inside the life I chose’.

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    1. Maggie Avatar
      Maggie

      Thank you so much, Kim. 💜
      I think this little quadrille unexpectedly became a continuation of Two Homes. That idea of an older landscape still living inside the life we chose seemed to fit the xenolith perfectly.
      We can belong completely to where we are now without losing the places that helped shape us. I’m so glad it touched you.

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      1. kim881 Avatar
        kim881

        My pleasure, Maggie, and I did think of Two Homes as I read it. 💕

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  11. Gillena Cox Avatar
    Gillena Cox

    Luv that philosophical rendering in your last verse

    much love

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    1. Maggie Avatar
      Maggie

      Thank you so much, Gillena. 💜

      I’m glad the ending spoke to you. Somewhere along the way, that little piece of foreign stone became much more than geology for me.

      Much love back to you. 💜

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  12. sreeja Harikrishnan Avatar
    sreeja Harikrishnan

    WOW, absolutely loved this!

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    1. Maggie Avatar
      Maggie

      Thank you so much, Sreeja! 💜🥹
      I’m so happy you loved it. This little xenolith took me somewhere I wasn’t expecting at all.

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  13. Sadje Avatar
    Sadje

    A lovely take Maggie

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    1. Maggie Avatar
      Maggie

      Thank you Sadje ❤️💜

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      1. Sadje Avatar
        Sadje

        You’re welcome ☺️

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  14. Rosemary Nissen-Wade Avatar
    Rosemary Nissen-Wade

    I love that idea!

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  15. Reena Saxena Avatar
    Reena Saxena

    We are different landscapes, not necessarily older or younger.

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    1. Maggie Avatar
      Maggie

      I love the way you put that, Reena — different landscapes. 💜 Each shaped by our own storms, seasons and journeys, yet neither measured by age. Thank you.

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      1. Reena Saxena Avatar
        Reena Saxena

        😍

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  16. merrildsmith Avatar
    merrildsmith

    “Then I learned
    how mountains remember:” I love that!

    Beautiful poem of affirmation.

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    1. Maggie Avatar
      Maggie

      Thank you so much, Merril. 💜 I loved that line too — the thought that mountains carry their history within them, just as we do. Perhaps remembering is part of what shapes us.

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      1. merrildsmith Avatar
        merrildsmith

        You’re welcome, Maggie. 💙
        I think memory does shape us, so why not earth, mountains, oceans, stars?

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  17. M.A.D. Works Avatar
    M.A.D. Works

    Wow, beautiful Maggie

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    1. Maggie Avatar
      Maggie

      Thank you so much Missy 💜

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