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Critical Analysis #1

the Tillerman

ShadowRider
Senior Member

since 2001-07-14

Posts 1038
USA

0 posted 2001-10-12 08:25 PM

                "the Tillerman"

     sunsmiled bronze paragon of labor
        watches over breathing fields waving in recognition
     he, who is the first to roll the dawn over
        and the last to put it to bed

     o, animals of clover, of wheat
        who defer to his soothing nurturing
     yet, shudder at the swing of his scythe
        for they know only too well
     how it cuts both ways

     then, under a crystalline morning
        his hoe blade stopped by buried past
     bleach of skeleton hands clutching a small chest
        he parts the fertile sowed soil
     seeing the turbulent tears shed by the solider
        forever acid-burned in his rusted locker box
    The tillerman, full of infinite sympathies opens
        the wound of the chest, spilling out a decaying Union Jack

     he sighs, knowing one must dig deep
       to find the Cost of Freedom

Jeen
Member

since 2000-06-07

Posts 91

1 posted 2001-10-13 04:42 PM

Hi

I though this was an excellent piece. I felt it, I was there on the field reading.

Thanks
Jeen

[This message has been edited by Jeen (edited 10-13-2001).]

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