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In The Quiet Field
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In The Quiet Field |
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Paul Allen Lupien Member
since 1999-09-09
Posts 114Ferndale,Mi.USA |
Tearer of the land, life-bringer,crop-cutter,iron reaper, still now,as defeated and abandoned by the hand of man, the monster lies quiet and unremembered, gashing no more, no more pushed to plod and prod, its field to lie unfurrowed, once hallowed,fallow now forever as all that of the oft-birthed fruit born from the sweat of the skies -no more- along with the sowers,family reapers, who had trod that precious sod while holding tightly to harvest dreams and smoothed-out wooden handles -now all that consumed- both the sustainers and their sustenance devoured by the tastings and testings of the lost and forgotten laboured years which spit all out and turned its many backs to relegate- both the tillers and their toils and all the spoils of their warring days against sun,dust,cloud and storm- to ultimate obscurity. So marks the rusted harvester, mid-field,unused,unwanted,unmoved, imbedded as plant to earth. It is one now with the womb soil and will no more boldly cut swath as in the summers of its youth when it gleamed at the sun it reflected. Rejected now, its metal roots impaled within the barren grooves of the paths it once knew, it is without purpose and is never touched but by the wind which does not care about such things. ------------------ |
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Sunshine
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Member Empyrean
since 1999-06-25
Posts 63354Listening to every heart |
Welcome Paul...to Passions in Poetry. Your words will show the Easteners and others what the mid-West is all about. Well done Sir! We look forward to much more from you! ------------------ Sunshine Words will always express our feelings true. ~~~ KRJ Look, then, into thine heart, and write ~~~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
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Pepper Member Elite
since 1999-08-19
Posts 3079Southern Florida |
extremely well written....I also look forward to more of your work Paul.... ------------------ May your days be filled with lots of sunshine and your nights lit up by golden moonbeams |
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hoot_owl_rn Member Patricius
since 1999-07-05
Posts 10750Glen Hope, PA USA |
Wow...wonderfully done here. Very good use of imagery. This poem flows with a life of it's own. Welcome to the group and I will be looking forward to more postings from you. ------------------ "Nobody has measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold" ~Zelda Fitzgerald |
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Balladeer
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Member Empyrean
since 1999-06-05
Posts 25505Ft. Lauderdale, Fl USA |
Better that excellent! imagery is terrific. Writing a poignant poem about a farm implement is not something I would ever attempt and you made it look easy. |
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Denise
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Member Seraphic
since 1999-08-22
Posts 22648 |
Very well done, indeed!  ------------------ Denise |
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Paul Allen Lupien Member
since 1999-09-09
Posts 114Ferndale,Mi.USA |
Thanks to all of you for your kind words of appreciation.It was a very pleasant welcoming to receive such positive responses. Regarding the poem itself,I have wondered if the dual burials (of the reaper itself and the farmer who had used it-both of them "imbedded as plant to earth")was noticable. Hope so.Anyway,thanks again and I look forward our mutual inter-facings with great relish. Paul ------------------ |
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Pepper Member Elite
since 1999-08-19
Posts 3079Southern Florida |
yes Paul, it was noticed..... ------------------ May your days be filled with lots of sunshine and your nights lit up by golden moonbeams |
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