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Hard Times |
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Tim Senior Member
since 1999-06-08
Posts 1794 |
Forty-seven feet and not an inch more, Faded cracked windows and a rough hewed oak door, A coyote is howling down in Smith's draw, Whil'st six children are sleeping, as are Aunty and Ma. There's a 'coon on the ridge with hounds on his scent, Aunt Jenny's egg money has long since been spent, Ain't gonna have harvest, the corn done burnt dry, It's been nigh on two months, with nary a cloud in the sky. Things ain't lookin' so good, but we will make do, 'Cause mama says so, and the "Good Book" does too, Pa he done left us, he up and died, Three weeks ago Sunday, us kids we all cried. Billy Joe is the oldest, he just turned ten, Things will get better, we just don't know when, There's a cross on the knoll, out past the door, Some forty-seven feet and not an inch more. |
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katahdin Senior Member
since 2010-07-01
Posts 1196ME. In the Shadow of the Mt. |
Nicely done, enjoyed! |
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Earl Brinkman Senior Member
since 2010-03-03
Posts 1183Osaka, Japan |
Nicely written and moving. A poem that deserves to be read by others. |
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Sunshine
Administrator
Member Empyrean
since 1999-06-25
Posts 63354Listening to every heart |
Sir, Your judgment of times past is a scratch on today's door...just most of them don't know it yet. You hold the Bible in your hands, your read is read on the promised land; it all depends on who reads the facts...it's a promise, in all God's acts. You sit, a prophet, of times gone bad, you lay a carpet for those who had a moment in space, in time and place and now they don't know a better space. Cliche' it's true, but they don't know the trampling to come, on life they know but insistant you, and I, might be... and send forth goodness in spite, in spite... Because we know, we know... it can be saved.... |
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Yuka Member
since 2010-08-19
Posts 71china |
moving! enjoyed! |
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easy1 Senior Member
since 2010-05-22
Posts 1209Southeastern USA |
Yeah, this is good stuff... and can't I and too many others relate to the Masada feeling these days. |
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Cpat Hair
since 2001-06-05
Posts 11793 |
well done sir.. your piece took me back to stories shared of such hard times in my own family... |
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passing shadows Member Empyrean
since 1999-08-26
Posts 45577displaced |
this was touching |
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Novus_Os Member
since 2010-07-21
Posts 115West Coast, USA |
Hey Tim, I really liked this one. It hearkens back to another time and place in America. Wonderfully done. Enjoyed it very much. Regards, Novus_Os Life is meant to be enjoyed, not just endured. |
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Eusta B. Mae Senior Member
since 2010-05-03
Posts 903 |
I enjoyed this very much...It captured that time and the people. ebm |
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vandana
since 1999-10-22
Posts 10463USA |
enjoyed  |
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