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Startime1955
Senior Member

since 2012-04-22

Posts 1072
Alberta, Canada

0 posted 2012-07-29 06:45 PM

Summer Harvest

Wheat turns golden in summer heat
Ripens and ready to harvest
Fields turn blue with flax seed flowers
Mustard seed flowers shine yellow
Science blends mustard and rape seed
Creating canola for miles

Farmers prepare for summers work
Making repairs to the combines
Hiring truck and semi drivers
Watching crops for just the right time
Praying the weather will hold true
Left at the summer heats mercy

Wheat light yellow in gentle breeze
Rye a deeper gold fills sections
Canola becomes a bright yellow
Sweet corn stretches for miles
Children run mazes in the fall
Beets are turned into pure sugar

The food basket is full this year
Our crops are rich and bountiful
Nature blesses us with our needs
Harmony spreading through the land
As great-full hearts sing out their thanks
And families gather round the hearth

Is there anything that compares
To farmers and helpers working
To feed mankind over the world
From sunup to way past sundown
Taking in the crops that feed us
During a late summer harvest

Karen Mc Neil
July 29, 2012

JerryPat2
Member Laureate

since 2011-02-06

Posts 16975
South Louisiana

1 posted 2012-07-29 07:35 PM

This is a wonderful tribute to the growers of food for the billions throughout the world, Karen. A one-two-three punch of planting, cultivating, and harvesting. Great poem. Great energy here.

~*~ If they give you ruled paper write sideways. ~*~

latearrival
Member Ascendant

since 2003-03-21

Posts 5499
Florida

2 posted 2012-07-30 12:51 PM

oh yes, nothing better than our great farmers.we need more owner farms.jo

JamesMichael
Member Empyrean

since 1999-11-16

Posts 33336
Kapolei, Hawaii, USA

3 posted 2012-07-30 09:55 PM

Fine expressive writing...James

Startime1955
Senior Member

since 2012-04-22

Posts 1072
Alberta, Canada

4 posted 2012-07-30 10:08 PM

I have a lot of respect for the farmers...I went for a drive yesterday and seeing the miles and miles of fields waiting to be havested inspired me so much I had to write about it...Thank you all for reading...*BIG HUGS*

*may our dreams ever be magical*

OwlSA
Member Rara Avis

since 2005-11-07

Posts 9347
Durban, South Africa

5 posted 2012-07-31 03:39 AM

Startime, it must be a wonderful feeling to be one of those workers harvesting fields of golden wheat. I bet they sleep well.

Owl

Startime1955
Senior Member

since 2012-04-22

Posts 1072
Alberta, Canada

6 posted 2012-07-31 09:24 AM

owl...I do know for a fact that many of them take great pleasure in the harvest...seeing it all safely is very comforting...thanks for the comment..*BIG HUGS*

*may our dreams ever be magical*

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