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Tim
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since 1999-06-08

Posts 1794

0 posted 2005-06-11 12:06 PM

Wheatfields stand in sodden wait
For the combine’s swath,
While above the stormclouds roil,
In towering blackened froth,
A farmer eyes from sheltered barn,
Lightening strikes combusting
Like cold steel of Thor’s great sword,
Sky to earth a thrusting.
Then hail commences its attack,
Upon defenseless grain,
Heads and stalks knocked to the ground,
To drown in springtime rain.
A farmer walks out to his field,
Where once his wheat had been
As a setting sun peeks through the clouds,
And kneels, soaked to the skin,
He lifts his eyes up to the heavens,
And asks quite simply, Why?
Then rises up and walks away,
His back turned to the sky.
Returning back to faded barn,
No words, no angry rant,
For there is work that needs be done,
There's milo seed to plant.
http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/news/local/11854659.htm

It is harvest time, but the nightly deluge of rain; hail; and tornadoes have put a damper on the commece of wheat harvest here on the plains.

bslicker

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since 2000-12-04

Posts 2321
state of mind

1 posted 2005-06-11 03:13 AM

enjoyed
bernie

A smile a day keeps the world in smile's.
Bernie Slicker

Sunshine

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since 1999-06-25

Posts 63354
Listening to every heart

2 posted 2005-06-11 08:58 AM

The gamble a farmer takes,
he who pours his soul into the soil
cannot be appreciated
by a concrete walker...

well done, Sir!

babygirlwlove
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since 2004-10-10

Posts 1180
New York City

3 posted 2005-06-11 09:02 AM

oh damn...**feeling this***

love&light,
**babygirL**

**Intoxicant to the SouL**

arthur
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since 2001-08-14

Posts 678
england

4 posted 2005-06-11 04:24 PM

this gave me great pleasure
both in its construction and in its imagery
i also liked the ending-the accetance and the need to move on
ta
arthur
uk

Margherita
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since 2003-02-08

Posts 22236
Eternity

5 posted 2005-06-11 06:38 PM

Dear Tim,
you have written a truly powerful and touching poem here.
This feeling of extreme sadness for the destruction weighs heavy on me as if I was in the farmer's shoes while reading.
Why, indeed!

And then the strength to go on ... encouraging ending.

Love, Margherita

Enchantress
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since 2001-08-14

Posts 35113
Canada eh.

6 posted 2005-06-11 06:41 PM

Excellent write..well done and most enjoyed.
Hugs~Nancy

~Somewhere in my heart I'm always
dancing with you in the summer rain~

passing shadows
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since 1999-08-26

Posts 45577
displaced

7 posted 2005-06-12 07:45 AM

cool

Mysteria

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since 2001-03-07

Posts 18328
British Columbia, Canada

8 posted 2005-06-12 10:18 AM

Being from Manitoba where wheat is one of the main crops, I have seen this as well. So sad when they work that hard and the weather does not take their side. Tender thoughts in this write Tim.

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