mama chicken
struts with great confidence
for one wrangling chicks.
Chick Wrangling [Senryū]
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Category Archives: Farming
Pillbox Bunker [Tanka]
pillbox bunker from
a war a lifetime ago
sits in a field.
what the farmer must think
as he plants around it.
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Empty Pasture [Haiku]
in woods' shade,
cattle sit or stand, &
file barn-ward at dusk.
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“Crops” by Walter de la Mare [w/ Audio]
Farmer Giles has cut his rye;
Oh my! Oh my!
Farmer Bates has cut his wheat;
Och, the thieving hares in it!
Farmer Turvey's cut his barley;
Ripe and early, ripe and early.
And where day breaks, rousing not,
Farmer Weary's cut his throat.
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DAILY PHOTO: Views from Atop Uttari Betta
Slim Pickings [Haiku]
Post-Harvest Mars [Haiku]
hazy valley:
stubble fire smoke glows like
a Martian landscape.
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Riderless [Senryū]
riderless horses
race across the pasture:
finish line unknown
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“Aftermath” by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow [w/ Audio]
When the summer fields are mown,
When the birds are fledged and flown,
And the dry leaves strew the path;
With the falling of the snow,
With the cawing of the crow,
Once again the fields we mow
And gather in the aftermath.
Not the sweet, new grass with flowers
Is this harvesting of ours;
Not the upland clover bloom;
But the rowen mixed with weeds,
Tangled tufts from marsh and meads,
Where the poppy drops its seeds
In the silence and the gloom.
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Livestock Rush Hour [Haiku]
horde of livestock
sprawls puddle-strewn lane
between downpours.
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