DAILY PHOTO: Onion Fields
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Gone to Seed [Free Verse]
abandoned farmstead -- a blip in the flat-wide spaces of the industrial-agro-manufactured prairie the barn, dilapidated the vehicles & implements, rusted weeds growing from every crack tall, blonde grass - waving like ripe wheat - stands in both front & back yards something has died on the prairie something is returning to dust & weed something is lost
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DAILY PHOTO: From Hill to Farm
Cowbell [Haiku]
the cow barely moves, and yet its clang is constant from tugging dry grass
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A Farmer’s Reverie [Haiku]
with field cleared, the farmer leans on his scythe, and eyes cloud figures
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Tractor [Free Verse]
the tractor idles in the end-row, chugging and sputtering, with a rattling exhaust flap soon the tractor lurches into straight-line locomotion, chugging down the row, carving out furrows, peeling soft, black soil aside the cut worm does not forgive, but neither does it know what hit it -- some thunderous storm, monotonously rolling nearer - becoming more all-pervading - until it starts to fade, but by then the worm is halved everything becomes something else: worm aerates soil and then becomes food for the tugging bird
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Buckwheat [Haiku]
blossoming buckwheat pretends to be a path behind the ripe rice
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DAILY PHOTO: A Rocky Top View of Farmland
Autumn Bales [Haiku]
in autumn, hay bales cast long shadows on close-cropped fields
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Mountain Oasis [Haiku]
in pale-brown mountains, we round a curve to see a lush oasis
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