Get Your Premium Membership

Heart-Attack

There are frozen furrows in the Earth where the plow made love to Terra. It looks so pitiful in the dead of winter, with no vegetable detritus on the ground to attest to any kind of harvest. For control over the forces of nature, many have struck a blade into the earth and ruptured her trust in spring. They say that when your cart is full of corn, it is easy to counsel frugality to your neighbors. This would have been a killing field, had the seeds been planted. Had control been granted. But it is icy. Here the weak sun is rising to cast its pall light on the scape where the would-be prometheus collapsed, and his ventricles ceased to allow his defiance of the Gods.

Copyright © | Year Posted 2009




Post Comments

Poetrysoup is an environment of encouragement and growth so only provide specific positive comments that indicate what you appreciate about the poem.

Please Login to post a comment

Date: 6/3/2010 11:47:00 AM
Congratulations on your poetry making it through the first round Geoffery. I wish you the best in the finals. Love, Carol
Login to Reply
Date: 6/2/2010 6:07:00 PM
Congratulations on making it through the first round of the Poetry Soup contest with this poem. Best wishes in the finals. Karen
Login to Reply
Date: 5/28/2010 6:59:00 PM
Geoffery -Congratulations on having your poetry featured this week, God Bless, mj
Login to Reply
Date: 5/25/2010 5:26:00 AM
Congratulations on your poetry being featured this week Geoffrey. May you have many more features and may you find loads of inspiration along the way. Love, Carol
Login to Reply
Date: 5/24/2010 1:27:00 PM
Loved this Geoffrey - you described the bleakness of winter well. Many congrats on your feature. Rgds Janette
Login to Reply
Date: 5/23/2010 4:05:00 PM
The vivid imagery carries your thoughts in a creative way. Congratulations on having your poem featured. Keep that pen flowing. Karen
Login to Reply
Date: 11/7/2009 12:27:00 PM
love the style in your writes--Charma
Login to Reply
Date: 10/9/2009 5:00:00 AM
Love it and thank you for commenting on my poem
Login to Reply
Date: 10/7/2009 10:51:00 PM
You seem to be an "out of the box" thinker. I like that. Great piece. Donna
Login to Reply
Date: 10/7/2009 12:59:00 AM
Geoffrey, this is AWESOME! Very powerful thought evoking writing. BRILLIANT! Love, Lainie
Login to Reply
Date: 10/6/2009 6:13:00 PM
I like this as well as all your works...Thanks Marty
Login to Reply
Date: 10/6/2009 6:03:00 PM
That is quite a field Geoffery.It sounds like it could give one a heart-attack....Must have been a strong man indeed. Good Keep writing and I'll keep reading. Thanks for sharing. Enjoyed. Take care Love Light Truth Patricia
Login to Reply
Date: 10/6/2009 4:37:00 PM
Sounds like a strong man that had worked those fields. Keep writing. Sara
Login to Reply

Book: Shattered Sighs