Autumn's Bounty

Autumn's bounty now waits in the fields.
Sowers and keepers of the crops are

Now replaced by energetic reapers.
Dry and ready for the combine;

Brown and ripe for the harvesting;
The corn to feed the world;

The soybeans to ease hunger;
Cotton to cloth all mankind.

Like a kid fixated in wonderment,
I stop and stare along the roadside;

Observing massive machines of steel,
Rolling along the dusty fields,

Cutting and threshing and separating
the seed from the hull; corn from cobs.

The big rigs are loaded and heading
to the storage bends and buyers.

091622PS
Copyright © | Year Posted 2022

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Dietrich Avatar
September 16, 2022 at 8:17 PM
I really like this. It's so "down home."
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