Poetry Grass

I blow here in the prairie wind, A grass that seems to have no end. A pheasant asked me yesterday, "How long you been here would you say?" I scratched my blades and said, "Who knows? Ten thousand years or more, I s'pose." An' then the bird said,"If you please- When were you really most at ease?" I laughed at that, the way grass does, That sounds somewhat like bees abuzz. Then said,"That's easy friend, why shucks, Between fences and pickup trucks! The fences stopped the thunderin' herd, An' no trucks were yet to be heard. It was so peaceful, full of hope, I was knee deep to antelope." All that thinkin' got me upset - I told that bird the trials we'd met! "The Humans talk with grief an' scorn Of long gone Bison and Longhorn - Listen, pheasant, and I will tell, The Buffalo can burn in Hell! An' Longhorn meat will surely make A big fat piece of butcher's steak!" Well, I was through and I calmed down - The Pheasant, nervous, looked around. Said," I been eatin' a little seed." I laughed, said,"Friend, take all you need!" April 29, 2016