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Prairie Graveyard

Reckless tumbleweed hurries across forgotten graves of those who toiled through despair and anguish fighting drought and famine depression and unemployment heat and cold locusts and dust storms daily uncertainty...

Copyright © | Year Posted 2008




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Date: 9/3/2008 6:05:00 PM
Perfect poetic description...Like a sad painting of a prairie graveyard, so much history of their hard lives, just reading the tombstones tells a tale .... ~ Carrie
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Date: 9/3/2008 5:17:00 PM
I remember the pictures and the desolation. This is a good description. Vince
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Date: 9/3/2008 4:17:00 PM
I am from the prairies, and yes, the settlers sure did have it hard - the hardest! My ancestors went through hell and back for freedom. Lovely haunting poem, love Kristin
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