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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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