A Farmer's Right Proud
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Tilling the fields ‘neath a hot blazing sun
Removing the weeds when the rain's pouring down
Baling the hay in the heat and humidity
Breathe the dust of the chicken co...
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Categories:
baling, dedication, farm, grave, pride,
Form: Couplet
just an old barn
...calf's fed from bottles
summers of baling hay bales
playing in hayloft...
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Categories:
baling, farm,
Form: Haiku
Baling Hay
...BALING HAY
We three are farmer girls primarily.
named as Alice, Linda and Emily.
belonging to same peasant family
of almost same ...
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Categories:
baling, family, farm, girl,
Form: Rhyme
No Title, Yet - 44
...It's the big moments in life that most people remember,
But it's the moments in between which we should dwell upon.
Our lives are memories that can be very tender.
Thy only happen once and, in an ...
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Categories:
baling, writing,
Form: Rhyme
Monsters In My Head
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"Monsters in My Head"
the small gods
inside of us
worry too much
they speak in tongues
that never know the
depth of what is real or not
for tongues
they nev...
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Categories:
baling, dark, i am, light,
Form: Narrative
Cauliflower Heart
...Every defeat and sorrow takes a chunk of heart
time spent bridging cracks-soothing scars.
Infrequent visits to overgrown graves
cackling to a God that never answers back
navigating second hand ...
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Categories:
baling, age, loss,
Form: Free verse
Ride
...Held together with baling wire
the smaller bits of life
hang like chaff
then float away
on the dawn’s whisper
of each drowning day.
Be prepared to salvage
one savored moment
amidst the fall...
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Categories:
baling, hero,
Form: Free verse
A Gal Who Grew Up In a Barn
...Gather round while I spin a yarn
'bout a young gal, grew up in a barn
With horses and cows, she had her own stall
She loved taking care of them, most of all
She'd feed the horses and milk e...
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Categories:
baling, farm, flying, horse,
Form: Narrative
Baling Hay
...BALING HAY
Rain rain Come on down Come on down
Need to Go to town Go to town
Trac-tor Keeps a bump- ing a-long
Need rain On the hot Day to-day
On rack Be-hind, it's ...
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Categories:
baling, endurance, jobs, june, perspective,
Form: Free verse
Memories--Baling Hay
...Baling hay
On the most hot day of the summer
Was when the hay fields were ready to cut
The smell of the fresh cut hay is something you never forget. As the tractor runs along the field
A rabbit ...
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Categories:
baling, family, farm, work,
Form: Free verse
Covid Blues
...They haven’t come for many weeks
the men who mow my grass
at level 4 in lock-down too
they haven’t had the chance
to venture out,
the price too high,
their bubble they can’t break
but honestly...
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Categories:
baling, hope, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
Getting Ready For Winter
...Sawing logs, one after another
Into two feet lengths
Just for the specific purpose
Of standing them up on the ground
Awaiting the iron axe
That will create a comforting
Roaring fire in the hear...
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Categories:
baling, autumn, blessing, fruit, seasons,
Form: Free verse
Simple Days
...He was born in the Georgia clay
drank sweet tea everyday
It was rise and shine at the crack of dawn
as the rooster sang his song
Milk the cows and bale the hay
b...
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Categories:
baling, allegory, america, culture, meaningful,
Form: Rhyme
Endurance
...You wouldn't believe what I've been thro' lately,
I'm supposed to be on holiday, okay
but not okay - recovering from an operation,
was not my idea of any decent elation.
Then there were other t...
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Categories:
baling, emotions, endurance, future, happiness,
Form: Prose
Mountain Home At Dusk
...He knew a world of lesser life,
"miles from here and everywhere," he'd often quip.
He sat in a swing hung from chains, soaking up nature
after the fence mending and baling of hay was done.
Time t...
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Categories:
baling, beauty, character, childhood, farm,
Form: Free verse
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