Baling Poems

Premium MemberA 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

Premium Memberjust 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


Premium MemberBaling 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

Premium MemberNo 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


Premium MemberCauliflower 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

Premium MemberRide

...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

Premium MemberA 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

Premium MemberGetting 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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