Best Harvesting Poems

As nectarine wanderings of
         plum shadow wishes collect
         neath apple cider lips now
          sticky with nectarous flowings
upon pulsating peach blossom...

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growth, nature, rain, seasons, summer, word play,

MIGHTY SUNFLOWERS © TANKA

Sunflowers in fields 
Bowing to the rising sun
Turning faced upwards
Withholding their mighty stocks
As all roots knit asunder!

growth, nature, rain, seasons, summer, word play,
 
HARVESTING © TANKA

Rain drops call from clouds
Wet the now blackening soil
New roots drink...

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How do we harvest light? 
We dig through the darkness. 
When light is a turnip
Growing in the rocky Newfoundland soil
Digging through the darkness
Hands bloody and torn
Digging into my past
Through trauma
Stories and roots 
Block the path
Rocks and fears
Make the work
Challenging, draining
Often I need to rest
Light is...

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Deep water divers

           collect slowly cultured gems,

              pearls from dark waters......

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Harvesting 



The bright of the morning 
allured to reap crops
Grasses on the ground, 
admired decision, full of love
Glow from the east, 
Accelerated births of desire 
of all creation of the earth
whispered do that.

Rising sun for the day 
A farmer's mind for the cultivate 
Intrigued and...

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For years and years and a few more years, it now seems clearer to me,
That we’ve lived well, in the nutshell of our small town obscurity.

Life has been grand, on two acres of land of which I can’t lament.
Though living tall, we’ve kept things small,...

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I have been finishing up Sacred Economics during this time of fall harvest and thanksgiving. I have enjoyed this read especially as I add in vocabulary and analogy from my background in Permaculture Design and Community Development.

Eisenstein's economics of a more beautiful world 
follows the...

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I’m put upon to ponder the problem of poetry
& thus, I proudly or, perhaps, perfunctorily,
Ponderously pronounce with a preponderance,
Even a plethora, of p’s:

Poetry is pithy, prankish and perky,
Pertinent and impertinent, too
It’s prophetic, pathetic, pragmatic and proud

Poetry pretends, preaches, points out,
Points to, and down, and under

Poetry’s...

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I’m behind her eyes throughout the night,
I’m playing with her dream.
She doesn’t realise it’s me that knows,
Shadows aren’t as they seem.

I make her feel comfort, safe and secure, 
As snug as a bug in a rug.
She doesn’t realise my smoke’s more than toxic, 
A dreamy...

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Mine gerund farming, tilling, and harvesting illogical weltanschauung

Twas accursed destiny
since birth (maybe coded in
deoxyribonucleic acid  
since time immemorial) alas and alack
nascent emasculation abominable barrack
emergent deus ex machina,
one common Joe biden his time
for no particular
rhyme nor reason
revisiting mine days of yore, 
when protectiveness courtesy 
older...

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We have grown accustomed
to Business As Usual
Yang dominant ways
to teach kids
to live egocentrically apart.

We also have Old School
Yin recessive ways
to listen to children
teach each Sacred Other
how to love ecocentrically
together.

Yang alone
is about WinLose
Either/Or evolution
competing against
other competitors.

While Yang with Yin
is WinWin
Both/And revolution
for cooperative evolution
with GoldenRule Others.

We have...

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As a child in a churchish home
I learned to love a lord
I could not see 
Was he there? 
Absolutely!
Apparently.

Where do I find him?
What if he’s not?
Where do I find her?
What if she’s not?
He? Her? It?

Every Sunday we would sit 
In our sparkling Sunday best
Bonnets. Ties....

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Harvesting Youth


Harvesting youthful energy 
Takes time and vitality 
Diamond and ruby 
Hand and machinery 

Poof goes the jazz hands 
A trimmer in the extremities 
And tapping shoes
A person off beat and balance

Heavy feet drag 
Brittle bones crack
Speech is paused and delayed 
Breathing comes heavily
Blind is...

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HAPPY HARVESTING
She moves to capture; he puts her in check.
She wears alabaster; on her ears and her neck.

She sharpens her knife; he reloads his gun;
They threaten each other; before they are done.

She hikes up her dress; exposing her hips;
He tells her no way; as he’s...

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Every Day a Harvest

Every day a harvest, 
Every man 
Every woman 
Every child.

Looking back at harvesting, 
The trail of daylight for laughter 
Brought from life
The successes bring you joy and happiness.

Stay away from the corners of despair, 
For they can shame you
The disappointments 
For they...

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