Farm Poems

Well I say, I was glad to know ya
Before the earth goes super nova
I’m glad I got to Nova Scotia
Driving through Manitoba

Well I can say I had a good time
While the sun, ya she shines
Wineries and the finest wine 
Binding...Read More

Oh, you've met my friend, Boaz
   He works in the pumpkin fields, you say
I don't remember there being any pumpkins there

Well, he's quite a tall fellow, blond hair, blue eyes
   You say his eyes are blue,...Read More

farm
cowpies
sunny day
plops in pasture
fun begins when you throw them at cousins

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Carl Marx
created the communist 
manifesto
he created communism

because looking at the capitalist world
he realized that eventually,
a very few wealthy 
people would control the world

well everybody else 
became slaves to their money
that's pretty much what we have now
the very wealthy

Getting wealthier 
we...Read More

She has a fever.
I leave her dozing fitfully on the veranda.
Halfway to the woods there is a farm gate
where she will often squat
and piss.
The grass is brown, but still thrives,
strangely adapted to uric rain.
Paris the giant poodle is here,
his nose...Read More

Like Thoreau I sought out Walden’s Pond
For me, it was my grandmother’s field of soybeans
Lost in the bowels of a small gray shed I fancied a cabin
I stumbled on it when I was eight, an explorer, in the summer.

It became...Read More

A Milk Maid on McDonald's Farm
Incited a sense of alarm
Her grip on an udder
Made all the men shudder
And that was just part of her charm!
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Birds seen flying together in large flocks tonight
Words of warning sounds emit as coos and cackles
Herds of cows start running toward the barn door light
Blurred together as a murder of black crows and grackles

Snow starts fiercely falling down from the...Read More

My brothers can you hear me, my sisters can you see?
I want to be a part of your world, if only you'll let me be.
I promise not to hurt, I promise not to harm.
I promise to give you all I...Read More

There was a dear who had a ridge that she perched from
It was where she felt welcome 
Below there was a road 
Where cars must go. 

They would be driving in singles and pairs 
Going too fast that gave my...Read More

When I was in grade school
I was, already, 
on my leftbrain dominant path
toward acting the intellectual snob.

This, in large part
my best offense,
my trump card, sadly,
against marginalizing prejudice
of our community's non-farmer economic
and political Elite;

The few kids
whose parents went to college
and/or inherited...Read More

Sinking feeling springs eternal...
courtesy sucker punched by vehicular travails

Truckload of banshees muffled
as more'n yours truly wails
he feels wheely tired
as one after another
significant snafu devilish

troublesome impish of the
poe pervert car -
tell driver unveils
scarier than Stephen
King's macabre tales
one illusory monster with

(by Scott)...Read More

there they are the country roads
the heavy dew shimmering like gold
under the trees the early mist
has not yet risen with its gracefulness

the farmers machines are parked on black soil
only next year will they need to be oiled
the wind ranging in...Read More

Katie Osprey looked up from the ground 
And she knew this was no way to end a night on the town 
“Why did you dump me onto the Garden floor” 
Which made her four-legged love come back from the in-gate...Read More

Loralei’s green eyes flickered in the dark,
Noticed by males, especially Clark.

She captivated him in every way.
He reminisced about her most of the day.

Truth told, she was totally unaware.
Of his bold prowess, and that he did care.

He came courting and met...Read More

Ruby Farms, farm of the sunset,
With a blooming riot of roses,
Is at the shadow of indigo night-
The hour of the deepest color!
The hues are intense as passion,
And darkly fine, as aged wine.
Beautiful, sweet violets are
Blooming near vine clad wall.
And grapevines...Read More

The Stars and Moon had long been friends
    But this was set to change.
As the Moon just up and walked away
    Moving swiftly out of range.
And what was left was dark and void
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I come from Iowa farm stock.
We are healthy. Built on big feet.
We do not complain. We keep going.
We work in blizzards ignoring them.
We walk into mud up to our crotch, to save cows.
Hard work is the answer for everything.
And prayer...Read More

A horse came over to say
Without its usual neigh.
That he'd kick a farmer's pants
If one continued to dance,
To the sound of munching hay....Read More

It was Solar eclipse that weak,
Strange things suddenly unfolded,
All the animals began to speak,
But my wife was dumb founded!

For the first time in my married life,
Nearly twenty years and a nine,
Not a word from my loving wife,
Not a sneer, not...Read More

If my mother says her pain is a ten, it is a hundred.
On a scale of one to ten.
She is a farm girl woman.
Never complains about anything
Taught early
To be strong and stoic
One of seven children
Taught to keep her feelings to...Read More

Standing on a cliff, overlooking the ocean
   Waves roll in, lapping up against the boardwalk
Toward the horizon gulls soar, occasionally 
   Swoop down to scoop up a small fish...

The rhythm of the ocean's pulse
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As time and space stretches its vision,
the experience creates different decisions. 
While inquisitive has still its sphere,
the idea of old age draws near.
Whatever said by poets and sage,
the consequence of time is measured by age.
The waning and waxing of many...Read More

Beef. Potatoes. Pie. 
If not that, nothing.
He would not even eat.

Lasagna? No. 
Spaghetti? Eye roll.
He would rather eat confetti.

Beef. Potatoes. Pie.
That was my Dad’s idea of dinner.
An Iowa farm boy, he wanted these three things at every meal.

Except breakfast.
Breakfast could...Read More

What's new with me...Matthew?

Well for starters Nationwide
road service emergency
one man cutting crew
with battery charger in tow knew
exactly why no juice (think electricity),
his hunch found trunk light kept lit,
an innocent looking (to me or you)
lady's handbag accouterment,

fifty shades of blue
stuck out...Read More