Christmas Farm Poems

Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Year’s Eve,
special days filled with festive charm.
When family and friends all gather together,
for a winter’s holiday on the farm.

Old and young folks...

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The farmer cocked his rifle and glared down upon the turkey
It wasn’t mist that made the farmyard and the turkey murky
His muddy specs and ageing...

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There are piggies of The Woods,
there are piggies of The Sea.
Not all piggies are equal;
this is clear to me.

There are piggies who sing -
and they...

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Every Fall Gives Hopeful Indications 
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Their grinning heads cover the fields for acres
A sea of happy mini suns, welcoming us to Kansas.
We stare, amazed, having no idea this was possible.
There...

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The furrows glistened silvery
With the crows astride their brow
Looking for the wiggling worms
Turned up by six share plough

Seagulls also joined the feast
Calling out loudly as...

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Looking back, one thing comes clean-glass clear
you were always there for me subduing every fear.

I tried to do my duty, be a husband strong and...

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rooster sounding off                      ...

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klem clouds shemmet leff shining
zinz rains druffel doost cattle wuntt emptt
non eblinkk renn Jesus leff praying
asheerrvad asheerrvad lubleylah sendtt

zeeabbah, zeeabbah beauty ysprey wondd
twee zonke saw...

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'Twas the night before Christmas and all were asleep,
Not a creature was stirring, not even a sheep.
The cattle were snoozing, the pigs were at rest
And...

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We live opposite a huge farm,
I find living here such a charm,
The cows and the sheep,
Abundant, as the farmer does his 
His rounds in his...

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"Fattening up time" the wall calendar read
which meant only one thing to old farmer Ted

Christmas was coming and there's money to be made
you see the bigger...

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Winter nights where naïve dreams were made,
my mind and heart still store.
Deep hush I hear and feel it still,
now gone, what was before.
The ground which...

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Do pigs go moo?
Do cows go oink?
Do chickens go cock a doodle do?
Do sheep wear sweaters?
Do Alligators know all the letters?
Of the alphabet noodles in...

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Nostalgic Nights.
The smell of gas in the vintage moped I drove an hour to buy, 
Driving down that small-town street at night,
Lit by the dim...

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