Friendship Farm Poems

It was a cool, overcast and windy Sunday afternoon in March 2014. We were about 50 miles from Paris, at my Grandmère’s (grandmother’s) farm. She...

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Best of friends 
Are me and ewe,
Ain't no ends... 
For us two...

Spent all the day 
One day a year,
Running away
From our shear

Not with our kin
And...

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some people think us rowdy

we greet them with a howdy

and once in our barn

they get a tall yarn

and some apple pan dowdy.
...

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Trouble, trouble in the mown rye!
Sneaky snakes slither round and by,
silently squeezing through rubble
in the mown rye, trouble, trouble!

Sneaky snakes eat rats in the field,
mice...

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Rocky

Rock is not a racehorse, 
he is a tiny Billy goat. 
He thinks he is much larger
than he really is. 
One day, 
he will be...

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Chickens

In the small box 
on the counter, 
there are ten tiny chickens. 
They are so little, 
you can hold them in your hand. 
They make...

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Work is lifting up your friend's hand ~ hounded in a farm where God dwells not...

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The wind whistled a chilly tune,
As the day slipped toward a grey horizon.
Flocks of blackbirds darkened the autumn sky.
The quail's shrill call could be heard...

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"Going to build me a home where I'm never alone" 
said the boy with the wild hair and the Mexican heart 
Yes I will finish...

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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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Between the fields of corn, they walked
Beneath bright sun and clear blue sky
Like many times before, they talked
Of their hardships, hurts, or days gone by

Similar...

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Song of the Humble Scythe

My fellow men at arms, today we fight!
Courageous men of fields, that...

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rooster sounding off                      ...

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Pain of defeat that lingers deep inside,
Those past chances lost cannot be regained,
dreams rerun every moment of that ride,
grieve not friend, you are a hero...

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Turnip Greens

Yesterday times were hard.
In October '29.
The mills "cut out" depression came,
The economy declined.

Stocks fell down and rich men died.
Black Tuesday brought disaster.
They jumped from...

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