Hope Farm Poems

For decades, motor cars
have driven past in haste,
eyes not straying far
from the highway to where,
set back and obscured
by scrub,
an abandoned farm
is slowly succumbing to rot.
I...

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He wears thick gloves when he strings the barbed wire,
fashioning a thorny fence from prickly metal spines,
reminding me that cattle like to know the boundaries,
the...

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Before you get married, my child
There are a few things you should remember
The most important being
To always tend to your farm

You should look for a...

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At Farmer John's pond, afternoon's sway,
A boy with hair, wiry sandy fray.
Shoeless, in the light of day,
Dreaming of a prize to lay.
His straw hat, a...

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I once told a story about my 
Ex-girlfriend Gormless Sue
Well that was part one
And this is part two

Gormless Sue had a farm
She lived in a...

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The Good Harvest

Years ago I was a farmer,
And my neighbor had a field.
But he let it go to briars,
He was not concerned with yield.

As I...

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Leaking through the worn, gray boards, like a trickle from a dream. Where gentle thoughts raised prayers through the loft, tiers spilled out tears, remembering...

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I grew up in a small rural Iowa town
my parents were spawn of farmers
we had “farms” out in the country
we did not live on them...

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With his baggy overalls 
And a worn, plaid cap,
The old farmer recalls 
With a piglet in his lap 

Seated on the porch swing
Of his aging...

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She kisses away the weariness,
Burdens – inklings of the mystery
Birthed by her dream, hope
Remembered in the evening when
The calf nuzzled – her nourishing, nurturing
Gentle as...

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Miner's Dream

Somewhere in this truck-bed sand there is meaning
There are answers
Humor
Hope
A hand
Up

Somewhere in this earth's marrow I will find a meadow
Surrounded by old trees
And new...

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The country road split the wheat field in half
A murder of crows seemed to prefer the right
Hope they leave some to winnow from the chaff
Crows...

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The New Year

It is a new year... 
It is a new day.
It is the first day...
of many more. 

The problem, 
and the answer... 
It came...

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thick rain, trickling hope
thirsty seeds in parched soil, seek
eager, growing faith

...

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"recently scenes of early life have stolen into my mind, like breezes blown ..."

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