Uplifting Farm Poems

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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Several favorite mem’ries, from my not too recent past,
Are of the summer days I spent on my Uncle Jessie’s farm.
Every single visit was a wonderful...

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I have been chanting five minutes when soft whispers of the forest surround my soul;
A tiny white fluff of a feather floats past my face,...

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I live on the edge of the infinite sky plain

dirt meets the horizon

dirt meets the sky

you can see all the way to the sky

with nothing...

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THE SWAINS

Under cumulus clouds, grew cauliflowers.
He planted them with love because I adorn them when they were harvested to the table of healthy man, my...

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Such a nose had Ol’ Blue.
Best in south Missouri... everybody knew.
Could smell a pheasant across the plain.
Could point a covey in a hurricane.
That’s the way...

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God Gave Me A NEW Life!

God reached down to my life 
and changed it!
His love touched my soul
 and I can claim it!

God brought to...

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SHE RAN AWAY WITH THE CIRCUS

                   ...

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cluck,oink,meow,quack,maa
cock-a-doodle-do,moo,baa
tis my wild kingdom



written 2009...

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Milroy Farm
11-30-08
By
William L. Moore
For
William McCracken Milroy

Sitting in my Deer stand
Upon my Uncles land
Feel the simple breeze
As it whispers through the trees

Waiting for the Deer
Not a...

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(in reference to Woodstock)

July of Sixty Nine, at Yasker's
Farm
Where word of Vietnam, caused
for alarm
Bringing People, from all over, to
put on the charm
Looking to openheartedly, give...

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The candle glowed and cast shadows upon the bare wall
As the two met after dinner and their associated chores
The farm work made them tired, but...

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