Long Cornstalks Poems

Alone I arrive, walking from Frederick
over the gaps, across gentle hills
out onto a knoll
overlooking this burnished landscape.
Before me I see countless writhing rows
of indiscernible shapes gathered
in terrible rituals mid fire and smoke
darkening the sun.
From distant...

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Rustling leaves comfort those who see
Past the hills, to psalms from the trees
Past the gentle to grace and peace
Past hopes to the praise that believes

Autumn winds breathe soothing
Past the lonely, to the astonishing
Past the still,...

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‘so glad ya made it out alright,’ she says.
‘i’m feelin’ a whole lot better knowin’ that the crops’re bein’ taken care-uh.”
you nod, smile politely
and step out of your car straight into drying mud.
‘i just don’t...

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The wind billows out from the seat of his britches
With determined blue eyes, skinned knuckles and knees
he climbs up the rails nailed from old cedar pieces
to the uppermost yoke of an old pecan tree

He is...

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Folded mountains settle into the Snake River plains.
Where golden fields flow with rows of tall grains.
His rising peaks sprout juniper, cedar, aspen, and pine.
Whose wild beauty will not be confined.

Sunflowers shriek in the thin mountain...

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The village air is pristine, filtered and non polluted.
It is from all the germs, diseases and bacteria disinfected.
The country folks are simple, natural, serene and beautiful.
They are unaffected by ego, vanity but are truly cheerful.
God...

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Is it autumn, when silence has come to a lonely lakeshore?
Throngs of reveling summer tourists are flocking here no more.

Is it autumn, the water's sitting still in the swimming pool?
The rowdy children have gone, unhappily,...

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The glow of a jack o' lanterns light,
Walking among the fallen, dead leaves,
Vampire bats that are taking flight,
What a great night for All Hallows' Eve.

Sweet candy corn, cupcakes and chocolate bars,
Plastic skeletons rattling their bones,
A...

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Wisconsin Belle

A pale Wisconsin winter sun does not warm,
only lends its light as a wraith too thin and wan
Greenery imposes itself on the landscape
A lush land that is bitter in winter - lovely in spring
A...

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Lost in the past, my thoughts collide,
how one so gallant could survive
three wars.  He braved them, death- defied,
and left his place in history

Yet, time would take his breath away,
without fanfare, one winter's day
Death's coldest...

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Bad Years
By: Tom Wright
9-23-04

Twixt hard times, I scarcely remember,
though that's not to say there was no other.
Sleeping nights on a pallet till mid September,
under a willow tree, with Joe, my brother.

The hot July breeze
always brought...

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I wake up before the sun from a cozy bed

I walk outside and feel the crisp autumn chill

So I put a stocking cap on my head

 

I walk through the back yard

heading for the woods

doing...

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Autumn is the perfect time of the year.
Turning of clocks one hour is here.

The foliage is so many different colors.
Red, orange and tan leaves drift down 
on to the ground.

The tree branches are bare, because
underneath...

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A misconception is the tale
That we should dread October's spell
Weird things happen, but do not fear
It only comes but once a year
Cornstalks, lanterns, pumpkin faces
Cloudy nights, and creepy spaces
Mummies hide by light of day
Ghouls in...

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Fall
Crisp clear mornings
Afternoons warmed by the sun
Yellow mums and graceful sunflowers
Leaf piles full of fun

Apple cider and jack-o- lanterns
Little ghosts in shadows lurk
Hay bales and dried cornstalks
Put scarecrows out of work

Camp fires and haunted hayrides
Burnt...

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Pumpkins, cornstalks, apples galore
Crisp leaves falling at the back door
Gentle twilight, breathless with song
Fall’s the season where I belong

Crimson maples and golden oaks
Quiet rhythms from God’s soft brushstrokes
Seasonal bliss comes on so strong
Fall’s the season...

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Soft maples shiver, their thickening sap withdrawn
Birds sit silent on the glistening crust of dawn

Autumn's trumpet sounds on the shifting mountain breeze
Rattling pale cornstalks with the hint of coming freeze

Skies grow quiet save for the...

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watching your dark-green cornstalks,

   wafted by the morning breeze,

      sway and tilt toward one another, 

         buoyant and frolicking, huddling,...

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The golden light of four o' clock comes fast
Country comfort and camera in hand
Orange, yellow, red, brown, pumpkins all around
The hues, the colors, a feast for the eyes

Hot coffee, creamy and smooth, warm to the...

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Blackness falls on Hallows eve night

Ghouls and goblins go out for a fright

Witches and warlocks cast their evil spell

All creatures come out from the dark places they dwell

Carve a jack-o-lantern design pleasant or gory

Bob for...

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On All Hallows Eve, darkness balks
The fields are full of crisp cornstalks.
The boyo's have egged the paper birch
and left their lassies alone at church.
A red moon lights a flight of hawks,
a murder of crows, tree...

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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 farmhouse, 
He saw not a thing ...
But the life of...

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Fields of golden cornstalks swaying in the breeze
Leaves of changing colors rustling in the trees

Rows of yellow tobacco smelling so good to me
A place of so much beauty is where i long to be

Seas of...

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mellow autumn

golden fields of maize
 ripple 'neath a sapphire sky ~
  summer heartbeat slows

dry yellow cornstalks
 rustle in with autumn song ~
  frost adorns morning

fields of sunflowers
 reflect the mellow sunlight ~
 ...

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Why are there 
great white puffy clouds
like galleons of cotton
only a child's eye can see?

Why are there fields bursting
with man-tall cornstalks and
lush carpets of pasture
worth much more than
a thousand kings?

Why does the snow
fall so gently,...

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