General Poetry posted March 7, 2021

RodG

I taught English for 40 years on the high school and college level. Since retiring, I have written a poetry collection titled "Reflections of a Dog Walker," and five novels, all unpublished. I mostly post poems and short stories.
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Plowing the Field

by RodG

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At last Spring's come and brought a begged-for sight:
All snow has disappeared from untilled fields.
Desiring pleasure found in plowshare's bite,
I yearn to see what toil and God's plan yields.

My white-faced team is pleased to pull and strain
as blade cuts deeply into dew-wet grass.
We plod and carve incisions in terrain
thick-sodded with a wind-sown weed that's crass.

Tomorrow I shall freckle furrows made
with hand-dropped seeds I saved from last year's crop.
Success depends on placement, how they're laid.
In strings of mounds they'll slumber when I stop.

And then begins my stomach-burning wait.
Will seedlings sprout up soon? What is their fate?

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