Comment from Frank Jauregui

Excellent

Blessings and thank you for sharing this wonderfully well-written poem. Recently a billionaire presidential candidate showed his abundant ignorance by saying that anybody can just throw a seed in the ground and wait for it to grow, implying that the future needs tech-savvy people, but farmers are a dime a dozen. What a moron! Without the knowledge and muscle of farmers as your poem so aptly conveys - we're all gone! Keep telling the truth through your poems!

 Comment Written 27-Apr-2020

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reply by the author on 28-Apr-2020

Thanks so much for the excellent review and for your perspective on the poem. I think we will all appreciate each other a little more from now. I'm glad that the poem was able to convey this sense of appreciation for the hard work, faith and perseverance of the farming community, which is such a big part of the North Carolina culture. estory

Comment from Cindy Decker

Excellent

I really liked your free-verse poem about farmers.
Farms are the backbone of our country; without them
We would not survive.
I especially like how in the end, you include mothers and daughters who do hard work also and sometimes aren't given accolades.
Excellent poem.
Best wishes,
Cindy

 Comment Written 27-Apr-2020

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reply by the author on 27-Apr-2020

Thanks so much for the excellent review and your encouraging comments and your perspective on the poem. In some ways it's about family as much as agriculture. I really wanted to pay homage to all the farming families and their way of life. Stay tuned for the rest of this series. estory

reply by Cindy Decker on 27-Apr-2020

Thank you, thank estory. I will.😊

Comment from Ulla

Excellent

Hi estory, and I loved it. Your wonderful free verse poem does indeed pay homage to the hard working farmers who are the backbone to our existence. I really liked it a lot, and I'm looking forward to the next poem in the sequence. All best. Ulla:))

 Comment Written 26-Apr-2020

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reply by the author on 27-Apr-2020

Thanks so much for the excellent review and your encouraging comments. Glad you enjoyed it and the next three parts should be coming along. I'll probably post one a week going forward. Groundwork will be next. estory

reply by Ulla on 27-Apr-2020

I'm looking forward to it.:)))

Comment from giovannimariatommaso

Exceptional

This is a wonderful free verse poem having to do with the land and the people who toil on the land for the produce that it produces and the love of the land that is passed down through each generation. Beautifully stated imageries. giovanni

 Comment Written 26-Apr-2020

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reply by the author on 27-Apr-2020

Thanks again for the sixer and all your wonderful support for my poem. estory

reply by giovannimariatommaso on 27-Apr-2020

y/w giovanni

Comment from LisaMay

Excellent

I married into a rural family. They tended livestock rather than growing crops, but you have portrayed a similarity of work ethic, tradition, and generational perseverance in your poem with what I came to know.

I connected with these lines in your poem best:

Abundance accumulated in this land
runs deep into the blood, sweat and tears
of generations rooted down here,
the fortunes of families tied
to the fickle gifts of earth and weather.

 Comment Written 26-Apr-2020

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reply by the author on 27-Apr-2020

Thanks so much for the excellent review and your wonderful comments. Coming from someone in agriculture, I am especially pleased at your support. And the details. I really wanted to pay homage to the work ethic, the sense of close affinity to nature and weather, the sense that this way of life is not under one's control. There's a spiritual element that will come out more in the coming parts. Especially part 3. estory

reply by LisaMay on 27-Apr-2020

I look forward to reading your future parts. I think spirituality is a major part of our connection to land.
(I went on a 2-year motorcycling trip a decade ago, camping out mostly, and that bond of living simply, attuned to nature and weather, while knowing it wasn't under my control, made for a deeply spiritual feeling (also knowing I was often in indigenous Aboriginal territory, with their own culture apparent). Hunters & gatherers and farmers have a lot in common (and possibly motorcyclists!)

Comment from rama devi

Excellent

Very fine poetic tribute. The poem's tone is as down to earth as its subject! Good voicing, atmosphere and flow. Excellent smattering of alliteraiton, especially in these, my favorite lines:


the fortunes of families tied
to the fickle gifts of earth and weather.


Indeed they are!

Stay safe, sane and sage...

Warmly,
rd

 Comment Written 26-Apr-2020

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reply by the author on 27-Apr-2020

Thanks so much my friend, for all your continued support for my poetry. Your comments mean so much to me. Those lines have been mentioned by a couple of others, so I guess they worked. I wanted to create this sense of a life not altogether under one's control. estory

reply by rama devi on 27-Apr-2020

Thanks for your gracious response. :-))

Comment from Dolly'sPoems

Excellent

America is a land full of farmers and they produce food to feed the world and I have nothing but admiration for those who work the land, I enjoyed your tribute here too, love Dolly x

 Comment Written 26-Apr-2020

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reply by the author on 27-Apr-2020

Thanks so much for the excellent review and your wonderful comments supporting my poem on farming. Sometimes overlooked but something I have always admired. estory

Comment from Drew Delaney

Excellent

Just one thing that was missed, I thought you might like to add is the sun. The three combined: soil, water and sun. When I plant seeds, if there is no sunlight they grow long, spindly and then die off. Looking once more, I see weather, but sunlight is so very important.
Nice work! Enjoyed!
Drew

 Comment Written 25-Apr-2020

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reply by the author on 27-Apr-2020

Thanks so much for the excellent review and your interesting comments. Weather ties all that in. I wanted to focus really on the sense of a life that is not altogether under one's control. There is a spiritual side to agriculture I want to get at. estory

Comment from Gypsy Blue Rose

Excellent

free verse
Land: Pt I, Heritage
by estory

Hello, my friend,

Farmers are so important to society and especially now, they have to harvest their land so we can eat and they are taking a chance of getting infected. Your poem is a great tribute to them. Well done!

 Comment Written 25-Apr-2020

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reply by the author on 27-Apr-2020

Thanks so much for the excellent review and for your interesting comments supporting the poem. We're all going to appreciate each other a little more now. estory

Comment from Marjon van Bruggen

Excellent

The land; what a fertile soil it is for a skillet poet like you to write about. You did this to homage the farmers, and oh! how you succeeded. It is a beautiful poem, full of poetic descriptions that paint vivid images in my mind.
"with ears of wheat and heads of cotton
in crowds beyond what the mind can count"

Great poem.

 Comment Written 25-Apr-2020

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reply by the author on 27-Apr-2020

Thanks so much for the excellent review and for your wonderful encouraging remarks. I liked that line too; one of my favorites in this part. Glad the poem made people appreciate the farmers a little more. Part 2 will post probably over next weekend. estory

reply by Marjon van Bruggen on 27-Apr-2020

welcome!