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  • September 23, 2008 at 9:08 pm #39785
    Bigbadron
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    Hello everyone.
    I’m neither a farmer or someone who has ever worked with a draft animal.
    Been to a few horse and oxen pulls though
    and I am a country boy at heart.
    I am however, an amateur poet,
    ( Very amateur,haven’t been published yet )
    Who also happens to live in an old cape built in 1720.
    I wrote a poem about my house and if nobody minds,I would like to post it here,if anyone would care to read it.
    Just post a reply, and I’ll put it up.
    Much of the stuff I like to write about has to do with days gone by,or life in the country. So Reading thru this forum,I see a wealth of material.
    If nobody here minds, I would like to use some of this material
    to write a little poetry.
    If you wouldn’t mind,I could post some of them here.

    September 24, 2008 at 12:35 am #47369
    Carl Russell
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    Sure Ron,
    It would be good to read your poetry. Keep us up to date on your progress.
    Carl

    September 24, 2008 at 2:24 am #47370
    Bigbadron
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    Cool thanks.
    I think you’ll like this one. It’s entitled,

    Redemption.

    Summer the growing time
    the building time.
    When the woods and the farmer’s fields
    go about their most important business.
    As men will enjoy the noonday sun
    celebrating recharging
    growing from within.

    Autumn the harvest time
    the scything time.
    Threshing away the chaff
    as the woods shed their skin.
    Like the farmer
    we hold back seeds for planting
    and sell what we can afford to lose.

    Winter the quiet time
    the resting time.
    Keeping ourselves
    as the farmer keeps his oxen
    and the woods lay quiet
    and sleeping.

    Spring the glorious time
    the awakening time.
    Improving our husbandry
    striving to grow more carefully
    than we did last year.

    As we walk the springtime woods and fields
    The Earth shows us her brand new season.
    Seeking her own redemption
    in revealing that which is unchanging
    universal
    and eternal.

    Every year
    asking us to see her
    with new eyes
    to make and keep with her a new covenant
    and a new redemption for ourselves.

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