Greetings, folks. My poem “When Field Work is Done” has been published on Manuela Timofte’s In A Love World blog. Many thanks, Manuela, for your generous support of my poetry. Much appreciated.
“When Field Work is Done”
© 2021 by Michael L. Utley
When field work is done and soil tells
A tale of fragrant earth in russet tones
When ground-mist hunkers in secluded dells
And eventide descends upon the swells
Of solemn and discordant distant bells
I follow god-beams west, these tired bones
Sun-gilded in the cool remains of day
As fields pass beside the cobblestones
And honey-hives a-swarm with buzzing drones
And cudding cow in pasture lows and moans
The neighbor’s barn, a faded sun-bleached gray
Leans sleepily as I approach the bend
Where cobblestones succumb to moistened clay
And farm cats mouse-hunt stealthily in hay
And foals and piglets gambol as they play…
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