Thursday, April 2, 2020

2020 April PAD Challenge: Day 2

From Robert Lee Brewer's blog, Poetic Asides, "For today’s prompt, write a space poem."

Acreage

Endless skies spill over the flatland
as far as any eye can see.  Some say
it’s all we really have on the prairies: 
wheat fields, space to build a life on.
Land leans in every direction, topples
forward to my children’s children,
backward to a sepia photo of great grandad
leaning his sweat-dampened brow
toward the Brownie camera to nod, smile,
before returning to the plough.

Endless space defines generational lines
of a prairie farming family.  How does
a distance of six feet overwhelm me now?

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2020 April PAD Challenge: Day 2

From Robert Lee Brewer's blog, Poetic Asides, "For today’s prompt, write a space poem." Acreage Endless skies spill over the...