Magpie Tales
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| Chilmark Hay, 1951 by Thomas Hart Benton |
Keep telling yourself
the load is light
With each new day
another plight
My back is sagging
my hooves are sore
This yoke is rubbing
against the chore
Day in, day out
it's always the same
rusty wagon
almost lame
Perhaps my keeper
could see his way clear
Throw in the towel
and get a John Deere
Every Sunday morning a new prompt of original artwork is posted on Magpie Tales for me to write about...a poem, a vignette...sometimes true, sometimes autobiographical..usually a figment of my imagination:) Thanks Tess...always a challenge.
Laurel. Ride a tractor, hayseed.
the hard life of a working horse....well put. x
ReplyDeleteFantastic!
ReplyDeleteHehe... I don't blame him one bit! A great and funny read.
ReplyDeleteYeah a John Deere!
ReplyDeletefun... oh I myself is enjoying riding that John Deere to cut grass...
ReplyDeleteJJRod'z
good one- that horse needs a day off!
ReplyDeleteThe last line is a good one ~ Ha..ha..
ReplyDeleteLove Benton's work, and I love your poem.
ReplyDeleteI am awful at poems. I wish I could rhyme darn it.
ReplyDeletefarming is def hard work...the toil tiring but also rewarding in seeing the harvest ...this also though makes a fine metaphor for much of life though...andmaybe sometimes our need to be willing to let go of how we have always done it and trade up
ReplyDeleteMaybe you are seeing nto the future, Laurel !
ReplyDeleteHa! I love it!
ReplyDeleteI had a craving too for tractor too! (But I just wrote my ode to my almost John Deere, for Saturday Centus! ....this was beautiful!
ReplyDeleteHaha!! I love it!
ReplyDeleteheehee
ReplyDeleteStraight from the horse's mouth.
;)
Poor old horse - he deserves a rest. Funny, but sympathetic too - well done.
ReplyDeleteI hope the horse has put a bit of hay into her retirement pot. Thank you for sharing this wonderfully rhymed work, Laurel. =D
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