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so much depends upon a… John Deere Tractor

October 8, 2013 By Talya Tate Boerner 13 Comments

so much depends
upon

a john deere
tractor

coated with delta
soil

beside the grain
buggy.

My 16 word poem is styled in the format of William Carlos Williams’ famous work The Red Wheelbarrow.  Not familiar with it? click here—> The Red Wheelbarrow… (I would reprint it but don’t want to tangle with copyright issues…)

The Red Wheelbarrow is a simple poem, one long sentence broken down into couplets. Each phrase builds upon the next, each slows the reader down and raises questions. 

What depends upon the wheelbarrow? the john deere tractor? So much— farming, livelihood, everything? So much. 

I know. I’m being deep this morning. I get this way during harvest:)


talya

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Comments

  1. Patricia A. Laster says

    October 8, 2013 at 6:03 am

    Love it!

    Reply
    • Talya Tate Boerner says

      October 8, 2013 at 7:38 am

      thank you ma’am!

      Reply
  2. Gary Henderson says

    October 8, 2013 at 6:52 am

    Nice pastiche! (I get to actually use a word that showed up in my word of the day podcast!)

    Reply
    • Talya Tate Boerner says

      October 8, 2013 at 7:38 am

      Awesome! And now I get to look that word up:))

      Reply
    • Talya Tate Boerner says

      October 8, 2013 at 7:40 am

      and I looked it up on Wikipedia:))

      Reply
    • Gary Henderson says

      October 9, 2013 at 11:26 am

      And now we’ve come full circle! 🙂

      Reply
  3. Rachel Hough says

    October 8, 2013 at 9:27 am

    Wonderful poem. Although not much of a poet, I too tend to get poetic feeling around the time of harvest! Although, most of our tractors are blue and red! 🙂

    Reply
    • Talya Tate Boerner says

      October 8, 2013 at 12:38 pm

      Thank you Rachel:)) We are John Deere people all the way…

      Reply
  4. Dorothy Johnson says

    October 9, 2013 at 3:51 am

    Nice poem!

    Reply
  5. Bryan Jones says

    October 10, 2013 at 2:28 pm

    You pick the best references! Keep it up!

    Reply
    • Talya Tate Boerner says

      October 11, 2013 at 9:45 am

      Thank you Bryan – I’m glad you think so!

      Reply
  6. Tim Hardin says

    October 11, 2013 at 8:28 am

    Awesome, Talya…and as a creative writer, so much depends on pastiche…I’m sure!=) And yeah, I got to look it up, too!…haha

    Reply
    • Talya Tate Boerner says

      October 11, 2013 at 9:45 am

      So we all learned something new today:))

      Reply

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