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
Grace Grits and Gardening
Farm. Food. Garden. Life.
Love it!
thank you ma’am!
Nice pastiche! (I get to actually use a word that showed up in my word of the day podcast!)
Awesome! And now I get to look that word up:))
and I looked it up on Wikipedia:))
And now we’ve come full circle! 🙂
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! 🙂
Thank you Rachel:)) We are John Deere people all the way…
Nice poem!
You pick the best references! Keep it up!
Thank you Bryan – I’m glad you think so!
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
So we all learned something new today:))