Stone Soup, the magazine by young writers and artists » Poems http://www.stonesoup.com Web site for Stone Soup magazine Mon, 30 Jan 2012 20:04:33 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Spring Morning on a Farm http://www.stonesoup.com/spring-morning-on-a-farm/ http://www.stonesoup.com/spring-morning-on-a-farm/#comments Fri, 22 Apr 2011 18:03:51 +0000 Michael King http://www.stonesoup.com/?p=2616 My black-and-gray rooster crows.
The sound of birds’ chatter
filters through the morning.
I open the icy gate
and walk the familiar trail.

A cool, damp haze
swirls around me.
I carry the rusty bucket
filled with a ton of feed;
It pours like sifting sand
into the concrete trough.

Cowbells reverberate
as they prance over the hill.
Stopping beneath my willow tree,
I watch them eat.

I turn around
to head home,
But first I pick the first
Wild …

]]> My black-and-gray rooster crows.
The sound of birds’ chatter
filters through the morning.
I open the icy gate
and walk the familiar trail.

A cool, damp haze
swirls around me.
I carry the rusty bucket
filled with a ton of feed;
It pours like sifting sand
into the concrete trough.

Cowbells reverberate
as they prance over the hill.
Stopping beneath my willow tree,
I watch them eat.

I turn around
to head home,
But first I pick the first
Wild buttercup.

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