Spotty weeds dot fields
Once thriving have turned to dust
Their crops memories
Images of tractors fade
Leaving us worse off
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~~ Dominic R. DiFrancesco ~~
Spotty Weeds Dot Fields (Tanka)
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6 responses to “Spotty Weeds Dot Fields (Tanka)”
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That is such a sad site to see. Fortunately where I live all the farms are up and running, but I have seen some…you can see that once there was living and stories and then poof. It makes you wonder how and why. What happened to all of the stories?
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I know, when I first moved to the town I live in the entire roadway was bordered by flourishing farms with fields of cotton, vegetables and fruit and now they are no longer being tended. I too often wonder what happened to them, I find it very sad. My guess is that giant farming conglomerates put these smaller farmers out of business.
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It is sad. Your poem gives these poor farmers who are long gone a voice. So they are not forgotten.
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Thank you Kimberly, I think it is important to give a voice to those that have fallen silent so that we don’t forget.
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Until it all begins again!
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Hopefully someday it will, but for now the fields are nothing but dust.
Dom DiFrancesco 
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