Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, THE FIELD, by GLENN WARD DRESBACH


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THE FIELD, by                    
First Line: I stand again in the field
Last Line: Something he wished to keep ... And kept remembering.
Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers


I stand again in the field
Where first my father broke
The prairie sod, and the sweating team
Passed with the creak of yoke
And straining tug, and steam
Arose from the furrows that rolled,
Tough and straight and black, under the morning's gold.

Many times he has said
He remembers, each spring that comes,
The wild flowers and the steady roll
Of the prairie chicken drums
Upon each sunny knoll,
And how the tall grass sighed
As it fell beneath the share and his relentless stride.

Sometimes I wished I had known
The field when it was wild
And beautiful ... but remembered then
Although my father smiled
When he told of it again,
He had lost a treasured thing --
Something he wished to keep ... and kept remembering.





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