Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, BEET FARMER, by MARK MIRICH


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BEET FARMER, by                    
First Line: It is not weariness that lines this face
Last Line: And tear a quiet courage all apart.
Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers


It is not weariness that lines this face,
Nor bitterness that surges from within,
But fear of drouth, deep dust upon this place,
Of hailstones come to batter green crops in.
No bruising, crowding weight of years alone
Has brought an early gray to this lean head;
Nor was it age that moulded skin to bone,
But rather, reckonings that foster dread.
Such stiff dry winds as these have blown before
And many times such thunderclouds were built
Against the northern sky. It is the lore
Of past, of how some precious years were spilt,
By which reality may twist the heart
And tear a quiet courage all apart.





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