Pastures & Cropping

• Helen Anderson, Grade 11
• Poetry
• 2015

The farmers of Kansas,
Be required to raise less corn,
And more torture.

We plough the victorious fields,
And distribute the high-quality seed on the ground,
but it is nurtured and dampened,
By god's almighty enormous hand.

He dispatches the snowfall in the declined winter,
the warmth to surge the small speck,
the harsh wind and the brightness of the sunshine,
And the pleasant energizing sprinkle of rain.

It was hay that allowed the earth’s residents to flourish,
To shine amongst the forests of Northern Australia.
Hay changed the greatness of a thriller neighbourhood,
And later to praise and the recent twinkling of the sun.