Wednesday, November 4, 2020

Someone Said There's an Election Going Around - poem

 

Lawrence Hall

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https://hellopoetry.com/lawrence-hall/

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Someone Said There’s an Election Going Around

 

In much work there shall be abundance: but where there are many words, there is oftentimes want.

 

-Proverbs 14:23

 

This autumn morning I have a fence to mend

Fence. As in fence. Concrete footings, wooden planks

The rotten bits to be cut out and replaced

No metaphors will be harmed in this repair

 

Later I will harvest the last of the sunflowers

Drooping now in the fullness of life’s end

No longer following the sun, only the earth

Soon to be seeds for the winter squirrels and birds

 

Someone said there’s an election going around

Fine, fine, but the grapevines need pruning down

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