Eight-line Poems 2

Agriculture

October 04

Agriculture

It’s the farmers that do it
with vision in their eyes
that sees right through it
and the desert belies.

With their harvest they build
civilisation’s balm
it’s the future they milled
through the strength of their arms.


Line count: 8
Rhymed abab
For Express It In Eight, 10.04.25
Prompt: Write an agricultural poem.