Friday, April 8, 2022

It's National Poetry Month!

April is National Poetry Month. Let's celebrate! 😎🎉 It's very cool to be able to write poetry. Somehow I equate poetry with the musical genre jazz. It can be so colorful. Even though I write fiction, I appreciate a good piece of poetry. 

I used to listen to my dad tell stories of yesteryear when he worked at a dairy. He even had the displeasure to be kicked by a cow. Here is a little poem inspired by his stories. Enjoy!


The Joy of Milking

  

The morning breathes of bloodied spider lilies

and she saunters about looking for me,

scarlet matching her

hide of  ivory and auburn patchwork.

 

She lets me reach

for full udders to sterilize

as she eats

complacent

with a payment

of silo for the load that will be homogenized.

 

Pressing my head into her dimpled hip,

I squeeze,

release,

and pause

for the sound of milk

pelting dented tin.

The spider lilies are shivering

under dew-filled shawls.

 

 

 Note:

 

Silo is a mixture of young corn plants that have been crushed and allowed to start the decaying process.  All cows adore the smell and the taste of this feed.


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