A Summer Poem: A Tribute to Corn
Have You Ever Listened to the Corn Grow?
Have you ever listened to the corn grow?
Ever walked between the rows?
Listened to it rustle and speak,
So much beauty it makes you weak.
Have you ever listened to the corn grow?
If not you'll never know,
Canopies of green and gold,
Sweetest stories left untold.
Have you ever listened to the corn grow?
Ask the farmers from long ago.
Magic appears in the summer's rain,
Sun and earth prepares the birth of pain.
Have you ever listened to the corn grow?
Whispers and bows and performs it's show.
Love is made in nature's beds,
Sunflowers, and others in golds and reds.
Have you ever listened to the corn grow?
Another summer of highs and lows.
Anticipate the walks through again,
Memories of all past ones as our hearts mend.
Published by Shana Dines
Shana is an award winning artist. Her specialty is pastel portraits and watercolors. She has illustrated a children's book and has written and illustrated one now in publishing. She is a Christian but believ... View profile
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15 Comments
Post a CommentShana, very nice! I love it! 5*
We ate those "roastin ears" of corn too! Beautiful poetry :)
very nice :)
striking images
Wow. You are very talented indeed. And speaking of scary in the cornfield, don't forget the huge corn spiders and the way the leaves can cut you - eeek
Excellent! You should put together a book of poetry. It's really too good for the Internet.
Good job! Sending you some page love!
Ha it is actually funny, I could have just as easily made this into a horror poem because of some of the scary thoughts of cornfields, and getting lost in them.
As kids we'd run through the corn fields surrounding us, playing hide and seek. On a hot summer day the sweat would sting the corn leaf cuts...great memories though.
Great job, Shana... coming from the city life of southern california, your poem took me back to scenes of cornfields from various pictures and movies I have watched.... Nice! (actually one was Signs with Mel Gibson... and one was a twilight zone where little bill mumby wished people he didn't like into the cornpatch!) great job