In the backroads of the barn the mice feed on the grain
Sparrows fly in and out cutting the sunlight with their wings
Pigeons coo and flutter high up on the rafters of the hay mow
Dust and chaff float like pixie dust as the breeze blows through
Outside the granary the four-wheeled scales waits
For the next burlap sack to be filled with wheat or oats
The round-bottom steel bushel shines bottom-up in the grain
And the chicken crate stands empty by the door
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Photo: Dwight L. Roth
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old barns are some of the coolest places to explore! 🙂
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Yes, they are so much fun and loaded with history!
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amen!
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Beautifully written Dwight, I remember my visits to Aunty Phil’s farm so clearly… even after all these years
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Thank you Ivor. I love the farm and all that goes with it.
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Awe! Absolutely lovely Dwight! What wonderful memories!
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Thank you Carol Anne. This is my Uncle’s barn. I worked for him for five summers when I was a teenager many years ago.
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You know you have the best poetry, and I love how all your poems relate to memories and things that happened in your life. It’s fabulous, keep up the good work XOXOXO
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Thank you so much! I feel if the poetry does not connect with me it for sure won’t connect with you! I am not a fan of writing just for the sake of writing or from!
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Old barns tell stories of a haunting, yet beautiful, past. You can learn a lot by the scarred wood, old machinery, and left behind tools.
This is beautiful
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Thank you so much for your kind comment!
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You’re very welcome
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I can tell you’ve been there! It rings true – and conjures up old memories of summer visits to my Aunt Laura & Uncle Johnny’s farm. Sweet!
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Yes, I spent five summers on this farm and helped fill those granaries! Great memories. Thanks Jan.
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sparrows cutting sunlight with their wings, a wonderful description of how a small bird can have much power. I felt transported to Green Gables in summer here!
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Thank you Gina! I love your description as well!
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you are welcome Dwight, your nature inspired poems are always a joy to me
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I am so glad you enjoyed it!
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Wow, you certainly know your way around the backroads of a barn; I felt like a tourist basking in your expertise–great poem, incredible sense of place.
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Thank you Glenn. I spent five summers working there. It was a very formative part of my growing up years. Loved the Tractors and the Barn!
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Old barns do seem associated in my memory with mice, pigeons and sparrows.
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A home for diversity!
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This realllly pulled at the heart strings for me. My grandpa had ponies when I was coming up and while he and the ponies are long gone, the barn is still there. When I go and visit my grandma I always like to poke around in the barn and remember helping my grandpa feed and care for those ponies that he loved so much 🙂 A wonderful poem. Really loved it! Thanks so much.
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Thank you so much! I always enjoyed the farm and the barn.
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This was so wonderful to read and envision! 💝💝
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Seems like it was only yesterday! Thank you Gina!
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this is great! really rich, well crafted wordsmithing. that i like old barns helps, too.
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Thank you so much! I tend to have a nostalgic leaning toward old barns myself! Appreciate your kind comment!
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Loving the snaphot of the old barn. I miss this now as I live in the city.
And congrats on the publication.
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Thank you Grace. This was my first book of stories of my five summers working on my Uncle’s Farm. I did it a few years ago and then loaded it onto Kindle e-books.
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I love the easy, comfortable pace of this poem, Dwight, and the atmosphere in a barn where animals and humans exist together, although humans are only hinted at by the scales and the steel bushel. I like the phrase ‘In the backroads of the barn’ – the building instantly becomes a community – and the dust and chaff that floats ‘like pixie dust as the breeze blows through’. It reminded me of a scene from Steinbeck’s ‘of Mice and Men’. Congratulations on publishing the e-book!
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Thank you so much for your kind comments. This barn holds a lot of nostalgia for me. The book is a series of stories about my five summers working there as a teenager.
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A wonderful write Dwight, your poem really captures the atmosphere and has us looking around the old barn with you 🙂
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Thank you Xenia. It is a wonderful place to visit.
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I love those sparrows’ wings 🙂
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Thank you Jane. I thought it made an interesting image!
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It does, and very vivid 🙂
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I enjoyed the attention to detail that allowed me to see the old barn. Nicely written.
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Thank you so much!
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Lovely poem–it really transported me to that old barn. I’m not really familiar with barns, but I can tell this one is full of memories for you.
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Thank you Merril. Yes it really holds some nostalgia for me.
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I love the activity going on in the first part, coupled with the hope of beginning again in the second.
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Thank you Mary. It seems like only yesterday to me!
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There seems to be a lot of new life in the old barn even after the chickens have left.
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Yes, one way or the other!
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This brings back such good memories for me, this could easily be me in my old shed, I got wonderfully lost in this for some time.
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Thank you so much for your kind comments! I am glad it took you back as it did me!
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Very welcome Dwight
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Thank you for your comments.
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