Pond reflects Spring green
Mixed with barn red and sky blue
Fresh grass makes warm milk
Photo: Dwight L. Roth
Open link night at d’Verse. A Spring Haiku reflection for me!
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Cows
Heat Wave
Temperatures rising
Europe is having a heat wave
Looking for relief
Cows and people love water
Cooling off under shade trees
Swim as ships pass by
Skinny-dipping man chillin’
Right next to our ship!
Photos: Dwight L. Roth
Our prompt from Lillian today at d’Verse was temperature! It is getting hot, hot, hot, this summer! When we were on our trip up the Rhine, temperatures were in the mid 90s F. It was still a very enjoyable trip. We stayed in the shade as much as possible. All along the river people were camping and swimming finding relief from the heat.
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Snowed In
Red barn // winter snow
Cold Pennsylvania weather
Cows remain inside
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Painting: Dwight L. Roth
Today is our open link day at d’Verse poetry. I decided to celebrate my Pennsylvania farming roots with this Haiku tribute to winter snow.
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Alfalfa Hay
What is that wonderful smell
Drifting from field to window
Driving through the Pennsylvania countryside?
It is the smell of new mown hay…
Alfalfa drying in the summer sunshine.
Aroma like mint tea leaves crushed between fingers
Overpowering the rich smells coming from
The cow manure flying from the spreader
Still pulled by Amish horses a century later.
Alfalfa hay raked and baled filling hay mows…
Favorite of cows and heifers on cold winter days.
Green turned to white and hauled away
In a bulk tank truck for our breakfast table
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Photo: from the family album
At d’Verse poetry group today Bjorn asked that we think about scents in our poetry today. Having worked on my uncle’s farm for five summers as a teenager, I have a great appreciation for the scent of new mown hay. Alfalfa was the hay of choice in Pennsylvania. This smell always takes me back to the farming days of the early 1960s. The photo above comes from that era.
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Fall in Lancaster County
When we were in Pennsylvania a few weeks ago for a funeral, I snapped photos from the car as we drove down the back country roads of Lancaster County. The farmers were cutting corn and filling silos for the winter. It was a beautiful site to ride through the rural country side and enjoy the views as we traveled. Poetry in motion….No words needed!
Photos: Dwight L. Roth
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