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CREATIVE PLOTTER
The Old Allotments
Nourishment, earth fed, where robins, blackbirds, crows reside, grows plentiful and rich
beside the banks and riverside
Where working man has striven long, his brow a sweat of toil
as hands like spades, with aching back worked hard the heavy soil
To grow, to feed his many
crops, returning home triumphant
as empty mouths and stomachs waited for succor and for comfort.
Grass, long and green and succulent, home too for mouse and insect caresses now the empty pots
as blackbird, thrush, with perfect
eye, lunge quick and sharp and faultlessly, each jab around the hedging another search for sustenance
to feed the growing fledgling.
Autumn apples drop to feed
the dormant springtime flowers,
the earth and all its worms and creatures, made damp with summer showers.
Make way for compost, de-generation as winter rests the ground
and sure as night will follow day
the earth will echo with the sound
of working men – and women now who find a moment’s peace
within the lanes and grassy tracks where troubles fail,
then
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cease.
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