Prairie Possibility

[Artguy]

Prairie Possibility

From an ancient prairie
Slavs, Tsars and Cossacks
To a land uncut
Home to the beaver
Moose
Loon
And Raven,(It laughs at their ways)
Redmen roamed and hunted
Buffalo
Deer
And rabbit
It's called Can/ada
They came
Cut the land
Ploughed and sewed
Built wood towers
Giants on the land
Stoic
Solid
Proud
They hold their golden grain
Golden wheat
Bent in the wind
Beneath great wild sky
Eternity
Horizon
Low and distant
Here they toiled
Calloused hands
Broken backs
Danced their Slavic dance
Fiddle and bass
Prayed to their God
For deliverance
To a heaven
Beyond the great wild sky
Beyond the raven
There they died
Surrendered to the land
Newly sewn
With seed of the future
From Slavic past

[stilltrucking]

Beautiful poem it made me homesick

[joel]

Baba and a blackbird
each away from home
each enjoy the meaning
missaid as "epitome".

[dadio]

I like the way this is set out and told and it does move one so.

[saw]

maybe this is why they call them The Great Plains......nice history lesson...