All Poems Index

001 The Olde Barn
002 Tall, Tall Cotton
003 Riding on the Wings
004 Strange Brew
005 Capturing
006 Bread and Soil
007 First Day of the Week
008 Garden Walk
009 See The Children
010 Summer Rain
011 The Rain Came… Late
012 Thunder Rumbles
013 After The Storm
014 A Summer Passing
015 Drought
016 Scattered Thunderstorms
017 Waiting for Rain
018 Early Morning Darkness
019 Days of Rain
020 From See to Shining See
021 Dancing with the Wind
022 Planting Time
023 Summer Frost
024 The Sun Comes Up
025 How Cold Is It?
026 Hand in Hand
027 Lady
028 Music for the Soul
029 August Fog
030 Hats Off…
031 Living Love
032 Memorial Day
033 Through Her Eyes
034 I have walked among you
035 In Remembrance
036 Permission
037 A Lady Passing
038 Fallen Runner
039 Constance June Perry Warfel
040 Losing…
041 Fabric
042 Loving You
043 Kernel Richard Burwash
044 The Accountant and the Romantic
045 Sweet Spots
046 Passport
047 A Songbook Closed
048 Alas and Alack
049 Shovel Ready
050 Two Becoming One
051 Time Was
052 The Quiet After
053 Shovel Ready*
054 Remembering…
055 Jan’s Garden
056 Mom/Els
057 Memories
058 moms
059 Fruits and Veggies
060 Evolution
061 The Prairie Floods
062 Fourth on Friday
063 A Long Long Time Ago
064 Good and Tired
065 The Waiting Father
066 Evie
067 Minus What?
068 Salts of the Earth
069 Treasures
070 Alimentary, My Dear Watson!
071 Brother
072 See Saw Seen
073 July in Illinois
074 Summer’s Last Fling
075 In the Trenches
076 Color it Life
077 S and S
078 The Farmer in the Dell
079 Monday Morning Fog
080 Monday Platefulls
081 Seas of Emotions
082 In The Room With Lynne
083 The Great Spring Itch
084 The Pounding
085 Loving Kindness
086 HOH
087 Colored Glasses
088 Lake Beds
089 Horizontal Rain
090 Good and Tired!
091 Little Bitty Mountains
092 Juxta…posed
093 Who Gives This Woman
094 Men of Distinction
095 People of the Dark
096 The Remnant
097 Spring Power
098 Going to the Well
099 Bowl Weather
100 Roasting Ears
101 Surrounded by One
102 All Systems Go!
103 Black Corn!
104 Black Gold
105 Memorial Day ’04
106 Chest High!
107 The Cold
108 Fall on the Farm
109 Fall Reflection
110 What We Lost, and What We Won
111 Tween Rows
112 Family, Parkland Style
113 God’s Colors…
114 Golden Seasoning
115 Graduating!
116 Green Color
117 If I Were a Democrat
118 January Thaw
119 Just in Time
120 Winter Wonders
121 Last Blasts
122 Machines at Rest
123 Mixing Bowl Weather
124 Mud
125 Winter’s Hold
126 Oops!
127 Panoply
128 music
129 Prairie Symphony
130 David H. Baker
131 Radar Soup
132 Rain again… and again…and AGAIN!
133 Rain Softened World
134 Global Warming
135 Ode to a Field Mouse
136 Run Like the Wind
137 Showers and Thunderstorms Likely
138 Sifting Soil
139 Silent Night, Holy Night
140 History 101
141 Smile
142 Farmer Progress
143 Systems
144 Thanks Giving
145 That Would Be a Yes!
146 The Friendly Tidal Waves
147 The Incredible Workshop
148 The World of Blather
149 WhiteOut
150 Buds and Blossoms
151 Unglorius Mud
152 Walking with a Friend
153 Wearin’ of the Green
154 Streets of Gold
155 Christmas Rounds
156 Father
157 Time Was*
158 East 80
159 Gatherings
160 Wounded Hearts
161 Stacks Attack
162 Pasture Lessons
163 Beyond the See
164 Winter Snows
165 Enchanting Land
166 Dashes and Marathons
167 First Light
168 First Whiffs
169 Happy Tears
170 Country Folks
171 Concert Time
172 Little Angels
173 Yes!  Easter!
174 What Hath the News- Gazette Wrought
175 B is for Blankie
176 Pain Full Memories
177 Working the Broom
178 Tree Hugger
179 Rolling, A Song of the Prairie
180 The Quiet Man
181 Surrender
182 On the Move
183 The Blue Shirt Folk
184 Order in the Court
185 1882
186 Touch and Permission
187 Morning Moon
188 Grandpa’s Hands
189 Wet Air Morning
190 Table
191 Little One
192 Sunshine
193 Just a Sip
194 Journey
195 Relief!
196 Letting Go
197 Done
198 If You’re Gonna Be a Bear
199 Life: A Brownie with Ice Cream Laced with Chocolate
200 After
201 Morning After
202 October 2012
203 Hangin’ in There
204 Chicago, Yesterday and Today
205 Streetlights on the Snow
206 Sure Hands
207 Palmer House Morning
208 Spike and Dunk!
209 Tucked In
210 Grandad’s Island
211 White Grass
212 Catch!
213 March Sunrise
214 Chapter 22
215 Heart of America
216 Mama Sabine Manyonga
217 The Planter Sits
218 Abba
219 Pleasantville
220 Diamonds and Pearls
221 Widows and Moms
222 Dads and Sons
223 Carried Along
224 Falling Rain
225 Leaning In
226 Climbing to the top
227 Fragile and Strong
228 Fog
229 Corn Talk
230 Threads to Tapestries
231 Butterfly World
232 The Last 500 Feet
233 I’ll Figure it Out!
234 Flowers in the Rubble
235 Water Water Everywhere!
236 Soil Chef
237 The Pouring Season
238 Arms Around Agriculture
239 Christmas Characters
240 Howling Winter
241 The Bitter Taste of Winter
242 April Winds
243 Dancing with the Soil, Seasons, and Nature
244 Snow Birds
245 Holy Week
246 Nesting Time!
247 The Mountains Between Us
248 Rain, Rain, and More Rain
249 The Screened Porch
250 Summer Rain
251 Sustainable Farming
252 The Wonder of It All
253 Peace Story
254 Numbers and Emotion
255 Tides and Rivers
256 Tender Men
257 On Hold
258 Windows on the World
259 Corn, Soybeans and Chicago
260 The Annual Meeting
261 The Alleluia Chorus
262 Empty Chairs
263 The Rest of the Story
264 Shifting Gears
265 Hush
266 Grand Grace
267 Enormity
268 Corn King and Queen
269 Fixed Right
270 Sunday on Monday
271 Rainy Daze
272 At Ease
273 Friends
274 The  American Farmer…Today
275 Mom
276 Chicago Steam
277 The Planter
278 Swimming Upstream
279 Homeward Bound!
280 9 in the Evening
281 Soil and Seeds
282 Rain Reigns
283 Windows on the World (2015)
284 First
285 Spittin’ Snow
286 Honestly, Abe
287 Retired, Re-tiring
288 Frosting on the Cake
289 Switch!
290 Fog and Fertilizer
291 Ebony Earth, Ribbons and Bows
292 Robin in the Rain
293 Monsanto Doors
294 The Beautiful Blanket
295 Me ‘n Grandpa
296 Gentlemen Farmers
297 The Sky in Mourning
298 Bindings
299 Grinding Cold
300 Boards from Parkville
301 Deep Draughts*, and The American Farmer
302 Used to…
303 Planting The Flag
304 Mothers of Distinction
305 Music of The Prairie
306 Crunch Grass
307 Gathering of The Clan
308 Bitter Cold
309 Winter’s Hold, Cold