Poems of Lighthouse Bob

Rustic Red #534



Rustic Red

Beside the farm house
dressed Victorian,
a peasant's glove
worn, torn, and battered
by many years
worked hard
in scorching sun
and thrashing rain,
painted and repainted again
rustic red,
milked the cow and delivered foals in spring
and nurtured them through maturity
‘til death,
hung a horse's tack or two
on lofty loft posts
laden with hay,
and sheltered many a weary cowboy
passing chill of night,
extends its welcome hand today
to every generation
slightly skewed from upright,
stay a pillar of strength.




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