Poem: Prolific Plantings

Prolific Plantings

These carefully sown crops
selectively planted in welcoming settings
to blossom like fireworks bursting
from receptive mother earth
instant blossoms of blood red hue
spattered with flesh and blood confetti
the sacrifice of children by their elders
who once confronted differences
with arrow and sword but now
dismember from a distance beyond
the limits of time a heritage lottery

market driven forces demand more
mass production fifty million plantings
not enough the subtle soldier
mines the fields and plods to bed
to sleep in safety satisfied to know
more seedlings await his husbandry
from busy factories smug shareholders
his boots will march on march on
no limbless soldier will he be
the surviving kids will need no shoes
a wooden leg or two will do

Anonymous

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