<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=397469" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Abandoned Zimbabwean Farmhouse</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">It was a great commercial farm <br>at a time, <br>says the uncultivated fields<br>where the last crop of maize stands<br>not harvested at the right time, </div><div style="margin:10px 0">says the big house<br>build from rock with Rhodesian teak floors<br>and great wooden doors<br>of which only splinters remain<br>where they had been axed<br>for fire wood</div><div style="margin:10px 0">says the huge barn, <br>with a now rusting roof, <br>now stripped from anything valuable</div><div style="margin:10px 0">says the stable now bare<br>from any living animals<br>and its obvious that the farmer<br>and his family left in haste<br>and that everything is going to waste</div><div style="margin:10px 0">says the broken china cups, the broken dinner plates<br>the child’s toys which are scattered, smashed<br>and I wonder if the family did survive<br>when the farm was invaded<br>by a thieving unruly youth <br>and so-called war veterans.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>[Reference: Abandoned Farmhouse by Ted Kooser.]</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Gert+Strydom">Gert Strydom</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=397469" data-title="Abandoned Zimbabwean Farmhouse de Gert Strydom" data-description="It was a great commercial farm at a time, says the uncultivated fields where the last crop of maize stands not harvested at the right time, says the big house build from rock with Rhodesian teak floors and great wooden doors of which only spli..."></div> </div> </div>

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