<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=486211" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Back To The Usual Walk In The Rice Fields</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">i am back to this place<br>and i am feeling strange<br>there are changes<br>and some i can tell have been missing</div><div style="margin:10px 0">a few meters from where i stand<br>under this mahogany tree<br>where the wind is cold and fresh<br>flavored by the newly cut rice stalks<br>over this spread of golden fields</div><div style="margin:10px 0">the well is still there<br>but the brown woman with earth skin is gone</div><div style="margin:10px 0">an island of coconut trees </div><div style="margin:10px 0">(and some mango trees<br>and banana shrubs) </div><div style="margin:10px 0">has turned bald <br>and the grasses claim another territory to its grassland</div><div style="margin:10px 0">the sparrows must have migrated to the nearby forest</div><div style="margin:10px 0">the cable lines run an empty length of a sigh<br>from one pole to another<br>endlessly clinging is this anonymous electricity</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>the twenty or so white herons are here again<br>pecking on some little frogs in small ponds</div><div style="margin:10px 0">i walk under the sun<br>revisiting reevaluating rekindling perhaps<br>the reasons why i must go on living<br>a life unlived for quite a time</div><div style="margin:10px 0">why are the fields empty? why are the blackbirds circling the tree? <br>why do people pass by this path unable to know the significance<br>of this human journey? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">the sun is up like an absurdity triumphant<br>a dog comes near me</div><div style="margin:10px 0">it is waggling its tail and i am calling him another name.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Ric+S.+Bastasa">Ric S. Bastasa</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=486211" data-title="Back To The Usual Walk In The Rice Fields de Ric S. Bastasa" data-description="i am back to this place and i am feeling strange there are changes and some i can tell have been missing a few meters from where i stand under this mahogany tree where the wind is cold and fresh flavored by the newly cut rice stalks over this spr..."></div> </div> </div>

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