Give us Today

Give us Today

See the golden fields of wheat

Yielding to the blowing breeze

Slender leaves and hollow stems

Hold their spikelet inflorescences

Kernel heart grains of nutrients

Await the eager farmer’s harvest

To reap and clean precious produce

For processing on the millstones

Cracked granules sifted carefully

Most is recovered as white flour

The greater proportion given over

For bread making around the world

… ‘Give us today our daily bread’

‘YOU’ have …

Thank you

Amen

Copyright @ Phillozofee 2018

Reviews

[Ardra]

I recently saw a vedio in which the bread is made of cockroaches...a special kind of them...
grown in lab and then they are processed to be added to the flour... and then the explanation was
it was high in protein and its less wastage involved...

but at the thought of them made me want to puke :P
mmmm the ladies tasted it and said it tasted like nuts.. hazelnut and something...

:) just thought you would find it interesting , so shared...

i like this poem its sweet simple.... ends like a prayer..

[00000000000000000000000..]

Very awesome poem:) we all should be blessed for all as well one another I know at times it don't fall that way but your write did.

[Great Aunt Astri]

A lovely, gentle poem celebrating what we naturally have. (Heavens forbid they put cockroaches into the flour!). but more and more people are finding that they are intolerant of flour. I think this is because the wheat has been over-engineered (by old fashion pollonisation) and the protein has become too big to digest. However, your poem ends in a prayer, so perhaps the Greater Powers That Be might correct this. Not sure why the YOU in in capitals

[AYVID N]

So creatively written...I can feel the love and gratitude threaded through your words.

[Beccy]

There is more than enough bread to go around, yet to our species shame, there are untold numbers of children that starve to death with every passing day.

Beccy.

[Ghost]

This is a good way to thank a farmer and a baker for the wonderful bread we are given ... Thank you for sharing

[Meliss@k]

So beautiful and simple.

I liked how the “meat of the poem” had so much depth and meaning in the last stanza.