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Image: Ripening Mature Rice
Source: Wikimedia Commons (here)
Sunshine bright above
Innocence of wild sparrows
Eyeing early rice
Abundance to share
Staple food of human kind
Birds have first option
Scare-crow empowered
Padi stalks in danger zone
Locusts undeterred
Written for Chev's CARPE DIEM #295 - early rice
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yeah i dont see a scarecrow messing with the locust at all....hey i like my rice...smiles.
ReplyDeleteScarecrows aren't very scary though, but away the rice does grow
ReplyDeleteI hope that rice does grow, helped by the scarecrows or not!
ReplyDeleteI remember when the locusts descended upon the prairie in a Laura Ingalls Wilder book, they devoured EVERYTHING in site that was green and growing. was not a good year for the garden for them.
ReplyDeleteI love rice in all its forms and glory, with savory, sour, salty or sweet -- yummy!
We don't have so much rice-growing over here, corn and wheat mostly.
happy day, my friend!!
xoxoxo
Rice, the spice of life
ReplyDelete...i must confess, i am a rice person... i eat much of it than you can ever think of me... aww... & the fact really bloated my tummy so yes --- i always have to work out... gotta love some abs than fats... lol... smiles...
ReplyDeleteLovely... the birds indeed have the first share. A very visual set.
ReplyDeleteLovely poem. Rice is such an important food source for most of the earth. From birds to humans.
ReplyDeleteYes, those beady-eyed sparrows are always on the lookout for rice!
ReplyDeleteCooking Early Rice
Locusts don't turn back for man or beast! "Undeterred" is the right word!
ReplyDeleteOld Man and Rice
Great set. Sounds like quite a bit of competition to sample the harvest:)
ReplyDeletewith birds and locusts
ReplyDeleterice farmer better hurry
to harvest first rice
I like this series of haiku Hank ... they are so like ... you. As I look back at our earlier months I see that all the contributors to Carpe Diem have managed their own style and that makes me happy.
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