Image: Tilling the Rice Fields (here)
Comes a time when a beast
of burden falls from grace
Twilight industry that mellowed
Overtaken by developments
in housing, plantations and golf courses
Ripples until now but unashamedly
with a resolute at a much faster pace
Housing developers, entrepreneurs
and governments gladly break
away with fresh new ideas of modernization
Just a knock on the wrist
But a cultural shock on farmers
bent on tilling their lands
to maintain a dying industry
to feed hungry mouths
That's progress
Like it or not!
Marie's at Poetic Bloomings #369 - Animal Instincts
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Here small farmers who've done it for generations are being choked out by the bigger more industrial farms. Sad.
ReplyDeleteYes Alex, it's the same apparently the world over!
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Beautiful pic
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ReplyDeleteIt is sad and change does have a ripple effect! Unfortunately, hard on the small farmer trying to provide for his family.
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