Category Archives: Farming

Broken Voices

Posted on February 20, 2013 by Doc Arnett

I found her abandoned on a gravel road about three miles away from here. She was around four or five weeks old, her eyes still blue. Continue reading →

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Dodging the Wind

Posted on February 19, 2013 by Doc Arnett

I rather prefer a temperature of around seventy-eight or so, with a light breeze if I’m working outside and no breeze if I’m doing something important, like sitting in a lawn chair sipping a glass of sweet tea. Continue reading →

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Evening Feeding

Posted on February 18, 2013 by Doc Arnett

Walking down to the hay barn
in the late light of ending day,

I see soft streaks of color,
strokes of lavender and pink
left above the sinking sun,
Continue reading →

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The Lifting

Posted on February 4, 2013 by Doc Arnett

A quarter-moon hangs
high in the midst of a southern sky,
its light distinct above the low slate
of this pre-dawn darkness.
Continue reading →

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Hard Morning

Posted on January 31, 2013 by Doc Arnett

With my layers of cotton clothing
and lined gloves,
it does not seem so cold— Continue reading →

Posted in Christian Devotions, Christian Living, Farming, Metaphysical Reflection, Nature, Poetry, Spiritual Contemplation | Tagged cold, drifts, frost, powder snow, warmth, watering livestock | Comments Off

Feeding in the Fog

Posted on January 29, 2013 by Doc Arnett

It is good to know the sight of home,
good to keep its glowing firmly in heart Continue reading →

Posted in Aging, Christian Devotions, Christian Living, Death & Dying, Farming, Metaphysical Reflection, Nature, Poetry, Spiritual Contemplation | Tagged alfalfa, brome, feeding hay, feeding horses, fog, guidance, guiding light, home, inspiration, light, timothy | Comments Off

Food for the Faithful

Posted on January 15, 2013 by Doc Arnett

Only the faintest light shows
in the pale pink streak
above the trees
along the low line of the creek
to the east.
Continue reading →

Posted in Christian Devotions, Christian Living, Farming, Metaphysical Reflection, Nature, Poetry, Spiritual Contemplation, Uncategorized, Work | Tagged brome, feeding horses, food, hay, heavenly priorities, horses, priorities, providence, provision, timothy, trust | Comments Off

Choices Come Home

Posted on January 7, 2013 by Doc Arnett

The few inches of snow
I chose not to shove or shovel
from the driveway three weeks ago
has turned into a hard-packed ice sheath, Continue reading →

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Winter Changes

Posted on December 10, 2012 by Doc Arnett

we felt the wind coming from the north,
the beginning of a hard change
that would be below freezing by mid-afternoon. Continue reading →

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Morning Hay

Posted on December 7, 2012 by Doc Arnett

If there is a dessert hay,
or opiate for horses,
this is it. Continue reading →

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