I wrote a poem a few years back and was very proud of it.
I put it in my Christmas cards to family and friends.
And I submitted a copy to Countryside Magazine.
I never heard back from them.
A few years later, I saw it had been published and was delighted.
A few years after that, I found it randomly posted on the web and
it would also come up whenever I typed my name into the search engine.
It is funny where and when it will pop up.
Last year sometime, I was emailing back and forth, as part of my job,
a feedlot owner in Nebraska.
One email I received back from him said " Are you the Michaele Oleson who
wrote the poem about the hens?"
I got a chuckle out of that.
Today, I was reading all of the really neat Farm Friendly Friday posts that
I mentioned yesterday in my blog post. There were darn near 50 of them.
I opened this one: Field Of My Dreams and there my poem was again!
It just made me feel so good that it was being shared with like minded bloggers
and animal lovers (especially chicken lovers).
I know the post had nothing to do with me - but I still felt honored.
Made my day actually.
I am not bound for any public place, but for ground of my own where I have planted vines and orchard trees, and in the heat of the day climbed up into the healing shadow of the woods. Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup. ~Wendell Berry
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That just brings tears to my eyes, it just goes to show you that sometimes the things we do that we might think is no big deal and then it blesses people like your poem has blessed me. I gave it to my daughter and daughter-in-law when they had babies because I thought it was such a nice reminder about life. :)
Talk about coincidence---this is uncanny to me. I read Kim’s post and your poem and just knew it was a classic farm poem that had been around for many years and I hadn’t heard it before. I then get an e-mail from Kim telling me that the lady who wrote this poem is in the linky party. I think that is just amazing and it gave me chills. I am honored to have you as a blog buddy and think your poem is so great. I am in awe of how something like this can take on a life of it’s own and travel around the world and find it’s way home again. So glad Kim posted it. I want to put it in my new Heartbeak Hotel :)
Thats really cool!
ps. I love your poem. Its good advice :)
Thank you all. It really brings me joy!
I LOVE that poem. I was going to ask you if I could use it in my blog sometime. We were hoping to get chickens this spring and I thought it would be fun to use then. It really is great piece! :) Congratulations on being a published poet! :)
Thanks so much! And I would love to see it on your blog! Good luck with the chickens. I can hardly wait to get chicks this year!
I love your poem! I have had it on my refrigerator since I got it for Christmas :) It has moved with me one or two times to different fridges too. I think I need to start spreading it around too!
hi i am already a follower but had to pop by to see who wrote the chicken poem since verde picked you today. that is truly a wonderful story how it made the full circle! you should write more, you are quite good at it!
A small world... How wonderful!!! I loved it when I saw it on Kim's site (she always posts such great things) and then reading that you two found each other thru Verde Farm's link is just wonderful!!!
Love this blogging community!! Am looking forward to following you!
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