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Gathering Time -A Tanka

"The Harvest Moon", a circa 1833 oil painting by Samuel Palmer “It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in the Autumn.” -B. C. Forbes

“The Harvest Moon”, a circa 1833 oil painting by Samuel Palmer
“It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in the Autumn.”
-B. C. Forbes

Gathering Time

September’s night wind
Danced on the prairie meadow
To Autumn’s frost song

Season of the harvest moon
Time of reaper’s finale

-Clarence Holm

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