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A Poem about the Dust Bowl

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2008-03-9 - A Poem about the Dust Bowl

Before the dust came
It was a plentiful paradise
To farmers, a little taste of heaven
Advertisements of giant crops brought
More farmers
They plowed and broke the soil
Soon
The once chocolate colored soil turned pale and dry
No rain came
Topsoil blew away

Then the dust came
Killing crops
It came in wicked windy storms
Blocking out the light
Red, gray, and black blizzards of
Parching dust

The men would watch
As it came near
Standing in the meager fields
Watching
Waiting
For the dust to come and take away
The fruits of their devoted labor
Helpless as their crops withered and died

Dust everywhere
Barricaded people in homes
People breathed, Drank
Ate dust
Had to wear cloth over mouths
Wet sheets cover doors
Just to keep out the
Depressing dust

With the dust came Jackrabbits
from the hills
Devouring everything
Farmers rounded them up into pens
They clubbed them to death

April 14, 1945
Worst day of all
Thousands of birds fleeing
From a great windy wall of blistering black dust
People hid in cars from the dust
It was called
Black Sunday

10 years of living hell
Many died of
Dust pneumonia
Choking on dust and spitting it up
Dust meant death

Farmers lost hope
Friends and family parted
Rural communities unraveled
Youth and Determination was ground into the dust itself
But
Those of Last Man’s Club stayed
Vowing to fight the dust
And they did

The rain finally came
Bringing hope on its wet wings
The skies wept over the parched ground

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