Ballad of the Landlord by Langston Hughes Landlord, landlord,My roof has sprung a leak.Don’t you ‘member I told you about itWay last week? Landlord, landlord,These steps is broken down.When you come up yourselfIt’s a wonder you don’t fall down. Ten Bucks you say I owe you?Ten Bucks you say is due?Well, that’s Ten Bucks more’n…
Stay Home by Wendell Berry I will wait here in the fieldsto see how well the rainbrings on the grass.In the labor of the fieldslonger than a man’s lifeI am at home. Don’t come with me.You stay home too. I will be standing in the woodswhere the old treesmove only with the windand then with…
The poem is taken from ‘A Timbered Choir: The Sabbath Poems’ 1979-1997 published by Counterpoint Press in 1998. The Objective by Wendell Berry The Objective Even while I dreamed I prayed that what I saw was only fear and no foretelling, for I saw the last known landscape destroyed for the sake of the objective–the…