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Wednesday, June 16, 2010

ERASE, MEADOW,TRACE

For Three Word Wednesday


FALLOW

Slash and burn; erase
No trace of harvest remains
Rice field, now meadow

19 comments:

  1. Interesting the perspective from different parts of the globe--rice. We just finished wheat harvest.

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  2. I love the word "fallow" - those round vowels. Say it aloud with me... fallow... aloud... fallow... aloud.

    Ahhhhh.

    Disappearing traces all across our three word wednesday adventure today!

    Read my 3ww here.

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  3. Very evocative.The word erase seem to suggest some kind of finality here. As if the rice will never grow again.

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  4. Here in Oregon we say that when an apartment complex is named Meadow's Edge that is what they covered up to built it. Sad isn't it?

    I like what happens in your poem much better.

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  5. Thanks to;
    Lilibeth; The rice harvest was actually at the end of last year.
    Thom; Very limited mechanisation, a real 'hands on' job.
    Anthony; What goes round...
    Julie; That's where the words lead us this week.
    Vivek; Planting is taking place about now, and harvest at the end of the year. For 6 months it's too hot and dry, so the fields are left to return to the wild.
    B;

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  6. I love that it sounds almost violent, but such is the life of a crop.

    - Dina

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  7. Thanks Dina; Harvest with a sickle does have an element of violence.

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  8. reminds of my days when i was always in the field...:)

    cute use of the prompt! too good, too real!

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  9. Thanks Amity; It happens all around me, every year.

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  10. Haven't stopped by in a while, Sorry, I gotta say: I don't know how you keep up the productivity & always such quality stuff. I salute you.

    And thanks for your regular visits to Scrambled, Not Fried

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  11. Thanks Ron. It could be something to do with the quality of the prompts, and hey, your work is quality too.

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  12. funny, this could be taken either negative or positive, I like that it's left to interpretation.

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  13. I swiped this from you. Please let me know if that's all right.

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  14. A life cycle, circles of crops. I so enjoyed this!

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  15. Thanks to:
    Dee; The title 'Fallow' is perhaps ironic - or even naive from the farmers' perspective.
    Alice; No problem.
    Tumblewords; I never saw the coincidental similariy...

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  16. from the title to the last word shouts... everything is there that needs to be said.. good one stanski... definitely a keeper

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  17. Thanks Onemorebeliever; The life-cycle of Rice.

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