Sunday Demands.
Rain wringing out cold drops on sodden yards,
wetting Sunday-faced parents
plus ripples of special-dressed offspring shiver
while mincing upwards in
mud-spattered lines to their weekly salvation.
Built with stone-hard resign and parson ruled
cliff-top portals proffer no finery.
Blackened by season's salined vageries walls
where maids and their matrons
enter and kneel for sermon's heard warnings
burgeon with sin's built-in aches.
Hatted heads bow as passing dark clouds fling
showered reminders to men,
bent on repair work, know gale-flattened grain
awaits redemption from
sudden winds, cattle-full shed needs spading
and as rickety gates reel
on torn hinges believe time wastes in Sunday
attire when dire demands
out-pitch the rattle of plated coins by brisker
attention paid to maintenance.
Farm-folking labour takes precedence, save
for one holy-day when,
appetite, chapel-quenched, Sunday skirts lift
as boots skid downwards again
to kitchen heaven of savoury smells, tables
stocked in warm welcome
of ready food as kin-folk fill before venturing,
sin-cleansed, preacher-forgiven and
replete with thanks for rude health let hands
continue to weather habitual
hymn-expectations by accepted dependence
of Sunday-demands in living off land.
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Author:
Fay Slimm. (
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sunday,
the last day of the week
and the beginning of a new one.
What a fantastic poem! "Hatted heads bow"...We don't much do hats in america. I don't even own a hat! I would love to attend a church in England! I digress.....back to your poem, it is very descriptive and I read it twice because it was so wonderful!
WEll penned Fay
Some great descriptive here of a life well led I wonder what a city version of this would read like
NO... I hope I never find out
A fine write Fay. One place I knew insisted on hats or scarves or some head-covering for women. Hope it's not irreverent to say, but it made some of them look frumpy, or a gathering of the W.I. They can be terrifying, you know! lol. Have I put my foot in it? Are you in the W.I.?
Great write and for the record I'm not in the WI although I do sometimes give talks to them - but I forgive Orchi.
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