Eight-line Poems

Hill Farmers

Hill Farmers

In England, in the hills
where the soil is thin and poor,
a few farmers still scratch at the earth,
subsistence the order
of their lives, hard labour their penance,
their comforts few and short.
Over here, in America,
the Appalachians offer the same.


Line Count: 8
Free Verse
For Express It In Eight, December 08 2020
Prompt: Comfort.