The Midwest

Life in the Midwest reminds me of Johnny Cash and "Sunday Morning Coming Down"

I was born of the ceaseless plains

with the endless sky above

It was there I learned to wander

it was there I learned to love

 

Despite where life had taken me

from green grass to black sea foam

I’d cried to each wind filled valley

"will I ever find a home"

 

Days of life would pass on to years

distant plains rang out a plea

Over the rivers and valleys

where my home had drank of me

 

The Midwest had been calling me

as it echoed out in song

"I am the land of your fathers

and here is where you belong"

 

 

Author's Note

For many of the years of my life I wondered why I never felt at home when I traveled far and wide? Then as I aged it came to me. There is a reason birds fly back to where they were born and fish swim thousands of miles to spawn in the rivers they were born from. Who we are is as simple as where we came from. So I came home to start a family and pass that to my own children.

Reviews

[WILDERNESS]

Beautiful poetry. Could not have put it in a better way. Yes, the dust we are raised from is the dust that we should be burried into.................... Splendid poem.

[Tate Morgan]

Thank you I agree we are as simple as from where we come bury me in the land of my fathers

[Jack Wolfe]

A quint and down-to-earth message, its those memories that echo throughout our hearts no matter the distance we travel, the old adage says 'home is where the heart is" true, but perhaps the heart is ever truly seeking home.

[Tate Morgan]

Thank you Jack sorry this took a while to answer I have been working

[Roy Mark Azanza Corrale..]

The Midwest is another inspiring and wonderful masterpiece, it is truly a refreshing and felt that am part of such wonderful place to remember.

[Tate Morgan]

Thank you once you are bitten it is hard to find a cure for the midwest

[Mary C]

Soulful and wistfully intriguing. beautifully penned

[Tate Morgan]

Thank you I am just a boy from the fields of the midwest

[Ayushi]

Thanks for sharing this great message which you have learnt through your experience.
Very well written ..

[Tate Morgan]

Thank you I do try to put to words my thoughts and feelings

[TPK Stories]

Guess I know why I want to go back to Boise, Idaho...where I was raised...excellent write, Tate...

[Tate Morgan]

Hi Val thanks yeah it is a pull we all need to heed I wish everyone had the chance to reconect with their heritage. thank you

[Penny]

Really emotional piece. Its sad that for betterment, liberation or security people have to leave their homes and go to places alien to them. But farther you go more you long to return to your native land, just as the force gets stronger when you move far from the magnet. My grandfathers too came from Punjab to this city and I know the feeling, despite having faced wartime trauma. I didn't live there still, that place is more special to me than my city. Very nice poem. Thumbs up!

[Tate Morgan]

Thank you Penny we all hear the sirens that becon us to home the well spent life will always be in from the winds if change the echo of home

[Penny]

My pleasure tate.. you are really a great poet and its an honour for you be able to read you.

[Tate Morgan]

Thank you I am both honored and humbled

[Penny]

Me too..

[Penny]

Me too..

[manchilld99]

Good. Captures without fanfare one of the most powerful and universal of human motives: to find one's way home.

[Tate Morgan]

Thank you so
Much I can't deny it was with me all along

[Ian Gilmour]

Attentive readers will feel the weight of the odyssey in each word you have carefully selected for this poem. This is great.

[Tate Morgan]

Thank you Ian

[Coyote Poetry]

"I am the land of your fathers
and here is where you belong"
Good music and powerful poetry. Above lines are words to live by. Thank you friend for the outstanding poetry.
Coyote

[Tate Morgan]

Thank you coyote yeah we cannot escape the mark branded upon our soul by our home thank you