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Writer's pictureE. G. Runyan

Hay-Bale Days: A Poem

Updated: Aug 1, 2023



I love hay-bales. How they shine in the sunlight. How they smell so sweet. I have many memories of jumping from bale to bale in bright barns or in sunny fields. So of course, I had to write a poem about it.


Hay Bale Days


Our parents were busy in the shop

So we wandered away

To find the bales and eagerly flop

On the bound-up piles of hay.


They lined up in that empty field

We hopped from one to one

You could hear as laughter peeled

It was simple, but such fun!


And we stood up there and we looked down

At the metal barn and pond

At the gravel road that ran from town

Here we’ll always have a bond.


It was years ago

But I’ll never forget

That joy so far from woe

Come now, let’s sit

On the bales again

And watch the road below.


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