Cortes Nonet Poem – Farming – Lovers of Nature

#New Poetry Form

Farming is the life

Life of love and devotion

Devotion, commitment for farming

Farming is a real passion that we all love

Love from sunrise to sunset daily and much longer

Longer days calving-time, harvesting, twenty-four hours a day

Day is another word for counting the calendar of a lifetime.

Farming is a winner, where there’s value for the soil, water, wildlife

Wildlife flying over head, animals calling in the bush

Bush where conservation obligations always reign

Reign supreme for the future generations

Generations most often value land

Land, farmers always cherish

Cherish forever.

Cortes Nonet – invented by Josephine Ann Louise Cortes-Love  aka MajesticRose on AllPoetry, March 2012. It was inspired by the original Nonet.

14 lines (2 stanzas, 7 lines each)
First stanza syllable count as follows:  5/7/9/11/13/15/17
Second stanza syllable count as follows:  17/15/13/11/9/5
The last word of each line is the first word of the next line.  (word form)
The first word of the second stanza can either be the last word of the first stanza OR a new word

The poem can rhyme or have no rhyme at all. Centred.

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