Alliance Wheat

June Wheat, near Alliance, NE
© 2000 Elke Edwards; Fujichrome Sensia 100

If God is this winter wheat whose seed slept
under snow just months ago
awaiting still another awakening,
and now stands raised yet deep-rooted
on heads-up stalks, billowing in the wind
like the sea that once labored here;

If God is this winter wheat
flooding these plains
and rolling away from me
as far as I can see
even to that distance only
seen beyond sight,
that further view of faith;

continued ...
--Warren L. Molton

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