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Plow

Niel

Monday, October 19th, 2015

1 Leave a comment on verse 1 0 every year
we argue and row
about the team
but on we plow*

2 Leave a comment on verse 2 0 support is all
we go and flow
the team we love
will onward plow*

3 Leave a comment on verse 3 0 why oh why
give up and die
stay and glow
workers plow*

4 Leave a comment on verse 4 0 stay the way
don’t go away
we will flow
if we go

5 Leave a comment on verse 5 0 on an’ on an’ on
plow! *

Notes

My grandfather was a farm in Lancashire who still used the low or plough – an agricultural implement used to cut furrows in and turn up the soil, preparing it for planting. The plow is generally considered the most important tillage tool. Its beginnings in the Bronze Age were associated with the domestication of draft animals and the increasing demand for food resulting from the rise of cities. The plow is depicted on Egyptian monuments, mentioned in the Old Testament, and described by Hesiod and Vergil.

Editor Note: *Plough vs. plow

In American and Canadian English, plow is the preferred spelling of the farm implement and its related verbs. Plough is the preferred spelling in the main varieties of English from outside North America.

The spelling distinction applies to all senses of the word, including figurative ones. British and Australian writers always use plough, along with ploughed and ploughing; American and Canadian writers always use plow, plowed, and plowing. Both spellings are pronounced the same.

Examples: North America

In winter he plows the streets, and in spring he trims the trees. [The Atlantic]

Russell confronted a man who had stolen a snow plow and was driving across the city. [Toronto Sun]

Plowing through a stack of mail, he came to an envelope that read “This is not a bill.” [Washington Post]

Outside North America:

The larger ones had been removed by the boys, swinging pickaxes into the iron land before the ploughing began. [Independent]

It was me that opted to plough through the storm. [Sydney Morning Herald]

A man who ploughed into a crowd of revellers outside a bar in Rochdale has been jailed indefinitely. [BBC News]

Source: http://footballpoets.org/poems/plow/