Featured Poet Blaine Chazelle

Blaine Chazelle
December 3, 2008

Homeland

Is this where I should be?

Knee high to a grasshopper I ran the fields

It was an easy life of hard work

Where is seemed like time stood still

Back in the woods

We grew what we ate

And never let any waste

I remember it well the stars at night

Cows in the pasture

The sweet aroma of the swine

Now it's city light

And life at a 100mph

I’ll always wish for a simpler time

But I settle with this for now

I love the line "It was an easy life of hard work" Hard physical labor can be less taxing than thinking and worrying about paying the bills as a grown up. Remember than oxymoron thing people? That's this line. Two contradictory ideas next to each other. Excellent work, Blaine.