Behind the Grindstone

Behind the Grindstone: King of the Mountain

| Bill Bunting | Behind the Grindstone
It’s interesting to watch as our society deals with their so called social issues. It seems the more they struggle to become what they are not the more they become what they are.

Behind the Grindstone: Forbidden Love

| Bill Bunting | Behind the Grindstone
There’s love for the prairie
And love on the prairie as well
It’s a love story on the prairie
This love story that we tell

Behind the Grindstone: True Love

| Bill Bunting | Behind the Grindstone
They acted like newlyweds
Though they’d been married forty years
They’d hung onto each other
Through the laughter and the tears

Behind the Grindstone: New Year's Resolution

| Administrator | Behind the Grindstone
Time has passed—The clock has ticked
We’re starting a year brand new

Behind the Grindstone: Cow Country Santa

| Administrator | Behind the Grindstone
The old man and his grandson
Sittin’ in a reclinin’ chair
A place of close contentment
They spent time together there

Behind the Grindstone: Born in the Night

| Bill Bunting | Behind the Grindstone
The night is dark— as the herders sleep
Trusting in—the dogs to keep

Behind the Grindstone: Deacon

| Bill Bunting | Behind the Grindstone
The old man settin’ there on the porch
His hair and mustache white
The young man with a pencil and pad
Lookin’ for a story to write

Behind the Grindstone: Amoebae

| Bill Bunting | Behind the Grindstone
Well, we are comin’ up on the day that has made November famous. Thanksgiving.

Behind the Grindstone: Hitch Up Your Team

| Bill Bunting | Behind the Grindstone
It seems in today’s world no one wants to pull their own weight or haul their own freight. Instead of draggin’ their own wagon they hitch their team to the wagon that’s movin’ fastest.

Behind the Grindstone: Offended

| Administrator | Behind the Grindstone
Well, here we go again. In the midst of having to change the offensive names of school mascots, logos, mountains, towns, creeks and the list goes on and on we now are at risk of contacting another virus.

Behind the Grindstone: Band Aid

| Bill Bunting | Behind the Grindstone
Jake was an old-time cowboy. A through back from the olden days.

Behind the Grindstone: Crisis in Crisis

| Administrator | Behind the Grindstone
It seems our Climate Change Crisis may be itself facing a crisis. The headlines read “New Message to Aliens will Reflect an Earth in Danger of Climate Crisis.

Behind the Grindstone: An Ol' Friend

| Bill Bunting | Behind the Grindstone
Here on the prairie in what I reckon is known as rural America, where day to day decisions are made affecting life and livelihood based on common sense, it seems much of society has gone insane. I wrote this poem and it was published several years ago but it seems more relevant as time goes on.

Behind the Grindstone: Signs

| Bill Bunting | Behind the Grindstone
Covid. That’s about all you hear about in the news.

Behind the Grindstone: Pablo's Christmas

| Bill Bunting | Behind the Grindstone
The bunkhouse was full
‘Cause the trail was snowed in
Things were right tense
And patience ran thin

Behind the Grindstone: Pop's Wisdom

| Bill Bunting | Behind the Grindstone
He was old and he was scrawny
His beard was turnin’ gray
Few there were who would listen
To what Pops had to say
© 2016 Kiowa County Independent 1316 Maine Street P.O. Box 272 Eads, CO 81036 | 719.438.2040