"Rye Fields" by Shishkin‘Just Doin’ Our Job’: A Sonnet in Terza Rima by T.M. Moore The Society November 17, 2024 Children's, Poetry, Science, Terza Rima 3 Comments . Just Doin’ Our Job As if they didn’t have enough to do already—harvesting the light to make food for the tree and seeing to it you and I have clean air every day—leaves slake their host tree’s constant thirst by managing the process whereby unseen roots will take the water from the soil and, like a spring of life, disperse it upwards and throughout the tree, defying gravity—a thing not easily achieved. But give a shout out to the leaves, which use osmosis to accomplish this and keep the tree from drought. “It’s nothing,” we leaves say. “We’re glad to do the work each day that we’re appointed to.” . . T. M. Moore is Principal of The Fellowship of Ailbe, a spiritual fellowship in the Celtic Christian tradition. He and his wife and editor, Susie, make their home in the Champlain Valley of Vermont. 3 Responses Roy Eugene Peterson November 17, 2024 A great lesson for life. Reply Shari LeKane November 18, 2024 The Terza Rima rhyme scheme works well with this theme! Reply T. M. November 18, 2024 Glad you liked the poem. Thanks. Reply Leave a Reply Cancel ReplyYour email address will not be published.CommentName* Email* Website Δ