Broken sonnets – 1
- Aug 28, 2025
- 1 min read
Franz Jäegerstätter
Franz Jaegerstatter was an Austrian farmer who refused to fight for Nazi Germany. He was tried and guillotined in 1943.
One Summer Morn
Coming from the fields, farmer Franz, farmer Franz,
Coming from the fields one Summer morn
You dance with Theresia making
A child as you were made –
One Summer long ago, among the corn.
Loving is for me, not killing, you decide.
In loving, something good is born,
One Summer long ago, among the corn.
They took your neck and pinned it down
Ready to sever bone from bone
A cut that sliced you like the scythe that cut the corn
Out in the fields where once was born
Your joy – Oh farmer Franz –
One Summer morn.
