Benjamin W. Farley was born in the Philippines, but grew up on farms in Virginia and on Army posts scattered across America. He graduated from Davidson College and received his Master's degree and Doctorate of Philosophy from Union Theological Seminary in Virginia.  He is Younts Professor of Philosophy and Religion at Erskine College in Due West, SC, where he has taught since 1974. Below is a sample of his poetry.

TO THE PATTER OF RAIN

Gray mist enlocks fog-veiled fields

Of blackened cornstalks,

Bent and bowed,

Swathed in drizzle and tattered cloud.

Dark, soft, earth-brown

Reds of autumn

Tint dogwoods and dapple pine,

Draping gullies and sodden ground

With broken bramble and kudzu vine.

And in the evening

To the patter of rain

You come to me

In the memory of a dress

That rustled.

                    ~Benjamin Wirt Farley, Ph.D.

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