Best Foragers Poems
Cacophony
...Pinning chests like puffins to project
fuzzy assertion,
huddled, brave foragers
chase the crumbs along the
&nbs......
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Categories:
foragers, allegory, nature
Form:
Free verse
Pickings
...When the snout of lush abundance is full and flowing,
when all prey and creature-kind spill upon the verdant swards,
then it is that I worry night and day,
for the stoat, fox and hawk are at work,......
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Categories:
foragers, poetry,
Form:
Free verse
The Foragers
...We forage for humanity,
hidden fruits quench our thirst.
Our hunting grounds, old overgrowth forest
just off the rail-line, down the hill to the
river, was a hobo camp long ago. Broken
potte......
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Categories:
foragers, metaphor,
Form:
Free verse
Symphonic Quiescent Overture Maestro Kant Imitate
...Tryouts starring musical prodigies
and/or an attendant conductor
attempt to approach ambient chorus
divinely exhibited from Gaia's handiwork
heavenly invoking kapellmeister's magnificent noncha......
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Categories:
foragers, age, allegory, angst, confusion,
Form:
Foragers Feast
...Sea purslane & wild garlic
A pot roasted rabbit
cooked with boletus fungi
Winter chantrelles
Japanes knotweed
Apple juice
Wild!......
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Categories:
foragers, food, nature, places
Form:
Epulaeryu
Stalked By August Trees
...Every time I change directions
lately, and possibly beforely,
Trees stand by to mentor
and nurture,
to feed with branched hands
to bleed when uprooted
from aptic past centuries
of hibernating ......
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Categories:
foragers, august, community, food, health,
Form:
Free verse
In the Mirror
...In the mirror,
When I look,
I see the son of thousands.
I see the son of the foragers,
The wanderers who hunted the world,
The agrarians who farmed the fields,
The ones driven by famine to stra......
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Categories:
foragers, grandfather, grandmother, immigration, mirror,
Form:
Narrative
Lucky
...Lucky is a red ear slider terrapin who currently lives with me.
For all intents and purposes, let's refer to Lucky as a she.
I named her Lucky because it was lucky that I just so happened to be
at th......
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Categories:
foragers, animal, life, red,
Form:
Rhyme
Feathered Foragers
...herring gulls flocking
foraging at the beaches-
disappearing lunch
7/27/18
Contest - Son of Senryu
Sponsor - Brahn Bailey......
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Categories:
foragers, beach, bird,
Form:
Haiku
Carniverous Carnival
...Carnival without merit, affinity, and association
Brash, bellowing band bleeting notes in oscillation
Circus creatures cavorting about with every unseemly provision
Cascading, carnival chorus clan......
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Categories:
foragers, fantasy
Form:
Rhyme
Listening To Snowfall
...At night you hear the falling where the air parts
to whisper its apologies.
Only after the snow has touched an eve or ledge
do you hear the settling; hollow sounds speaking
between uncountable ......
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Categories:
foragers, poetry,
Form:
Free verse
Comb Cultivation
...Scouts probe territory for nest site
Scour cracks, crevices that invite
Search cavity for any structural blight
Recon area for creatures that fright
Examination complete, return to hive
Inform......
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Categories:
foragers, education
Form:
Rhyme
War Is Where Nobody Wins
...War
Is where
Nobody wins
And everybody sins
At the unbeautiful bar
War is hell on earth
At birth
God created humans
To be better than the lions
And the other nefarious predators
That’s a gi......
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Categories:
foragers, conflict, death, hate, humanity,
Form:
Rhyme
Vietnam: the Eagle Has Landed
...Graceful predator perched on the precipice of woe
Your satin crown, ebony feathers cannot camouflage mision of misery you'll sow
Your balmy wings caress as dark shadows grow
You sharpen your talons l......
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Categories:
foragers, allegory, angst,
Form:
Rhyme
When Vitamin and Medication Bottles Became Plaything of the Missus
...When vitamin and medication bottles became plaything of the missus
Mental health of yours truly
heavily reliant upon one selective serotonin
reuptake inhibitor named fluoxetine (Prozac)
aside f......
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Categories:
foragers, adventure, anxiety, appreciation, bereavement,
Form:
Free verse