Black Eyed Peas Oklahoma Summer
...Black-Eyed Peas (Oklahoma Summer)
David J Walker
The blooms arrive in June and by
July the pea pods start to dangle
Soon the picking will begin when
Grandma says so shading her eyes
From th...
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Categories:
canner, family,
Form: Free verse
Preserves
...Like glass jars
fresh from the canner...
neatly forced into rows
by content and date...
like this are the rows
of carefully calculated,
labeled and catalogued
pockets of my mind
Peaches c...
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Categories:
canner, writing,
Form: Blank verse
Cowboys
...-LAST DAYS OF OLD BEN-
“See that man up there on the mountain, son?”
“Yeah Pop, why’s he a’jes sittin there starin’ out at nuthin?"
Well, son it ain’t nothin’ he’s seein’…Just nuthin we can’t ...
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Categories:
canner, death, longing, love, boy,
Form: Cowboy Poetry
Moving Away
...How safe can your world possibly be
when even the school principal lines you up a couple of inches from a cinder-block wall
and punches you in the chest against the wall as he questions you.
You...
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Categories:
canner, angst, childhood, world,
Form: Free verse