BAREFOOT BROWN KIDDIES
Poet’s Note : Robertson & Ashton are two small wine producing towns in the Karoo of South Africa. Robertson is known as the Town of Roses & Wine because it is exceedingly beautiful, yet the wealth discrepancies between the farm owners & their workers remain vast, even to this day. I worked on a small
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Categories:
farmland, change, emotions, environment, farm,
Form: Political Verse
Scarecrows
Scarecrows
Birds foes
Farmland
They stand
Dress codes
Old clothes
Plus hat
With that
Deploy
Decoy
Away
Birds stay
No fear
This year
Good yield
From field
Without
A doubt
The best
Harvest
Backed by
Straw guy
Straw gal
As well.
(The girl scarecrows do well too lol)
24.08.23
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Categories:
farmland, bird, farm,
Form: Footle
Trespassing Herdsman
Ibrahim saw Abraham try to spit
But about the rudeness thought not a bit:
Herdsman coarsely attacked with a spittle
And it had no meaning or just little,
Whereas it was Abraham’s wished battle
Against his teeming hundred cattle
just placidly grazing on his farmland,
For gratitude discharging dung on sand!
Ibrahim, the black like burnt kettle,
Would, confronted, give a fight
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Categories:
farmland, animal, business, places, violence,
Form: Rhyme
Farmland Allowed To Teacher
Many would have for it killed
And blood of The Guiltless spilled,
True Catholics to surprise,
For it fight and let voice rise!
An eye catching Rich Terrain
That knows how to welcome rain;
Enough to envy arouse
Against its tiller a grouse
For this I clench thankful fist
Of one who knows how lips twist,
The Disfavoured Man A
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Categories:
farmland, business, cancer, celebration, prejudice,
Form: Rhyme
Farmland
Farmland
David J Walker
I am
The dreamland
Of the farm
The zauberhaft/magic-craft
Found in the brown dirt
Beneath the feats
of farmers
I am
The farmhand of
The sacred farmland
Often found
Ground into dust and
Blown by the wind
Into the next county
I am the dirt ground into grime
and found
beneath the fingernails
of farmers
having coffee
in
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Categories:
farmland, allegory, farm,
Form: Rhyme
Farmland
The Farmland
The mid-west of the USA flat plain many farmers
tilling rich soil; red barns under a blue sky.
The community thrived, cows and horses in the fields
the Amis people lived nearby in peace with God.
There was harmony here and whispering grass.
Agricultural – business moved in, bought up land
the farmers could not compete and sold out.
Empty
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Categories:
farmland, corruption, dark,
Form: Blank verse
Categories:
farmland, environment, food, future,
Form: Monoku
What the Farmland Wind Shall Bring
In the dark
By candle
At my kitchen table
I begin to sign the monthly checks.
Soon the sun will rise
A flood lifting an orchard light
Of cherries and white clouds
Dappled blossoms
From the bottom of my feet
To just below my eyes
I peak above the neighbor’s horizon
The farm fields of knee-high spring wheat
Is combed by a young wind
Shredding the tips
Of the
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Categories:
farmland, america, family, farm, home,
Form: Free verse
Earthy Glow On a Farmland
Sometime, in July's budding charm
when the harvest of earth's clay affirms
that which exposes a content heart,
I remember a glimpse of rare delight
accepting the slow exposure of one morn
when daylight warms Grandpa’s hands
soaked in earthy glow on his farmland.
A rumbling wind turns amiable,
as bamboo drifts along lush curls
glossing the husk of our fond whispers,
oh, it
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Categories:
farmland, happiness, places,
Form: Free verse
Our Farmland
In this farm where boats sail on oil,
On overflowing oil, we yet live in a dream.
The things we see should not be said
The things we say should not be heard
And the things we hear
Are grossly absurd.
Such absurdities as
Trees growing upside down,
Fishes fly and birds swim.
The father and the son cannot
Look in each other’s eyes again.
Now
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Categories:
farmland, patriotic, political, satire, people,
Form: Didactic