We Go 2 War -Living In The USA
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I had the worst terrors last night
My mind was in a gruesome sight
The ‘ol apocryphal scene
Insighted by the new regime
Migration bill stirs fear among
Farmworkers chant that It’s Wron...
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Categories:
farmworkers, song, usa,
Form: Lay
union of voices
...they ache from bending hot day picking....
union of voices spanish tongue
in produce fields dusty sweating farmworkers....
wanting needing more bread...
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Categories:
farmworkers, 6th grade, 7th grade,
Form: Monoku
Let The Laborers Rest
...Let the laborers rest,
like poetry, the rhyme is in their job,
as they hammer the nails,
and man the railroads,
maids clean someone else's toilets,
others fell giant trees,
as the waitresses tw...
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Categories:
farmworkers, 6th grade, 7th grade,
Form: Free verse
Jose Mendoza
...Jose Mendoza, was a young migrant farmworker,
he was harvesting sweet potatoes on
Barnes Farming property in Spring Hope,
North Carolina on September 5, 2023.
The temperature was in the 90's,
a...
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Categories:
farmworkers, 7th grade, 8th grade,
Form: Elegy
Old Macdonald's Great-Grandchildren
...We are old MacDonald’s great-grandchildren
who help him in his fields during weekends,
We gather chopped hays and feed his chicken,
then watch him works with his farmers and friends.
We...
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Categories:
farmworkers, granddaughter,
Form: Rhyme
Up In Smoke - With Satan's Folk
...Up in Smoke With Satan's Folk!
Our Nation, State, burns up in smoke; it’s rape and pillage time!
As Satan’s folk trash social bulwarks, ‘brotherhood’s a crime.’
God’s nai...
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Categories:
farmworkers, horror, humor, political,
Form: Rhyme
Systemic 'Pandemics'
...We’ve had warnings before of real dangers we face,
Populations whose growth could exceed Earth’s resources! (1)
Might chemicals used to produce more (enrich some)
Be curse if we poison consumers, ...
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Categories:
farmworkers, faith, science,
Form: Rhyme
Billy and Bubba
...When I was a lad in the 50s, there lived a man named Mr. Mac. He resided in a farming community in Northern Mississippi. Two of his sons are the source of a story living in my heart. It's a story o...
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Categories:
farmworkers, addiction, america, blessing, christian,
Form: Prose Poetry
Scarecrow
...Invigilator par excellenence
Dressed in rags and standing adamant
In soul-killing solitude
Wedded to inane duty of scaring birds
Drawing attention of solitary wayfarers
Seizing with wo...
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Categories:
farmworkers, imagination, inspirational, philosophy,
Form: Free verse