Long Henhouse Poems

Once upon Trump time,
Free-range,
organic,
totally uncaged hens
brown
and black
and even white
and all things in-between
prepared to vote for more green climate health
growing indoor/outdoor good-egg chicken family values
planning to optimize healthy wealth
green ecoschool henhouse natural-spiritual remodeling
for deep and richly...

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Every friggin day
mother hen runs amuck,
while all chicken's
beady eyes appear awestruck
drawing particular
agitation, irritation, perturbation...

of Punxsutawney (Doctor) Phil
(well grounded) woodchuck,
the latter glaring at henpecked
yours truly rifled
tail feathered rooster,
whether communicating 

nonverbal sympathy
towards me, a garden variety
Gallus gallus...

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September meets with warm embrace,
 quickening the harvest pace,
though looming autumn can't efface 
 what's left of summer's arid grace.

The linen hanging on the line 
 dances with the gust and shine,
while maypops heavy on...

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tHE aLTO).....HEY I HAVEN'T SEEN YOU IN A LONG TIME
WHATS BEEN GOING ON
WHATS BEEN HAPPENING
TELL ME EVERYTHING
tHE BASSMAN).....WELL i GOT MARRIED: CHEATED ON MY WIFE HAD FOUR KIDS: i GOT DIVORCED
MY kIDS MOVED IN WITH...

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As the rooster crows:
 
A look in the pool mirrored a perfect mop
At times of frizzy hair or defiant shaggy tresses
Ohhh the satisfaction at the sight 
And yabba, dabba, doo!! echoed loud and clear
Triumphant male...

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The “rinodemwiticus”

It stood proudly hungry
watching all the others sate themselves
promising them forever more.
It turned – I saw the other face
preening itself as it strode
through the debris of its
efforts to build a bigger nest.
I watched it...

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I remember so well the calico aprons that my Mother wore.
She made them from feed sacks that Father needed no more.
She wore them mainly to keep her pretty dresses pristine,
But she found so many other...

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Outside, the night was rainy and grey
a blustery wind from the north blew cold.
Inside the coup it was light as day;
cozy and warm, and the light glowed gold.
The Chickens content as they settled for night;
looking...

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"The sky it falleth every day --
along with bird sh*t."
-- Mother Earth of still a Chicken Little
dying of a birth defect, disease, disaster, accident, or human abuse
yet
each
five
sec-
onds

*  *  *

No hen has any right...

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On My Blindness

I'm going blind;
Blind from picking roses in the graveyard.
Blind from being what I'm not.
Blind from being what I am.

I am losing my sight;
Once I could shoot a rabbit
At a hundred yards.
In the head.

Oh...

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The fox in the henhouse

The settlers are burning down Palestinians olive trees,
No main newspapers care to report the truth the settlers are conniving
With the Israeli government to do this unopposed.
What we a witnessing is the...

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Meet the mother - old Miss Jenny
She gave birth to chicks aplenty
(Never dreamed she’d have so many)

But sly Wiley, a hungry fox
Was more threatening than the cocks
Tummy growling, he picked the pen’s locks

As her chicks...

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Egg so fragile
new creation
new heart beating
in the henhouse
bird that might have been

Egg so fragile
nature’s wonder
beneath its mother
warm and cozy
bird that might have been

Egg so fragile
fresh and faultless
I salute you
I salute you
bird that might have been
	
Egg...

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Where do you meditate? The animals queried each other.
I meditate in the pouch, the baby kangaroo said, inside my mother.
I meditate in the henhouse, as I give thanks for dinner said the fox.
I am not...

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The sounds of the morning 
As the sun starts to rise;
The birds, they are chirping
As the rooster, he cries.
The chores, they are waiting;
Cows ready to provide
The milk for my coffee
On which that I thrive.

The eggs...

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Babe, she was a Bantam,
And lots of eggs she laid.
While others ruled the henhouse 
It was in the yard she stayed.

Harvey loved his favorite
And when he drank iced tea,
The hen hopped on the table 
And...

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