Litter Pickers
Litter Pickers
There's litter pickers with a mighty touch
Rising early to do the task they love
They do it for free, that is how they are
No asking for payment, each one's a star.
Pickers are out whatever the weather
Getting through a mountain of shoe leather
Always with a beaming smile on their face
They have souls led by beatific grace.
They
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Categories:
pickers, care, devotion, environment,
Form: Rhyme
Cotton Pickers Lament
Cotton Picker’s Lament
Feet burn soul blends with the earth, the heat, the picking season
Hands, hard calloused leather punctuated by picking scars
Drag that long sack behind me across black bottom earth—
Cottonseed tucked into its sprouting place, waiting for the sun to make it spring
White from its deflowered purple-black boll
Exploding like my
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Categories:
pickers, black african american, slavery,
Form: Imagism
Pickers
The old lady passed away
as the elderly will.
Memorial cards arrive belatedly
from places far away.
‘Final Notices’ pile up
on a welcome mat.
Those who knew of her
claimed kinship once removed.
The vacated home picked over
in the measured haste
of part-time mourners.
A heavy recliner disappears
as if a feather upon a morning breeze.
Dainty china rattles in the back
of a fleeing pick-up.
Cushions and
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Categories:
pickers, poetry,
Form: Free verse
The Opihi Pickers
Danger for the opihi pickers,
It slides on rocks pounded by waves,
When threatened they stuck as stickers,
Danger for the opihi pickers,
Risk in the sudden surge that one braves,
Waves rise suddenly, breed jitters,
Danger for the opihi pickers,
It slides on rocks pounded by waves.
Date: 08/26/2019
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Categories:
pickers, 12th grade, 1st grade,
Form: Triolet
Categories:
pickers, sensual,
Form: Haiku
Pickle Pickers Convention
A Passel of People Participated from all Portions of the nation.
The Purpose - To Promulgate the Pickle Pickers and Packers Association!
Parsimonious President Dill Presented a Pretty Powerful oration,
To Pitch a Passionate Plan for their Prestigiious organization!
Picker seminars Provided Pertinent Particulars for Participants,
Pertaining to the Proper Pampering for Perpetuating Pickle Plants.
Packer Panels Propounded ways to Perfect
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Categories:
pickers, people,
Form: Rhyme
" Fer Those Pickers "
'Twas a cold cold day o'tune,
Fer those pickers down in Boone.
Fiddles brought so had they'd ought,
Newest feathers just store bought,
'Twas a cold cold day a'tune.
Fer those pickers down in Boone,
That wind she whistled well.
A'high up steeple rung that bell,
As sun did set upon those met,
'Twas a cold cold day a'tune.
Those fiddles danced as songs were
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Categories:
pickers, adventureday, day,
Form: Rhyme
The Stone Pickers
Toil
in the
mid-day sun-
still carrying the
can
artist-George Clausen
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Categories:
pickers, art, social
Form: Ekphrasis