Short Foragers Poems

Sea purslane & wild garlic
A pot roasted rabbit
cooked with boletus fungi
Winter chantrelles
Japanes knotweed
Apple juice
Wild!...

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herring gulls flocking
foraging at the beaches-
 disappearing lunch

7/27/18
  
Contest - Son of Senryu
Sponsor - Brahn Bailey...

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with her boundless reaches
she moves within the crowds
houses with no windows
contemplates the leaves
barrowing with the foragers
wisdom has gone away
fickle with the winds
have reached their destination
the torches watch their gust

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You will see them
In the malls
Once proud
Vibrant
Semi-predatory
Creatures
Idling
Semi-lurking
Outside
Ladies dressing rooms
Lingering
Near
Ladies bath rooms
Scanning
Unfamiliar horizons
Seeking out their prey
Short grey haired
Quick
In a slyly agile way
Evaders
Of a known hunter
Foragers
Averting the gaze
Of those
Once proud
Vibrant
Semi-predatory
Creatures
Left holding
Their bags.
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Listen to poem:

Foragers of the Prairie Forest
David J Walker

Faith  that the rains will return 
Like faith in the next breath breathed in 
doth befall without thought of 
What it is we are breathing 

An atmosphere 

Devoid of moisture 

A forest of prairie grass

A canopy of the universe in 

Hues of day and stars at night


We are living
We are breathing    
We are surviving 
On a diet of faith that

God hath not forgot the 
Foragers of the prairie forest...

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