Short Gatherers Poems

Evolution: we've gone from hunters and gatherers to buyers and collectors.

For best one-liner contest. 7/12/16...

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Seagulls saunter the shoreline, nipping at scraps of dead fish

     Hunters and gatherers will soon have more than a bellyful

          Gils choked by the black tar and oiled wings await Gulf sea life...

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We're all hunter-gatherers when you get down to it
Not just piles of moolah, but pretty things must admit
Just a dozen or so
My prowess to show
Not bragging but well... around town my stuff's a hit...

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Pines dressed in pearl hues-
bleached cotton sky. Plumes carve
night shades into taint

of crushed bones. Stone
basalt tools grind glacier till
into pallid skin

colored clay, shaped
into ornate bowls that cradle
crow ossein. Hunter....

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Two planet suns 
Revolving around 
Space and time
Lock in this sacred 
Dance of eternity
More than one earth
To share with mankind
Still, we are nomadic
Hunters and gatherers
Where is thy faith?
How shall I start?
Now, we must pray
To more than one God...

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Man against man
Who shall it be
Descendants from trees
Hunters and gatherers
Conquest or wars
Achieve power and immortality
We kill with both hands
This curse from our past
We pray to our Gods
Enslave or genocide
Forgive us Lord,
We are descendants
From trees...

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Hollow eyed 
gatherers of material... things
thick egos smashing everything 
no understanding of our insignificance 
against the black curtain of time and star
forgetting the lessons from our scars
Christ crushing little rogues
'til we snap our heart bones
'til the awakening slaps us back 
into a puddle of our ashes...

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Good-gesture greenthumb gatherers gleaned grain,
gargantuan granary,
grower's great goodwill greeting,
gazillion grade-schoolers, grownups,
gingham-garbed grandmother's,
grievous growling guts gone,
gain gastronomical goodies gardens,
grapes, granola, gourds, gosh!
generosity galore, golly, gobsmacked!
golden godsend...

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Dotty doggy duo, daily derring-do,
descending leaves decorating yard,
Beau-black as coal,
brown-eyed batty Gus,
barking brazenly, bounding,
both bonkers?
a boisterous, "You betcha!"

Kings of calamity-
canines of chaos,
squirrels scurry for sweet sanity,
scolding silver September
acorn gatherers,
sedulously seeking sedatives!...

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Sparkling, empty blue sea
sails break the distant horizon
first one
then two
finally three ships making way 
toward unsuspecting shell-gatherers
brown-skinned and naked on
the hot Caribbean sand

Had they known 
they could have feigned friendship
Then slaughtered them all in the night
Burned the great ships and
been done with it.
At least for a while...

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She, like dark
liquid alabaster
on a busy street
moves like music
deferential, sweet
She, like spring water
pushed dust before her
gatherers warm hair
on her marble shoulder

All who watch her, pass
stop, look awhile, 
greet alabaster girl 
She dances, laughs
needs never glance
in shop glass
Alabaster girl 
free, beauty abundant
please smile for me...

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we are all descendent of
the African man
tribes of hunters and gatherers
we are all God's children
in the beginning
there was darkness and
out of darkness came the light
the seeds are planted
in dark mother earth
Adam was made from
the dark clay first
the hands of God moves
this dark universe and
we are made in the
image of the black creator God
because your dark skin
is a blessing but not a curse...

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Years have passed
time upon time
civilizations have come and gone
and this truth remains:
Men are still hunters

The hunt remains
as long as the prey escapes
Once caught
and the hunter devours
the pursuit is on for another....

Women are still gatherers
The gather words
Thinking them precious
nourishing for the soul
They still gather
caresses and kisses
Tender words
affection's bliss

Women are still gatherers
gatherers of hunter heads

Eileen Manassian...

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