Short Water Pump Poems

The old red water pump,
draws water no more,
it's only there for
a memory.

wrote 4-5-11

at home we had this water pump and there was a well under neath it. but it gave out many 
years ago. My brother painted it red a long time ago, i saw a picture of it and this idea came 
to me....

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With its avatar that flies
the Amazon acclimatizes the earth    
With its flying rivers





   PS   It is this action of transporting huge amounts of water vapor by air currents that are called flying rivers – a term that perfectly describes, but in poetic terms, a real phenomenon that has a significant impact on our lives. The Amazon rainforest works like a water pump....

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A well-water pump cranks out its iron-water
    crooked wire remains -- once, sturdy chicken coops
  The brackish, muddy area over there, the cowshed
    some withered trees dot the hills, bereft now of their fruit

  A few young lads herd goats, or perhaps they are living skeletons?
    cows with ribs exposed, horses with manes as limp as rags ...
  Some day they'll come again, the strong, determined youth
    to bale the hay, to turn the rocks over, to plow and seed relentlessly ......

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