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The Cotton Patch
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The Cotton Patch |
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Mike Member Elite
since 1999-06-19
Posts 2462 |
Can't find no heaven, Can't find no hell, Can't find no water, Down a stone dry well. Cottonpatch gives a Christmas pickin' If 'n no storm clouds a start to thicken, Backwaters risin', in a Mississippi flood, Can't a pick no cotton in a Mississippi mud, A hundred pounds in a burlap sack, Ain't no cure for a achin' back, Pickin' cotton, morn to night, Ain't no pain like a cottonmouth bite, Preacherman shouts, we're full a sin, Haulin' our cotton, to town to gin, Keep a pickin' cotton, Only time will tell, Can't find no heaven, Can't find no hell. |
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Meadowmuse Member Elite
since 1999-12-27
Posts 3263 |
Reading this, one can feel the beatin' heat 'pon the blisterin', stoopin' back and hear the low plaintive calling of the cotton blues. Rich and raw, lovely writing. Thanks for it. Claire Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other's eyes for an instant?......Henry David Thoreau |
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Martie
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Member Empyrean
since 1999-09-21
Posts 28049California |
Mike--Now all you need is a banjo and a chair and few friends...I'm tapping my foot here. |
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Lighthousebob Member Elite
since 2000-06-14
Posts 4725California |
Your poem captures the true spirit of a southern spiritual... and when them cotton balls get rotten you can't pick very much cotton in them ol' cotton fields back home.... just membrin' Bob <>< |
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Denise
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since 1999-08-22
Posts 22648 |
There is no limit to your talent, is there, Mike? This is fantastic!! |
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Marge Tindal 
since 1999-11-06
Posts 42384Florida's Foreverly Shores |
Oh, Mike~ What an image-laden render. Superb job of transference of thought. ~*Marge*~ ~*The pen of the poet never runs out of ink, as long as we breathe.*~ noles1@totcon.com |
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Sunshine
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Member Empyrean
since 1999-06-25
Posts 63354Listening to every heart |
I can hear these deep, painfilled voices carrying the tune so their feet will follow....well done Mike...VERY well done.... |
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Butterflies_dont_cry Member Elite
since 2000-03-06
Posts 3733Michigan |
Off the beaten path with this piece Mike, it's a change....but NOT a bad one...it had a Grapes Of Wrath feel to it that hit a sorrowful note...excellent work! |
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suthern
since 1999-07-29
Posts 20723Louisiana |
I remember my entire neighborhood gathering to pick cotton... even the kids had small bags to fill. Heat, dirt, and hard work... always accompanied by singing... you captured it well. |
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Mike Member Elite
since 1999-06-19
Posts 2462 |
Thank ya all kindly for the replies... haven't ever seen a cotton field in person.. probably a bit harder to pick cotton than combine wheat, I suspect.. |
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