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Rated: E · Poetry · Nature · #1857209
The Woodpecker and the Farmers
Silent
apples hang on
their trees waiting for the
pickers.

A noise,
a tapping sound,
echoing through the trees
wake up

growers
sleeping in the
orchard and waiting to
harvest

ripe fruit.
A woodpecker
sits on a tree pecking
for worms.

Line count: 16
Form: An Aquarian is a poem composed of 4-line stanzas with not stanza limit, no required rhyme, and a syllable count of 2-4-6-2.

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