Cherry Picking
Pigeons and Dreams
Blossoms now pink cherry
Find me watching pigeons
Fluffing wings in gaiety
Pick carry outers’ left-ons.
Pigeon will I be?
As clouds are gathering
Winds of change met me
Cold and biting _
Visions of yesterday
Dreams in disarray.
Ah _ but to have wings!
Fly over the clouds let me
Swirl another fling!
A morrow will then be
Bright cloudless, like pigeons unafraid
Shake stretch my wings, new day warmly braved.
©NDR 7.19.2016
Early spring 1971 Farragut Square, DC, pondering a good
9 to 5 job. First you don't succeed...hmmm...
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Robert L. Martin
almost 3 yearsI arrived in New York City in February 1966. At first I was working in office buildings doing clerical jobs. Then in 1972, I put an ad in the Village Voice for music arranging jobs. I worked with a lot of bands, arranging and recording and writing lead sheets for singers & etc. I sure saw a lot of pigeons, there. Then I got married in 1985 and moved to Pennsylvania. So here I am.
Vic
almost 3 yearsI arrived New York in November 1972. Without a degree, having over-enjoyed seven years at UP Dilliman. With a wife and a two-month old son. I arrived on a Sunday, started working night shift following Tuesday at a garden hose factory in New Jersey, two hours away by subway/bus. Four months later I got really sick and I was fired! Best thing that happened to me. For like you, I was looking for work for a week and ended at Columbia University and worked in the mailroom. The rest is history...
Nice poem Brod.
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almost 3 yearsI like your poem, made me want to be a 70s pigeon.