Poetry: Scarecrows - by Kasper Hoe

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by Kasper Hoe

Created on: October 09, 2010

Mr. Scarecrow

Oh Mr. Scarecrow
keep the birds away
from my fields of pumpkins and corn.
Don't let them stay.

They eat it all, Mr. Scarecrow.
I need your assistance
to keep them all away from here.
If you succeed in happiness I'd dance.

Oh Mr. Scarecrow
I'm happy to have you.
Scare the birds away.
I mean all of them - not just a few.

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Poetry: Scarecrows

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by Darren Horton

The farmers plough, prepare and sow the land
Then plant a scarecrow in a central spot
To guard the seed from thieving crows,
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by Jenifer Rose

Alone in the cornfield

He stands night and day

His sole purpose

To keep crows away

Filled with straw

Dressed in old clothes
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by Janette Waldron

Silent little sentinels

Dressed in threadbare clothes and straw

Protectors of the corn they thought

Yet they’d protect
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by Scott Scherr

It's not the substance
that they fear,
nor his reach
when they draw near.
It's the knowing
that he's there,
a constant, chilling,
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by Samia Ali Arroyo

Scarecrows

The farmer toiled all night and day.

He plowed the fields and stacked the hay.

He planted corn that grew real

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