Login
|
Join PoetrySoup
Home
Submit Poems
Login
Sign Up
Member Home
My Poems
My Quotes
My Profile & Settings
My Inboxes
My Outboxes
Soup Mail
Contest Results/Status
Contests
Poems
Poets
Famous Poems
Famous Poets
Dictionary
Types of Poems
Videos
Resources
Syllable Counter
Articles
Forum
Blogs
Poem of the Day
New Poems
Anthology
Grammar Check
Greeting Card Maker
Classifieds
Quotes
Short Stories
Member Area
Member Home
My Profile and Settings
My Poems
My Quotes
My Short Stories
My Articles
My Comments Inboxes
My Comments Outboxes
Soup Mail
Poetry Contests
Contest Results/Status
Followers
Poems of Poets I Follow
Friend Builder
Soup Social
Poetry Forum
New/Upcoming Features
The Wall
Soup Facebook Page
Who is Online
Link to Us
Member Poems
Poems - Top 100 New
Poems - Top 100 All-Time
Poems - Best
Poems - by Topic
Poems - New (All)
Poems - New (PM)
Poems - New by Poet
Poems - Random
Poems - Read
Poems - Unread
Member Poets
Poets - Best New
Poets - New
Poets - Top 100 Most Poems
Poets - Top 100 Most Poems Recent
Poets - Top 100 Community
Poets - Top 100 Contest
Famous Poems
Famous Poems - African American
Famous Poems - Best
Famous Poems - Classical
Famous Poems - English
Famous Poems - Haiku
Famous Poems - Love
Famous Poems - Short
Famous Poems - Top 100
Famous Poets
Famous Poets - Living
Famous Poets - Most Popular
Famous Poets - Top 100
Famous Poets - Best
Famous Poets - Women
Famous Poets - African American
Famous Poets - Beat
Famous Poets - Cinquain
Famous Poets - Classical
Famous Poets - English
Famous Poets - Haiku
Famous Poets - Hindi
Famous Poets - Jewish
Famous Poets - Love
Famous Poets - Metaphysical
Famous Poets - Modern
Famous Poets - Punjabi
Famous Poets - Romantic
Famous Poets - Spanish
Famous Poets - Suicidal
Famous Poets - Urdu
Famous Poets - War
Poetry Resources
Anagrams
Bible
Book Store
Character Counter
Cliché Finder
Poetry Clichés
Common Words
Copyright Information
Grammar
Grammar Checker
Homonym
Homophones
How to Write a Poem
Lyrics
Love Poem Generator
New Poetic Forms
Plagiarism Checker
Poetics
Poetry Art
Publishing
Random Word Generator
Spell Checker
Store
What is Good Poetry?
Word Counter
Email Poem
Your IP Address: 3.149.7.172
Your Email Address:
Required
Email Address Not Valid.
To Email Address:
Email Address Not Valid.
Required
Subject
Required
Personal Note:
Poem Title:
Poem
When I was a small child I would always be outside, Must have blazed a hundred paths Just to see what I could find. Then they put me in a suit, And I cried out “I won’t go!” Left my home for wandering To see where I might roam. I trekked out through the prairie, But the farmer made me stop, Said to get on out of here, And stop damaging his crops. Then a rancher scowled at me, And no pasture would he loan, There’s no place on the prairie For men who want to roam. I walked up to the North Woods, The backcountry of Maine, Two days in a forest ranger Said I could not remain. He said it was timber land, No squatters would they know, Guess there’s no room in these trees For a man who wants to roam. So then I found the Rockies, Such a vast and empty space, Figured I could disappear Deep within that rugged place. But skiers came upon me, Said that I messed up their snow, Even in the high country There’s just no space to roam. The cedar swaps, big bayous, And deserts so vast and dry, Rain forests of Cascadia, All these places did I try. They’ve no love for wanderers, And they always told me so, What happens to men like me When there’s no place left to roam? One day I was in Florida, And I bought a rocket ship, They sent me to the heavens, I broke past Earth’s orbit. Facing that great, big darkness, With the vacuum and the cold, I saw what I dreamed about, Such endless space to roam…
CAPTCHA Preview
Type the characters you see in the picture
Required