Back Country Poems - Poems about Back Country

...32 Bar Blues: A Spoken Word Poem In the shadow of the neon’s dusty glow, Oh, the blues, got me cryin’/echoes of Otis Span whisper, “Why?” Champion Jack Dupree, a voice so true, I’m lost in the Bad ......

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...No connection found we're lost on back country roads guessing directions......

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...A crude young fellow from upstate New York He never learned to handle a fork He jabbed at his food In fact, he was quite rude And he behaved like a back country dork. ......

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...silence is broken as dog barks in back country alerting owners......

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...Beautiful bird Stay here don't fly away love In a kingdom full of slopes and trees Tour chirping I hear, they're heard So wonderful Beautiful bird Fluttering and flying It was a mo......

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...Dear Papa, Sad, my siblings and I, Never got to meet with you; You left us too soon, Out in this cold, dark and unjust climate; Out in the deep ghettos and jungles; In the hands of conmen and w......

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......Through the woodlands the riflemen did steam, reinforcing General Greene’s second line, the British pressed on, still on the attack, but they had quite the devil of a time. Marching through ......

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...No sunrise sparkled brighter, No thunder clapped, No trumpet sounded at your birth. You were just born, Grew to live youth, To fish back country ponds, summer streams, Run roadways and highways......

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...The old jalopy feels unloved and unwanted. Many years now she has languished in this long-abandoned junkyard. Unhinged, she is an utter wreck. She had been kept for her "parts" but now, not eve......

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...A SEASON OF INDIGENCE This drought and curse Of hand to mouth; An unrepentant encroachment of pauperism Impregnating our back country Discern, Our bigwigs in back country Stand aloof While,......

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...Does “childish” come to mind when discussing politics Did you say no??? You must be living in the sticks With no Internet or TV Haven't heard of these geeks? Sure boggles my mind, these ......

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...I The form we take In the shape of a life From trumpet birth blasts To the final shadow sighs The faithful leap From a Dayton hill To silver supersonic flight A mountain of yellowing Paper w......

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...I. When Sullivan ‘Reno’ Richards rode into the small, northern Utah town of Stillman, he’d been unemployed going on three months since he’d left his job as a hired gunhand. He’d turned in his ......

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...I was in a bar in Texas, in the eastern back-country, with three beers already inside and another draining quickly. It was a perfect redneck bar, the kind of place I love, with sawdust on the f......

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...In the rugged mountain passes Of the western Carolinas, Just west of Hendersonville and east of Kentucky, USA, In the land of the foothills and steep valleys down, Exists a remote land forgotten ......

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