Best Appalachians Poems

Old time Appalachians deep within the hollows.
Self-sufficient, hard working, fine mountain folks
With farming, barn raising, and crafting skills,
Logging, mining and music to pleasure the ear.

Devoted...

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Ancient, rugged hills worn down by time
I miss the lush green hills of my home
Leaning away from the peaceful valley,
Mountains forged from eons long forgotten
During...

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I Am Who I Am

Date: Wed, Dec 23 2015 at 8:11 PM

I don't wear no disguise
My True Self I can't hide
Without God I don't want...

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My roots lie buried in an unbroken line of brave men and women, my ancestors,
who, with boundless courage, sought a place where freedom was limitless...

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The Quakers, being religiously persecuted, set sail from expatriated England;
they were the first settlers to reach the shore of New England: a free land!
Later the...

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Majestically they've stood since time had its start
rising on a cartographer's global elevational chart
Mountain ranges, wondrous works of God's creation
that eyes have beheld for centuries...

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For there is freedom on 
top of the mount,
as I quench my thirst
from the Niagara Falls fount.
I have seen the Rockies 
and the Appalachians,
on journeys...

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The Bible says "thou shalt not kill"
now proudly join the army lad, and go kill,
come back home, and follow your Bible again.

O middle class, your...

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AMERICAN SPLENDOR


Arizona has the Painted Desert
The Grand Canyon is there as well
Montana and Wyoming house Yellowstone
With beauty that weaves a spell

Wyoming hosts the Grand Tetons
Montana...

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Fire in the Mountains

October’s crisp clean air is blowing
and as we speak we can see our breath, 
a hot coal falls from Heaven’s altar
and sparks...

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The Gaspe Peninsula dancing to music only she can hear,
            She starts in the...

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See the mountains all afire
Flaming Appalachians 
‘Neath the pastel of October sun
Treetops all alight

Waves of carmine flame
Swaying in soft dance steps
Amidst saffron highlights
Muted in glowing...

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[the spirit of this was written after hearing KISS', "I was made for loving you"]

I keep hearing that aliens
Have thought-interfacing technology
And if I put forth...

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Lipstick art on my window;
a hole in my screen
in the shape of a heart,
left for me.

Found some footprints 
in the snow,
followed them
till they met the...

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Once there was a country boy called Chester,
     he came from the rural Appalachians;
got himself a farming job not far from...

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