Best Hayloft Poems

The pig overheard the farmers conversation,
talking about their crops and needing weather salvation,
the farmers saying "it'll probably rain when pigs fly!,"
to help out the pig...

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Embers trailing an afterglow of dawn,
welcoming harmony lingers aloft,
as chess pleasures the first move of its pawn.

That will make Mary quite contrary yawn,
passed Mary was...

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My Friend Jim Bean

The highway signs go by so fast.
The whole damn night had been a blast.
There's a red light chasing behind me
and wouldn't you...

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Security at the Hen House

All around the peaceful barn yard				 	
  everyone’s  sleeping while I’m on graveyard		 			
    watching for...

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The entire time we spent
Searching through ruins and sands
For a reason or just
An answer that would
Allow us to sleep
But the rain
Didn't come to save us...

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CAREFREE AND SIMPLE

my daily fancy
i’d love to live on a farm
in hilly country
mountain peaks in the distance
the animals all carefree

then a further thought
we’d have a...

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Fimbul Frost 
It was cold in the valley domestic animals were snug in barns even hardy sheep 
and goats came indoors. Clear sky and freezing,...

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One of the joys of summer are lightning bugs.Do you remember, as a child, chasing them on a balmy evening? They are so elusive. When...

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Tanka 
Milk maids and romance 
In the hay of romp and love 
Mules ate the fodder 
Bare floorboards on the hayloft 
But fragrance of love...

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My master's shaft of light is forbidding;
Still, I have enough sense left to keep hidden.

If he cannot find me, he will not hurt me;
my silence,...

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Screaming Guillotines

I.

I sit on the wide veranda of this house called America,
And I can see the Beast Boys coming our jungled way,
Coming like wild torrents...

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A Sudden Second sight 

It was long ago before horses became a status symbol
 and ponies were rich children´s toy that Egon fell to 
earth,...

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...They said the diggings had all been tapped out,
ain’t no way a man could strike it rich now,
but there was work for men, hearty and...

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Washing the sleep off my face, at me the sun smiled; 
Telling me it’s a brand new day
A bright young day, a foot to start...

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I’d plow four rocky acres, maybe even five,
For a taste of the honey from my Honey’s hive.
No one spices the clover like my lover does
When...

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