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Best Homestead Poems

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Atacama / English Version
Atacama, Eden of winds,
flower of abandoned rocks and of sapleter,
homestead of flamingoes and geysers,
and above all ,
below an azure sky,
mountains are carrying on their tops...

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Categories: homestead, historywater, history, water,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Many, Many Long Years Ago
Going home after forty years
I came back to conquer my fears
Brush with the law forced me to go
Many, many long years ago.

The old homestead no...

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Categories: homestead, friend, home, memory, river,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Cowboys In the Badlands
Rather lost, they stare over the divide,
how best to circumnavigate this obstacle?
They can see a path gently sloping down
but it is far off to the...

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Categories: homestead, horse, life,
Form: Cowboy Poetry
Cheese Curds Make My Day
Cheese curds make my day.

My wife has a daily habit
Of caring for all my needs.
She keeps her eyes wide open
To see what she can see.

This...

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© Old Buck  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: homestead, appreciation, farm, food, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
Man's Greatest Enemy
Why, the greatest enemy of man is man
for man has subdued everything else
Fear not the tiger, fear the murderer's plan
Just hearken well to what history...

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Categories: homestead, conflict, corruption, society, war,
Form: Quatrain



Children of Entitlement
They won't let us have
the same things ...
things that once was given to them
They say we deserve it not,
because we're of the rejected seed ---
those...

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Categories: homestead, black african american, perspective,
Form: Narrative
Crazy Folk
It's never explained
why she and her son were spared
in the raid on their homestead
It drove her insane
and her boy became a mute
She sent him off...

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Categories: homestead, adventure, crazy, native american,
Form: Choka
The Ol' Barn
There was a barn once painted red
that stood on grandpa's old homestead.
T'was built so very long ago -
a sorry sight. I told him so.

I often,...

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Categories: homestead, character, freedom, political, remember,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Windmill
It was once the pride of a prairie farmer not too many years ago.
Now, long abandoned it stands forlorn on a wind-blown plateau.
Its rusting blades...

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Categories: homestead, nostalgia, water, water,
Form: Rhyme
Note For the Faint Hearted
When she was born she had no father,
spent nights in the streets to feed her mother,
who was diagnose with a disease cancer,
she strolled the streets...

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Categories: homestead, funeral, recovery from..., house,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member China Tour Thoughts 3
China Tour Diary Moment #3
SHANGRI-LA, TIBET
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Paradise on earth: Himalayan range;
A phenomenon carved by elements;
Here magic gives birth to ways that seem strange;
A place where lessons...

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Categories: homestead, devotion,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Wishing Not To Recall
Revisiting our ancestral farmhouse
I feel this certain tinge of aloneness,
Which smudges the lively remembrances
About a big clan huddled together
Under narra trees, each Sunday…a frolic kindled
By...

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Categories: homestead, longing, remember,
Form: Free verse
A Darkened Night
A darkened night 
Tonight she's out
She stares at darkened waters 
Her gaze never wanders
She stares at her soul
Her mind, her heart 
Oh how they seems...

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Categories: homestead, confusion, courage, goodbye,
Form: I do not know?
Children of An Angry Father
When primeval men were made,
Someone said they were perfect,
But I ask them how plausibly so
Can perfection beget imperfection?
They laughed and I laughed in return.
Some others...

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Categories: homestead, anger, children, courage, father,
Form: I do not know?
All Alone
He sat in his recliner in the balcony, 
the evening soft breeze so cool, tender
with his eyes closed as if in a trance;
The light breeze...

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Categories: homestead, grief, loneliness,
Form: Free verse

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