Best Idaho Poems

Slate sky 
streaked with a painter's acid dream
caresses the mountains, bleeding on their peaks.
Cloud curtains
lower, then rise, on an ever-changing
 psychedelic happening, 
but 
fracturing fingers 
of darkness pierce the canvas,
draining the colors,
drawing the curtains closed.

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My faithful friend from Boise, Idaho
Another so true, where to find one, I dunno
He talks a strange lingo
I think hard and then bingo
The “words” he creates make sense, well sorto...

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Yellow pines swaying at base camp,
early October morn greets the avid hunters
with its autumnal briskness, waking any
sleepyheads who are stirring under covers,
generators humming away at varying speeds,
smell of frying bacon and sizzling eggs,
add to the aroma of the great outdoors. 

Pickup trucks filled with camo-clothed...

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Wild tree...long dry rope
Glassy Ice Creek streaming fast
Friends across it laugh~...

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Folded mountains settle into the Snake River plains.
Where golden fields flow with rows of tall grains.
His rising peaks sprout juniper, cedar, aspen, and pine.
Whose wild beauty will not be confined.

Sunflowers shriek in the thin mountain air.
Alongside roaming wolves and foraging bears.
Cattle graze grasses on peaks...

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videllia onions
and idaho potato's
makes a good beef stew...

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A crowded bookstore cafe,
during a breezy October afternoon,
you inspired a thousand journeys.
A voice apart, an intimate tune.

Skin as fair as a wandering snowflake,
crystalline eyes of brilliant blue,
hands, warm like embers,
your thundering heart I knew beat true.

Turbulent trials overcome with strength
proudly bearing misery without shame.
Gracefully, you...

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There was a man from Idaho
Ate half a cow in one go
His tummy was loaded
He nearly exploded
Now he is Santa hohoho...

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Pine filtered air roams down hillsides.
Space in the western Rockies stretches comprehension.
Farms and towns in the valleys have room to spare.
Polite Mormons and crude drunks harmonize.

Rewards wait for the adventurer.
Cutthroat trout sip insects from stream tops.
Wandering moose snack on willows.
I have found a permanent paradise.

Let...

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There she is Home sweet Home
A place with a look of beauty of Rome

I lustrous gardens and basking light
Town houses shimmer even at night

No rough strangers here at all
Any array of leaves when it is fall

The children play in snow sometimes
Because they live in nursery...

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If you ask just about anyone in the know,
they will tell you the best potatoes come from Idaho.
That is a state located in the Pacific Northwest.
Their underground tubers are undoubtedly the best.
Whether you bake them, boil them, or fry,
they have that special flavor nobody can...

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A crowded bookstore cafe,
during a breezy October afternoon,
you inspired a thousand journeys.
A voice apart, an intimate tune.

Skin as fair as a wandering snowflake,
crystalline eyes of brilliant blue,
hands, warm like embers,
Your thundering heart I knew beat true.

Turbulent trials overcome with strength
proudly bearing misery without shame.
Gracefully, you...

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sweet deer feeding
black bears thieving
blue sky stooping
   to bless the forest

canyons yawning
salmon spawning
pine trees reaching
   to caress the clouds

wolf packs singing
eagles winging
Clasping talons
   in mating dance

Wheat fields stretching


snowy hills
cold mountain streams
   spawning fishermen

serpentine Snake
proves its name
winding, turning
through...

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Not Iowa---Idaho
Not Ohio---I-DA-HO
     That's a very old joke, you know, 
     and it's still not funny.

No, I hate skiing
And mountain biking
No, not corn. Potatoes
And Mormons

Yes, it really IS a state. Look it up.
What's there?
Endless desert
What's there?
Nothing
Nothing but...

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Coeur d'Alene, Heart of the Awl,
     gem of the north,
you tamed my hatred of this desert state
and gave me sunlight sparkling on
blue lakes under scented pines....

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