Best Idaho Poems
Idaho SunsetSlate 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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Categories:
idaho, art, beauty, imagery, sky,
Form:
Free verse
Boise IdahoMy 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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Categories:
idaho, friendship,
Form:
Limerick
Elk Hunting Above Hornet Creek, IdahoYellow 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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Categories:
idaho, nostalgia,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Idaho Summer ~ HaikuWild tree...long dry rope
Glassy Ice Creek streaming fast
Friends across it laugh~...
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Categories:
idaho, adventure, happiness, imagination, life,
Form:
Haiku
Idaho EssenceFolded 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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Categories:
idaho, places
Form:
Rhyme
Categories:
idaho, art,
Form:
Haiku
Idaho WomanA 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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Categories:
idaho, girlfriend-boyfriend, hope, love,
Form:
Rhyme
Man From IdahoThere 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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Categories:
idaho, christmas,
Form:
Limerick
I Guess I Would Rather Be In IdahoPine 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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Categories:
idaho, adventure, happiness, introspection, ,
Form:
Free verse
IdahoThere 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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Categories:
idaho, imagination, life, nature,
Form:
Idaho Potatoes
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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Categories:
idaho, appreciation, farm, food, travel,
Form:
Rhyme
Idaho WomanA 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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Categories:
idaho, love,
Form:
Rhyme
Idaho Foundsweet 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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Categories:
idaho, beautiful, childhood, nature, perspective,
Form:
Free verse
I-Do-WaNot 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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Categories:
idaho, bereavement, sad, word play,
Form:
Verse
Randomling 35: Coeur D'AleneCoeur 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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Categories:
idaho, beautiful, beauty, nature,
Form:
Free verse