Best Maters Poems

I say taters instead of potatoes
I say maters instead of tomatoes
My tongue is full of hillbilly idioms
I often say yeah when some would say yes
Sometimes...

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You are the first thought
I have in the morning.
my beautiful morning dove.
The sunshine through my window
my one and only love

You remind me of the birds...

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WHO AM I

Who am i, I am me
I can be whomever I want to be
A doctor, a lawyer, a actress, a teacher
I can be either...

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We love our silly Grazillas,
Who eat chocolate ice cream because they don't like vanilla.
They prefer lumpy pillas,
As they nap under the willas.
They eat salt by...

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I've lived in Idaho before they turned our state sideways to resemble a gun
Seen lively conversation stop midsentence aftering catching a glimpse   ...

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ETERNAL FAN

Football’s in the
air
All the colleges
prepare
Students don colors
Excitement
everywhere
It seems like just
yesterday

At the stadium
Alma maters by the
bands
Cheerleaders
tumbling
A vendor throwing
peanuts
To customers in the
stands

And here comes the
team
Pride of...

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Well perhaps I should talk about foreclosure,
Let’s see, at first as it begins to happen
 it feels like your life is being flattened
By a big...

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Dear Ma and Pa:  I'm now a proud United States Marine!
I've found it purty easy to slip into their tough routine.
Some of them city...

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I've traveled from the farm in Indiana, the place of my humble birth,
To places I never dreamed of seeing all around this earth!
On ships, trains...

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Snapping beans, the summer pastime
Filling Mason jars
With cornfield or half runners
Filling a crock with layers
Of beans and corn, canning salt
For pickled beans and corn
That would...

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Every day we woke up hungry.
We ate our little bowls of freedom 
At the breakfast table.
Then Momma washed the breakfast dishes.

In the summer,
Momma grew maters...

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Hate 
just, as usual, a preposterous excuse 
an excuse it is
it's one indeed..
one you pathetic human use to escape
for an escape is all that maters...

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What can you boil, mash and stick in a stew,
Share yours with me, I'll share mine with you.
What comes in lovely golden chips,
You can bake...

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S--- Spiritually God’s day of rest. A gift to man.
A--- Always on this day, acknowledge a spiritual hand.
T--- Truly honor the Father, His blessings His...

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I think what I think, and to that, I’m true
Stick to what I believe, that’s what I do

Hard to turn around, once it’s in my...

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