Best Missouri River Poems
Below are the all-time best Missouri River poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of missouri river poems written by PoetrySoup members
My ValleyMy Valley
Tucked away in the north-central part of the state, about ten miles or so from where the clear and slow-moving water of the Grand...
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missouri river, poetry,
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Haibun
The Indigenous - the True American
Apache, the Ndee, "the people" of Arizona and other States
Blackfoot, the Siksika, whose painted red faces we can relate
Cheyenne, the Tsitsistas, meaning relatives of the...
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missouri river, joy,
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Abecedarian
SacagaweaBorn the daughter of a Lemhi Shoshone chief
she was captured by the Hidatsa in her teens.
And sold to the Mandan Missouri River tribe
where she...
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Categories:
missouri river, adventure, celebrity, history, imagery,
Form:
Blank verse
Growing Up, La - Part 2- - Chapter 2: Adult Responsibility (With Some Breaks) - -
By ten years old, no weekends off,
Or Saturday cartoons,...
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Categories:
missouri river, life, , cute,
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Rhyme
AbcApache, the Ndee, "the people" of Arizona and other States
Blackfoot, the Siksika, whose painted red faces we can relate
Cheyenne, the Tsitsistas, meaning relatives of the...
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missouri river, native american,
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ABC
Soul Stance River - 22The Great Falls of the northern Plains is actually a chain of five seperate waterfalls
varying in height and majesty extending over 12 miles,
they also confirm...
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missouri river, adventure,
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Epic
Relationship Rock Part TwoIt seems the ring so sparkly, caught the eye
of some observer, stopping in to talk
the time I took to pray, no more a balk
about God's...
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missouri river, love, love hurts, poetry,
Form:
Monorhyme
A Matched PairI frown into the mirror.
What happened?
Yesterday, we were newlyweds.”
"Fifty years ago," he says.
“You lost half a century.”
There's my husband, slouching
in the recliner, thinning...
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Categories:
missouri river, humor, marriage, nostalgia,
Form:
Free verse
Here All History ShadesMy history beckons like the Prairies
Dry towns. Cute and fierce,
Fearless and enslavement,
As the likeness on the Platte,
The Powder, the Niobrara,
the Tongue, the Snake,
The Yellowstone,...
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Categories:
missouri river, grief, growing up, hate,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
WanderlustSometimes you need to wander
Without a cause
Without purpose
Without a means
Without a reason for knowing why
Sometimes you need to wander
With lust
With purposeful lust
With a need to...
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Categories:
missouri river, adventure, birth, fear, home,
Form:
Free verse
Categories:
missouri river, adventure, allusion, metaphor, myth,
Form:
Narrative
Gateway TownGateway town, Mississippi and Missouri river flooding confluence,
with its celebration of manifest destiny, its looming, iconic archway.
Stainless westward marker, its culture flowed southward for influence
within...
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missouri river, allusion, city, class, longing,
Form:
Rhyme
Long Fork Side TwoSantee Sioux now all stuck ~ Casino, road
under water !~ Missouri River, talkin' big
it needed water, the River valley dried up
Governor's howling, blaming Corps!
Our nation...
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Categories:
missouri river, adventure, history,
Form:
Ballad
Diamonds of My Mind-The Diamonds of My Mind-
Even if you call my name
this is not me you see
looking back.
I see the reflection of the...
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Categories:
missouri river, age,
Form:
Free verse
Dignity: of Earth and SkyI love art and I love history….and I love how each one is transcended
when, to my joy and utter delight, the two of them are...
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Categories:
missouri river, inspiration,
Form:
Rhyme