Best Nebraska Poems

My love is light (a fairy kiss?)          
               Like the pressure of sunbeams on your cheek, 
     ...

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The Union Pacific steamer billowed clouds of smoke as down the rails it raced!
Young soldiers aboard the crowded train contemplated the dire fates they faced.
Melancholy thoughts of hearth and home this Christmas Day were hard to bear.
The mournful wail of the engine's whistle added to...

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(Re tiny box-like homes lining the west side of
South Bundy Drive, north of Nebraska Street, in West LA)

The soiled feeling comes not
From the indignant paradise
Scurrying past their frontal lobes 
It arrived in silence
Borne of being first to the party
And the ensuing, deafening wars
With the partycrashers
With...

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The girls in Nebraska can be quite different, 
It gradually Dawns on you that this is true	, 
Like catching greased pigs at their county fairs, 
Vast cultural differences come into view.

With mothers that have unique info they Share On, 
The love traps like money, like...

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we will rock you poets
jet through here.stay a long while
love to hear your words...

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Amedee Forestier an artistic deception 				         
Illustrated London News’s scientifically creative fiction                         ...

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The Young Man of Nebraska

There was a young Man of Nebraska
Who rode an old Ass to Alaska
His quest was too bold
For he found it too cold

His Frozen Ass came back to Nebraska









Edited for Viv's Traditional Limerick contest 9.4.18...

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Nebraska 

Nightfall littered with confetti stars, glitter spilled down from the Heaven’s above
Echoes roaring in with the wind, wailing across the great open plains
Bountiful soil, producing our grains, praying for rain
Raging rivers weaving throughout our land, fishing on the bank, floating on a tube, summer...

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Where the Good Life is
Nebraska, old red and white
Tried and true, country living....

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Nebraska straw was irritated to be woven into a hat
I am as plain as a calf, lion, hoot owl, corncob and bat.
you are a beginning, her grandma told her; do not give up.
especially if you are adopted by the lovely miss buttercup.

Buttercup was a fashion...

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AKSARBEN NEBRASKA

There once was a lady named Aksarben;
To a lot of her friends she's a has-been;
Closet wardrobes onlyred
Everything she owns "Huskers"
Reign Lady Red Aksarben"GO BIG RED"

7/16/19

State Limerick Poetry Contest
Limerick poetry form only
Sponsored by: Kevin Shaw...

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Native, neat noble Nebraska Cottonwood tattered, talented Trees 

Tall, so tall those sturdy Trees 
Nostalgic, gnarly Nebraska Cottonwood teary,
Those terrific Trees 
Our talented truthful trees

7/9/20
written words by James Edward Lee Sr. 2020 ©...

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A coworker and I stand
along a lone Nebraska highway
far from home.

I stand on one end
of a work zone-
a co-worker stands
on the other

communication by walkie talkie
to direct traffic 
as it comes and goes.

A road that’s broken
must be made whole
as life bubbles forth
from underground streams
in an unfamiliar...

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cicada magic
happy chirping on cornstalks
july orchestra...

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The "poem length police have nabbed me again - so I had to put my new piece
"Sunny" 
in the story story section.

Here's the URL:
https://www.poetrysoup.com/short_stories/sunny_9449...

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