Best Ohio Poems

From the Ohio River to the Great Lake Erie.
If they come from Cleveland, or south in Cincinnati,
these talented persons’ works are the ones we should see.
They have written some of this site’s greatest poetry.
They may live in the cities of Canton or Akron;
or perhaps in...

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My boat rocks gently under a reddening sun,
is it wrong to wish for a Viking burial,
to ponder a last journey West
into the dying light?

Strangers have always been my friends,
they intuit
the liquid and inflammable nature
of this thing we do.

I could rest my soul here in this...

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Green Town, Ohio 
where memories congregate, 
granddads as time machines, 
grandmas... magicians. 

Two children leaping 
in Superman sneakers 
as if they are flying, 
and smelling the fresh cut grass. 

Sparklers and firecrackers 
sizzle for dominance, 
lighting their path through 
the warm summer night. 

Holding hands,...

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We form a queue around a small
million-year-old blossom,
are captivated
by dripping peaks
of creeping continuum.
Rainbow striations
in bezels of stillness,
then the power fails.

A pitch black of nothing
quashes carriage and mien.
Minds shrink like dark stars,
then the yellow flicker
of a generator hums us back.

Nervous grins, holiday shorts,
floppy hats.


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Black snow on pavement
Dog paws sopping and muddy
The first signs of spring...

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proud of their district
the voting lines never crossed
red,white and blue state...

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...inspired by 'Dandelion Wine' 
   by Ray Bradbury


Green Town, Ohio,
where memories congregate,
sneakers and time machines, 
grandmas and goodies;
leaping tall buildings 
and smelling the fresh cut grass,
junebugs and crickets compete
as the best; sparklers and firecrackers 
fizzle for dominance,
lighting our path through
the warm summer nights;...

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...inspired by 'Dandelion Wine' 
   by Ray Bradbury



Green Town, Ohio,
where memories congregate,
sneakers and time machines, 
grandmas and cookies;
leaping tall buildings 
and smelling the fresh cut grass,
junebugs and crickets compete
as the best; sparklers and firecrackers 
fizzle for dominance,
lighting our path through
the warm summer nights;...

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Ever heard of the beautiful Ohio?
The writer in me wants you to know -
River life has its anecdotes
My granny, a German immigrant,
mastered that river in dinghy boats
to attend a Lutheran church.
I've crossed its waves on a raft that floats. 

The writer in me wants you...

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White icing spread atop cut-out trees,
Shrubs melt,
expose green cutout cookie snowflakes,
Blue skies shove away clouds,
reveal warm glossy blanketed fields,
Sunshine toasts the breeze a golden crisp.
Gazing out the picture window,
I watch as God bakes another day of Ohio January....

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Green Town, Ohio 
where memories congregate, 
granddads as time machines, 
grandmas... magicians. 

Two of them leaping 
in Superman sneakers 
as if they are flying, 
smelling the fresh cut grass. 

Sparklers and firecrackers 
sizzle for dominance, 
lighting their path through 
the warm summer night. 

Holding hands,...

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newport, ohio
two bars for the thirsty
one catholic church 
for the sinners to be forgiven
one gas station
so us country folk
don't run out of gas
one big country concert
in july up the road
one 75 year old man
who runs  a quiet 
slaughter house
a quaint little town
on a busy...

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River Findings

The Ohio winds around hills
and streams down the hollows
passes steel mills, brick yards and scrap yards.
It carries tug boats, pushes barges, and hauls
black coal stripped from the mountainsides. 

The Ohio’s littered banks 
are home to train yards 
filled with graffiti-covered box cars
rusting relics of...

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