Best Paul Bunyan Poems


Premium Member Heartbeats
...Thump, thump...thump, thump
Your heart beats with internal impediment
Making each breath a struggle.
I see your pain,  I feel your anguish,
I dearly love your determination to endure.

I can on......

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Categories: paul bunyan, angst, care, devotion, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Dedication To He That This Old Poet Truly Admires
...A Dedication To He That This Old Poet Truly Admires

Hardened was his sad heart when a mere lad-
 Never a kind word, all seemed very bad-
Born a true and strong athlete to behold
 Into slavery a......

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Categories: paul bunyan, appreciation, best friend, dedication,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Paul Bunyan and Babe
...Hardly a man is now alive
Who remembers Minnesota
Before Paul Bunyan flattened it
To resemble North Dakota.

Paul's blue ox Babe was equal to
Most anything he'd ask.
A job that takes machines ......

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Categories: paul bunyan, adventure
Form: Narrative

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Premium Member Life Is Short
...My  mountain man was born in June.
He could do everything, even lasso the moon.
No problem was too big for him to undertake,
Even if it was a fixture that he had to make.

He was like Paul Bunya......

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Categories: paul bunyan, break up, divorce, forgiveness,
Form: Rhyme
Came Up From Nothin
...9/9/17


Don't f*****
Push my buttons

Really, really buzzin
Often high and drunken
Just trying to function
Stand in the way, and your ship will be sunken

No time for interruptions
If it......

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Categories: paul bunyan, dark, how i feel,
Form: Rhyme
Poem Revised Memorial Day May 30th, 2022 At 1500 Hours
...Poem revised Memorial Day May 30th, 2022 at 1500 hours

Flagrante delict adulterous sordid behavior 
automatically linkedin with Lothario;
an unscrupulous seducer of women, 
based upon a charact......

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Categories: paul bunyan, absence, abuse, adventure, anger,
Form: Rhyme


The Contest
...There once was a mule named Samson
He was as strong as he could be
He won all the strong mule contests
In the entire state of Tennessee

That old mule could pull anything
He even pulled a house......

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© Larry Belt  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: paul bunyan, imaginationold, tree, old, tree,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Canoeing the Mississippi - Part 4
...Extra weight no longer a problem for shallow water, 
We bulked up for the next leg of our journey, 
Water containers, even some canned goods
An acceptable luxury in our seventeen foot canoe, 
A c......

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Categories: paul bunyan, boat, dream, journey, nature,
Form: Blank verse
Premium Member Pro Patria Mori
...Pro Patria Mori

Missouri volunteers bit bullets, watched
as Santa Ana's baggage washed
their brazen hair, hip deep
in the Rio Grande.
The ancient river moved across the land
Like slow drool d......

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Categories: paul bunyan, america, military, patriotic, soldier,
Form: Verse
Paul Bunyan's Secret
...Here's the story of Paul Bunyan
But I'm gonna tell it my way
Some people probably won't like it
But I guess that'll be okay

Paul Bunyan wasn't really a giant
But he did have an ox named babe
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© Larry Belt  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: paul bunyan, funny
Form: Rhyme
Homecoming
...©2010 (Jim Sularz) 

Was it by chance or pure circumstance,
that the path I took, led me far out West? 
An island hop, a drifting castaway,
with treasured moments, of bygone yesterdays.

Where......

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© Jim Sularz  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: paul bunyan, home, daffodils,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Tribute To Youth and the Days Imagination and Boyhood Dreams
...Tribute To Youth And The Days Imagination and Boyhood Dreams,
Poem One- Inspired by my own youth, also by Mark Twain's,
books, "Tom Sawyer" and his, " Adventures of Huckleberry Finn "...

To thee......

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Categories: paul bunyan, appreciation, boy, childhood, growing
Form: Rhyme
Tonight I Met Memory's Ghost
...Suns fading across this sky while the clouds weep to noone passin by,
 
And still I think of the days we made out of dignity, grace, and pain,

 and it never seems to speak the same.

 So tell ......

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Categories: paul bunyan, absence, break up, emotions,
Form:
Premium Member Life In a Tent - Out of a Suitcase
...I have tasted new lands as I’ve traveled this Earth,
would leave prejudice (often) with dust shoes pick up.
No, not loam like the Dust Bowl knew (God knows our shame),
the clear-cutting of forests......

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Categories: paul bunyan, faith, science,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Where Have All the Women Gone
...

It's wonderful~how some women's 
shoes are delightful and feminine.
Yet women dress more and more
like men each day.
It's very sad in the USA, to watch
femininity quickly pass way.
......

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Categories: paul bunyan, america, clothes, crazy, fashion,
Form: Free verse
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