Best Vermont Poems

Vermont Limerick

There was a tall man from Vermont
Who always was out on the hunt.
But when he got snared
And layed in the lair
There was no more packing his trunk....

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At 40 below zero in the Vermont country side, 
the frost can be actually seen in the air
as sparkling frost dust seemingly defying gravity.
The skin showing between your mittens and sleeves
will be frost bitten in a matter of minutes if not covered.
 Gloves just don’t...

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Crispy Macintosh Apples
Red with Sunset hue
Peeled and sliced on the bias
Soaked in apple dew ;
Maple syrup, Too
Oven Baked
Sniff!

Inspired By "Barbara Gorelick's Contest :
      " Harvest Foods Epulaeryu "...

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Feeling the August sun
dry the pond's cool water
off of my back and shoulders.
Noticing my chin is thick
with salt and pepper stubble.
Wearing the same yellow t-shirt
for three days
without realizing.
Cooking up green bean soup
on a fire that I started.
Reading about Russian Czars
from a used paperback
I bought at...

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There's a chill in the mornin' air as autumn in Vermont unfolds.
Splendor is revealed as trees assume their cloaks of reds and golds!
Fodder shocks gleam in the risin' sun and 'punkins' sport a tinge of rime.
Crimson and yellow apples are ready for pickin' havin' reached...

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The verdant leaves
of the cherry trees
rustle as a wagon
loaded with corn
rides deeper into the wide ruts
of a rustic road,
hungry ruminants wallow
by a limpid lake;
cheerful kids wave
and wagtails warble
at my unexpected arrival...
suddenly my Dalmatian barks. 

O jovial Autumn
incite my surprise,
and renew my decadent mood!
The grapevines rest
while...

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people largely kept
the walk to the store,small,spruce
the gentle youth know...

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Yellows, reds, oranges, the slow sublime death the leaves last breath before turning brown 
and crumbling to the ground. The panorama of majestic mountains, the only green to be seen 
are the ever strong pine trees. To travel along a lazy stream, the nip of...

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The great northeast, Vermont: I-89 and I-91, the crossing roads.
         We have Deer crossing signs everywhere.
         We also have Moose, we also have Bear :
    ...

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From Africa to America spanning the world, quite possibly
My DNA struggled to survive to make me,
My existence is a testament to survival fitness,
My life is to nurture the future and bear witness, the past,
My name is the name to property they gave,
My heritage my lineage...

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Put into words the world I want before me,
Call it praying, wishing, dreaming,
I have the power to speak life into the world,
I have power to speak death as well,
I choose life, I choose life....

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You entered this world right on time,
Just what we needed and we did not know it.
You were feisty, and wonderful, and funny.
Many days you tested me,
You challenged my resolve,
You lit up more rooms than you darkened,
The only rooms you darkened where the ones where you...

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We hold these truths to be self evident that all humans are not created equal,
Some have been created with more 
while some have been created with less
Some are rewarded in life while some are barred from success,
We hold these truths to be self evident that...

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An apple bitten,
Exiled from the garden of love,
Innocently wise....

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Bones unearthed so roads may go places
Our people were not permitted to know,
Rise up, open up, open up,
The medicine is in the land,
Is in the mangoes,
Is in the yams,
The ancestors words are on the wind,
The shamanic gifts are in my bones,
Our inheritance, our sense, our...

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