Blackland Prairie
...BLACKLAND PRAIRIE
From Red River down to San Antone,
The Blackland Prairie’s all but gone—
Scoured clean by progress, tilled and torn,
By “civilized” greed, excess born,
A plundered la...
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Categories:
bluestem, earth, nature,
Form: Elegiac Lyric
My Valley
...My 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 River mixes with the quickly rolling mud of the Missouri...
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Categories:
bluestem, poetry,
Form: Haibun
Antebellum Elegy
...Prologue
Abandoned and in disrepair the mansion
Is dark now; a story behind every stanchion.
An unwitting monument to a way of life,
Since foreclosed through bloody civil strife.
Antebellu...
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Categories:
bluestem, history, native american,
Form: Elegy
A Prairie In the Wind
...A Prairie In The Wind
Here in April,
the prairie wind at my back
while white clouds mottle scarce
new grass, I hold in my hand
what has stayed in the jacket for all
the long months since Nove...
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Categories:
bluestem, anxiety, art, autumn,
Form: Free verse
My Affair With a Frost Flower State of Affairs
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There’s a beguiling danger in beauty…
seduced as I was by the fickle fingers of fate musingly stroking my hair,
I envisaged
this lusciously lavish landscape
of sun-raptured heavenly...
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Categories:
bluestem, betrayal, dark, emotions, heartbreak,
Form: Free verse
Blue Grama Grass
...How to break an addiction. Decide to live.
What can I learn from my pain. Danger.
And friends are merely friendly, live on independent
of your injury. You will not be missed in church on Sunday.
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Categories:
bluestem, addiction, blue, body, friend,
Form: Verse
Deficiency
...What else do we have
but what we can hold
in our own two hands?
Reticent whispers of honey
sprinkle on my chest
and I find that soughs
deplete the sweetness
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Categories:
bluestem, life, nature, peace
Form: I do not know?
Brownie's Calf
...On those endless rides of childhood
Down trails of dark and light,
There are those that you remember
And those that haunt your night.
The green fresh days of farm and ranch
When you raised you...
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Categories:
bluestem, animals, cowboy-western, introspection, life,
Form: Cowboy Poetry
Armagh To Oklahoma - Song of My Soul
...Ireland,
ancient song of my soul,
a haunting melody
that strains against the wind
and leaves me searching
for my distant pasts.
Monasterevin, Armagh, Inish Mor…
I hear your voices.
The b...
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Categories:
bluestem, cowboy-western, history, inspirational, life,
Form: Verse
Armagh To Arizona - Song of My Soul
...Ireland,
ancient song of my soul,
a haunting melody
that strains against the wind
and leaves me searching
for my distant pasts.
Monasterevin, Armagh, Inish Mor…
I hear your voices.
The b...
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Categories:
bluestem, cowboy-western, inspirational, native american,
Form: Verse