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Buttes Poems - Poems about Buttes

Josh Moore Montana
...Cheap ale pools in a Styrofoam cup. She’s barefoot in gravel, anklet flashing beneath the floodlamps. Pickup window ajar, radio blaring “Friends in Low Places.” Her jeans slung low, hips ma......

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Categories: buttes, adventure, africa, gothic,
Form: Cowboy Poetry
Cliff Notes
...The mountains of the mind are not high, peaks that raise no taller than the spike of a moment, and yet, to climb them can be treacherous, thoughts can be avalanches. Better to just watch......

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Categories: buttes, poetry,
Form: Free verse



Gandorlendeium
...Aqueous humor: she said of the buddahs hands that were placed upon the table. Macula, and marvelous! A specticail appealing to the eyes. Yards and Yards of lemongrass, and beautiful bounties of Bu......

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Categories: buttes, engagement, environment, farm, music,
Form: Ballade
Premium Member Most Beautiful Christmas Poem
...Most Beautiful Christmas Poem 11/25/22 Based on the Messianic Prophecies ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Christmas Rose The Christmas Rose bursts into bloom As echoes of midni......

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Categories: buttes, baby, christmas, jesus, rose,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Last Stroke of Midnight
...Last Stroke of Midnight The last stroke of midnight chimes – All plans stand at attention, start here, Perfect prophecy inhales the first breath Of winnowing starlight foretold As you draw u......

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Categories: buttes, night,
Form: Free verse



Amarillo
...At six o’clock the road turned bare as we rode through Tennessee. From Nashville to Memphis is a long, dark stretch of gray and brown trees and fields where no one ever walks or works. I’ve ofte......

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Categories: buttes, journey,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Token Steps
...Image of South Africa Cape Town Table provided by Pixabay Token Steps Ruling winds the austral buttes naked slopes ... as vortex smoky rise aloft Zulu's kraal ......

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Categories: buttes, africa, hope, peace, tribute,
Form: Kwansaba
Premium Member Another Day's Rhyme
...Another Day’s Rhyme I’ve seen majestic mountains on a celestial plain, beautiful valleys with waving fields of grain. I have marked buttes of red rock scraping the clear blue sky, a view of the......

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Categories: buttes, nature,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Ridden Hard, Put Up Wet
...Ridden Hard, Put Up Wet Worn down landscape Ridden hard and put up wet over eons of time. Buttes interspersed with ravines and wadis, Vast irregular symmetry. Clumps of purple blue green s......

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Categories: buttes, summer,
Form: Free verse
Siege At Baker Ranch, Part I
...I. Myron Baker wasn’t much of a man for gunplay, whiskey, or ladies of the night. He'd made his move out the western way for space to live his life just as he liked. He’d gotten himself a good......

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Categories: buttes, america, conflict, courage, hero,
Form: Cowboy Poetry
Tallgrass Ocean
...Across the prairie, driving fast, a gust of wind, I cannot pass, I’m transfixed by rippling grass, stop the car in this empty space, the blades all move in staggered waves. Cattle graze nearby......

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Categories: buttes, america, appreciation, beauty, earth,
Form: Rhyme
The Shape-Shifting Cowboy, Part I
...Jenna lived in rural Wyoming lands, where grass rolled over small ridges and buttes, a small town way out in the cow country, where the ranchers still throw lassos in loops. She was driving out......

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Categories: buttes, earth, freedom, journey, love,
Form: Cowboy Poetry
Amazing Views of Undulating Colorful Sandstone
...Amazing views of undulating colorful sandstone hill on the slopes of Coyote Buttes of United States' Arizona Nature's artist uses soft s......

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Categories: buttes, art, beauty, nature,
Form: Rhyme
Mountain Battle Scars
...war rages upon buttes nature's elements lash out against lofty peaks frigid winds and rain slowly carve out gaping wounds indiscernibly deeply scarred faces erosive testimony of b......

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Categories: buttes, nature,
Form: Haiku
Elephant Dreams
...Afternoon of elephants, scent of hibiscus within this fantasy spawned from television. They stand in their majesty meeting head to head, trunk caressing trunk. Sisters in a loving pose whil......

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Categories: buttes, animals
Form: Free verse

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