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Catskills Poems - Poems about Catskills

Premium Member Behind the Magnolia Curtain
...Behind the magnolia curtain, childhood ne’er knew. Drawn to Sleepy Hollow - over the river, really mountains; and the thruway, to Grandma’s we go. Magnificent magnolias, bountiful with ......

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Categories: catskills, people, tree,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Hudson River Revival
... "Lake Tear in the Clouds" was an indescribably pretty scene Lewis Pugh hiked in the rain; clouds lifted, he felt serene. He dove in, swam through hemlock, maple, ash and birch An adventure start......

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Categories: catskills, adventure, courage, motivation, nature,
Form: Lyric



Premium Member Twisted Fairytales
...Rumpel Still's kin are a strange lot With names not easily forgot But he was kept asleep By his cousin, the creep Moonshine Still was the guilty sot Rumpel had walked deep in the wood Where M......

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Categories: catskills, humor,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Autumnal New York
...Shimmering in a chilly mist, skyscrapers overlooking NYC. August left into September's cooler mornings, schoolchildren dressed in plaid and Hush Puppies. In Central Park the leaves are a green-......

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Categories: catskills, 7th grade, 8th grade,
Form: Free verse
Watching Upcoming Toilet Bowl Lvii Highlight of February 12th, 2023
...Watching upcoming toilet bowl lvii highlight of February 12th, 2023 Above title attests how mine mundane mein kampf insync as a veritable clogged drain oh: flush with adventure overflowing exc......

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Categories: catskills, 12th grade, abuse, adventure,
Form: Rhyme



The Legend of Big Indian, Part I
...Hear this recitation the Lenape nation bore a child of extreme size, in the Onteoras, the Catskills of yore now, this man would live out his whole life. Winisook was his name, and he gained ......

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Categories: catskills, america, history, loss, lost
Form: Narrative
Premium Member I Scream At the Bear
...My family did not visit New York City but instead played in the Catskills. I SCREAM AT THE BEAR I scream, at the bear signage, for ice cream. The tea cups......

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Categories: catskills, fun,
Form: Free verse
Watching Upcoming Toilet Bowl Lvi Highlight of February 13th, 2022
...Watching upcoming toilet bowl lvi highlight of February 13th, 2022 Above title attests how mine mundane mein kampf insync as a veritable clogged drain oh: flush with adventure overflowing excrem......

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Categories: catskills, adventure, cool, devotion, farewell,
Form: Rhyme
Ghosts of the Catskills
...I stand inside a ballroom that stretches long before me, it is a sitting room right now, formal chairs and setees, tall windows stretch ceiling to floor, twice as tall as a man, with velvet drapes......

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Categories: catskills, age, appreciation, beauty, history,
Form: Rhyme
Still Virtual
...I’ll agree to a virtual visit With the people I can’t see for real. The hugs and the closeness are missing But it does have a certain appeal. I’ll accept taking virtual classes. There’s a lot ......

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Categories: catskills, how i feel,
Form: Rhyme
Meditation
...Up in the mountains Out in the woods Things look better Air feels good Meet in the kitchen, Whenever we can Eggs in a cast-iron frying pan Yes, and sometimes life goes faster than we’d l......

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Categories: catskills, appreciation, beauty, love, peace,
Form: Pastoral
Premium Member Letter To a Soldier - a Trilogy
...LETTER TO A SOLDIER A Trilogy I. SONGS OF LOVE Love walked with me In the crisp fall air In a shower of gold and red. Love showed me the print Of a doe’s foot And where she made her be......

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Categories: catskills, absence, america, death, emotions,
Form: Ballad
Strolling Through the Past
...It’s now a bird sanctuary, and has been for some decades now, the trail wanders through the forest, past the rock walls of an old house. The trail itself was once a road, I can tell by the two......

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Categories: catskills, absence, appreciation, farm, history,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Look Out Below
...The sign he reads out loud, “There’s holes ahead.” The Rip Van Winkle Bridge quite disturbs me. A story book that’s come to life — with head To lose. My dad inches along bravely. The c......

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Categories: catskills, angst, memory, metaphor, water,
Form: Sonnet
Pioneers Without Frontiers
...When I was a kid on the bus, I looked at all that surrounded us, out the window I always gazed seeing old fields, half-trees, half-hay, beyond them rose a forest wall, maples and pines, stately ......

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Categories: catskills, childhood, how i feel,
Form: Narrative

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