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Farmstead Poems - Poems about Farmstead

Premium MemberVictorian Christmas Eve

...There is happy ado on the old farmstead as Yuletide draws nigh!
Wondrous things to savor as gales blow and snow begins to fly!
The tempest rages for days - they will surely be snowbound,
But a bla...
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Categories: farmstead, christmas,
Form: Rhyme

A Lifetime

...A rotted old house deep in the South
Was where I learned to shut my mouth
And keep my stockings high and my hems low
And take care of babies and learn to sew

And the very first thing I stitched...
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Categories: farmstead, body, faith, farm, pain,
Form: Rhyme



Premium MemberTurkey Take Over

...The interlopers surrounded the old folk’s farmstead before dawn.
Farmer Jay wondered what planet they were now living on.
Their gravely gobbles were incessantly loud, it was a take over.
Farmer Ja...
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Categories: farmstead, animal,
Form: Rhyme

Wordsworth's Daffodils

...Far away over meadows, fields and hills
Or through oak woodland which is ever sweet;
Seeking out Wordsworth's golden daffodils.

Early morning, amid the dewy chills
Where a dawn kissed grassland...
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Categories: farmstead, daffodils, england, flower, imagery,
Form: Villanelle

A Woman of Her Times, Part I

...She was born as Holly Clarkson
in the year 1993,
and for most of her early days
she lived life uneventfully.

She grew up outside of London,
went to uni and married well,
had her first kid at ...
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Categories: farmstead, adventure, age, children, history,
Form: Epic



Premium MemberGirlhood Stages--Edited

...While sighs arose from dried marsh and clay, 
the girl in me embraced an amiable virtue
 born out of an affinity for our town’s revelries :
 Oh   those bouncy play with cousins
 when ...
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Categories: farmstead, girl, places, remember,
Form: Dramatic Verse

One Dream Pony

...The gravel driveway lies outside the barnyard,
a young rider on its back asks if this is the first ride,
and about the reins it bears. Just ahead lies a field
lined by trees, and beyond, a highway...
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Categories: farmstead, 5th grade, allegory, farm,
Form: Verse

What Happened

...What happened
 

The woman from the Philippines
She and her husband a European man of middle years
Had a clearing in the jungle.
Built their own bamboo cabin raised pigs and chicken
Also, vege...
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Categories: farmstead, abuse, best friend, betrayal,
Form: Blank verse

Fake Festering Marital Spite Only Backfired

...“FAKE” Festering Marital Spite Only Backfired...

More than a bajillion painful eons
after pledging troth
with thee missus,
whom I definitely blindly wed
comprised great ta ra ra boom
de ay ye...
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Categories: farmstead, adventure, care, destiny, emotions,
Form: Free verse

Three Ice-Dragons of Zaath Are Faring South

...Three Ice-Dragons of Zaath, are faring South,
They strip the landscape barren of all Love.
Each holds a lifeless Champion in its mouth,
Each imitates the wolf, and mocks the Dove…

Beware their ...
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Categories: farmstead, animal, courage, evil, fantasy,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberAncestral Farmstead

...I returned to our farmstead last autumn
on the driveway where I kicked marbles
and plucked brambles catching my gaze- 
Now overgrown at sixty-two
horse wagons filled the blank spaces
of ...
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Categories: farmstead, farm, loneliness,
Form: Free verse

Elixir Description

...Words flow like a babbling brook,
To my home, muse lets me look.
A farmstead by the rush.
Whisper in my ear, ancestor cheer, comedic discuss.

A choice for some, prince or slum.
Forward thinkin...
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Categories: farmstead, appreciation, courage, deep, life,
Form: Rhyme

The Old Farmstead

...THE OLD FARMSTEAD
by
JOHN M. ARRIBAS




So many sunsets since I last tread this lane
Stirring deep seeded emotions so hard to contain
I know it’s the same place where I grew
The old farmst...
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Categories: farmstead, emotions, farm, feelings, for
Form: Rhyme

The Singing Fools

...We are farmers without hoes and cutlasses
Dancing the stupid song of poverty 
Push us back and forth, we follow
Once in the farmland, we does nothing than sleeping.
Under the farmstead snoring pr...
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Categories: farmstead, addiction, drug,
Form: ABC

We Are Where We All Belong

...I do not know what happened 
before I became a singer, yet Agbozo says
we are where we all belong on this earth

they say the dog does not birth a child in public, 
to whom should I give my song...
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Categories: farmstead, adventure, africa, black african
Form: Free verse

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