Missouri Raised
...Growing up in Podunk Missouri,
meant that we had the freedom to roam.
Up and down rivers and wooded hills,
those places that we called home.
Picked berries, peaches, plums, and cherries,
and a...
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Categories:
goatsuckers, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
Whip-Poor-Wills
...In the Appalachian hill country
there are night birds;
they call to each other in the dark
yet hunt alone.
These birds are not
owls but nightjars, they are known also
as whip-poor-wills, goat...
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Categories:
goatsuckers, poetry,
Form: Free verse