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Hampshire Poems - Poems about Hampshire


Premium Member GNRT DAY 42 THE PLANNED AND UNPLANNED ON OUR WAY TO NEW HAMPSHIRE
On this road trip we make tentative plans as to the memories we’d like collected but we often find the best memories are totally unexpected. Take today for instance.. We planned to visit The Old Round Church in Richmond, Vermont It was to be the first stop of the day… This 16-sided church was built in 1812, and is the...

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Categories: hampshire, travel,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member New Hampshire Autumn
golden chestnut browns sparkling against natures reds and yellows oaks, maples, sycamores, pregnant with autumn leaves mammoth round topped giants peppering the countryside climbed maybe in our youth, but many limbs are way up high new hampshire is a showcase of beauty in october before her mountains lose their variegated spotted leaves walnuts, acorns and almonds are falling now into the open...

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Categories: hampshire, autumn,
Form: Imagism



Watching Amos Plowing With Horses
“Howdy Amos”, “Howdy Seth”, without a glance. Amos t’aint much for words as he stares straight ahead His gaze as straight as his furrows. Amos is what you might call a “deep thinker”. I watch as he bounces up and down on the plow hitch The bells on his mighty Percherons jingling with each practiced step As they perform their timeworn...

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Categories: hampshire, history, nostalgia,
Form: Narrative
My Very Favorite Apple Tree
In the lonesome woods near Sunapee I spied the perfect apple tree. With ancient trunk, yet in its prime, A thing of beauty, its form sublime. As I approached and looked around, I saw most apples on the ground. Alas, I had arrived too late. The deer had sealed each apple’s fate. And yet I saw as if by chance One lone fruit high...

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Categories: hampshire, autumn,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member My New Hampshire Friend
I have a friend in New Hampshire, I’ve known for eighteen years We’ve had unbelievable adventures, many places that we went The security of our connection eases stress and looming fears We’ve had chaotic times, fun times, in all the time we’ve spent She has seen my laughter, tears and anger, all emotions there are Accepts me for who I...

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Categories: hampshire, appreciation, friend,
Form: Rhyme



New Hampshire Dawn
Coming from nowhere Going the same The tracks in front Pointing to Tracks behind The wind on the lake Reminding That I am still a guest The snow on the ice An invitation Begging acceptance New Hampshire Winters Are white In my consciousness And frozen in their Clarity Even whiter Dawns Out of the stillness A Moose crashes Through the snow Never acknowledging My presence His majesty Confirming everything That unfound I’ve lost His spirit cries out And...

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Categories: hampshire, winter,
Form: Free verse
New Hampshire Dawn
Coming from nowhere Going the same The tracks in front Pointing to Tracks behind The wind on the lake Reminding That I am still a guest The snow on the ice An invitation Begging acceptance New Hampshire Winters Are white In my memory And frozen in their Clarity Even whiter Dawns Out of the stillness A Moose crashes Through the snow Never acknowledging My presence His majesty Confirming everything That unfound I’ve lost His spirit cries out And...

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Categories: hampshire, morning,
Form: Free verse
A Flag Speaks At Hampshire College
?So...... burn me you can try To use my colors for a fire But why ?? I am the flag of Freedom Semper Fi Red - the blood of patriots hear them sigh White - their Mothers’ tears hear them cry Blue - hopes and dreams of freedom..never die So... burn me symbol of your right to speak burn me flag of human...

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Categories: hampshire, america, character, fire, freedom,
Form: Political Verse
New Hampshire Has Spoken
New Hampshire Has Spoken ©2012 C. Brent Cloyd Romney is choice of the republican elite With thirty-nine percent he’ll be hard to delete. Paul’s crowd is excited and nipping at his heels They’ve made monetary policy issues real. Huntsman says third place gives him a ticket to ride So on down to South Carolina he will slide. Gingrich has fallen and he is...

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Categories: hampshire, confusion, history, people, places,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member A Hampshire Day In May 1976
The damp night had brought a pearly dawn Lush green grass stood ankle deep late morn And there glistening sleek stood a brand new Rolls In chocolate brown metallic, over seamless gold. A group of people are looking on, It must have cost a good deal said one, come on! It cost ten thousand the young man said There were intakes of...

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Categories: hampshire, life,
Form: Narrative
Tornadoes of New Hampshire
Yesterday I thought I try to help some strangers, I thought I would cry So we drove an hour and half to meet The rain was so torrential we could hardly see But our mission was true and hopefully we strove All along the road a beautiful green land cove I was hard to believe that nature had struck So...

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Categories: hampshire, natural disasters, nature, peoplefamily,
Form: Free verse
New Hampshire
fruit grows abundant plenty of vines of life there go there.be it.champ!...

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Categories: hampshire, art,
Form: Haiku

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