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Heartland Poems - Poems about Heartland


Halloween In the Heartland
Skeletal feet clickity clack, a zombie child chewing bubble gum giggles. I have set a cackling witch at my door but none are sacred tonight, yet the cold hand of the dark shivers all. Candy is proffered, horror masks nod, drool and moan, bone handed gloves grab recently caught Swedish Fish. I shove the witches switch at them, it's the only way to save some treats for the hungry...

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Categories: heartland, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Refuge - Natures Heartland
refuge I spot two ducks and using my fancy I picture them in nesting mode more ducks meadow mankind’s playground humans on a picnic strangely frightened, left in a rush. litter mid-stream kids formed a dam in the years past and gone a safe place for spawning catfish shelter forest tall evergreens, fragrant pine-needle floor has become wild creatures’ heartland haven white clouds no sign of rain people no longer come what may be hiding in the...

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Categories: heartland, 11th grade, animal, nature,
Form: Cinquain



Dastardly Dispirited
Sadness within me is my skald, Ignorant world, taunting my afterworld, Why is my soul in this soil pinfold... The sky is filled with dark enshroud, Am dumbstruck, thunderstorms cloud... Love is an unloved harken, The heart in me, a shrunken token... Fey reliquary in the sand, Buffing the defoliated leaves off my land, She lay her tears on my heartland......

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Categories: heartland, abuse, betrayal, courage, lost
Form: Rhyme
Heartland
I woke up one day as I didn't know what to do or say and found hope coming back my way on this precious day. In return I was horrified for not knowing what was to come,although again I found it all not feeling controlled just letting it all go just walk and stand tall...

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Categories: heartland, beautiful, childhood, dream, friendship,
Form: Concrete
The Heartland
The Heartland A living human is a universe Animated by the Heartland kingdom Since the juvenile age, it's disturbed By the desire of Love Some universes dream being conquered By a gorgeous attractive empire ...

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Categories: heartland, love, romancedesire, universe,
Form: Free verse



Communion of My Heartland
I yield to the earth in supplication to nature with worship in each breath listening to a sermon of kookaburras as a kangaroo bounds out a plate for tithe I see goannas parade the ancient rites and koalas swoon with the new age gospel waving their faces, and hanging from their mouths and the platypus monks of cold, carry the testaments to the deepest hovels living with just one heart I can...

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Categories: heartland, faith, imagination
Form: Free verse
No Place Like the Heartland
With serenity Of nature all around us Peace comes forth smoothly By: Misty Leccese © June 28, 2009 Inspired by Raul's contest....

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Categories: heartland, nature, peace
Form: Haiku

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