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Hoosier Poems - Poems about Hoosier

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Premium Member In This Life
...I am me born in 1974 grew up in a small town branched out into Big City Orlando lived on the wild side explored the Hoosier State settled back into small town Ohio lived, laughed loved ......Read the rest...
Categories: hoosier, life,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member An Old Shovel
...In 1890, cowboy Bob Womack found gold at the base of lofty Pikes Peak! In short order a ramshackle town was founded called Cripple Creek. Hordes of gamblers, 'soiled doves' and prospectors hopin' t......Read the rest...
Categories: hoosier, fate, humorous, mountains,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Cats, Hats, and Bats
...A weird old woman loved cats And outlandish broad-rimmed hats Why should we think it odd The old dame is quite mod, Why she even dines with her bats. written, Winte......Read the rest...
Categories: hoosier, humor,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Man From the Moon
...Said a man returned from the moon “I fear I have come back too soon, For I left about seven On my journey to heaven And here it is now only noon.” written, Winter 1......Read the rest...
Categories: hoosier, earth, moon, space, travel,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member The Guv'Ment Wants To Change My Name
...Unruly rabble demolished statues of General Robert Lee. Now, the politically correct clique is a-comin' after me! My name is Robert Lee as well and 'twas so inopportune, That I be associated......Read the rest...
Categories: hoosier, humorous,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Rave Notice
...Dark fingers rained a thousand captured chords Ranging like restless fireflies under glass Gathered notes in freakish trilling hordes Offering the Danse Macabre pass. Sensuous and delicate on the......Read the rest...
Categories: hoosier, music, passion,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Rembrandt of the Great Midwest
...Clyde Pucelli was known as The Rembrandt of The Great Midwest! He was an itinerant painter, esteemed as one of the best! With his brushes and well-blended oils he'd render a masterpiece; His......Read the rest...
Categories: hoosier, art, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Bacon Sizzlin' In the Skillet
...Many are the memories of Hoosier farm life as a lad that I recall. One was what Dad called 'hog renderin' that occurred every fall. When he proclaimed the old boar had reached his maximum weight, ......Read the rest...
Categories: hoosier, dad, food, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member This Old Barn
...It has stood for decades along the county gravel road. Skittering mice and barn owls now call it their abode. What was once a stately building is now a shambles, Surrounded by barren fields and ......Read the rest...
Categories: hoosier, farm, nostalgia,
Form: Rhyme
A Fugitive
...A Fugitive Bus Stop Overland Park, Kansas 7:35 PM A furrowed brow and furtive eyes that refuse to engage another, striding quickly through the crowd and putting people between him and the p......Read the rest...
Categories: hoosier, destiny, identity, tribute,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member When I Was a Mere Lad of Ten
...I was a mere lad of ten living on a prairie farm in Hoosier land, Roaming the fields in my old straw hat, barefoot, carefree and tanned. My faithful dog, Spooks, was always with me chasing rabbits,......Read the rest...
Categories: hoosier, childhood,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Sixty-Six Years Ago Today - 7 July 1948
...Sixty-Six years ago today a very naïve farm-boy left the Hoosier farm, To seek adventure beyond the horizon since farming had lost its charm. He enlisted in the Air Force, a knight in blue to keep th......Read the rest...
Categories: hoosier, humorous, military,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Grandpa's Fiddle
...Grandpa was a jolly fellow so talented and so wise. He could plant a row of corn as straight as the arrow flies! He was a very handy carpenter never once hitting his thumb, And he built barns "'s......Read the rest...
Categories: hoosier, grandfather, music, nostalgia,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member I Knowed It Was Summer When
...I have many fond memories growin' up on the farm as a boy. Such simple pleasures in times more sublime brought me great joy! I knowed it was summer when in June Dad bought me a straw hat, And in the ......Read the rest...
Categories: hoosier, childhood, nostalgia,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Delicate Matter of 'service'
...When I was just a wee farm lad growin' up in Hoosier land, There were many things about farm life I didn't quite understand! One day I saw a neighbor leadin' a big bull down the gravel road. I ask......Read the rest...
Categories: hoosier, farm, humor,
Form: Couplet

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