Iowa Poems - Poems about Iowa

...You cannot take the country out of a corn-fed Iowa girl You cannot pull the straw out of her teeth You cannot take the “yahs” and replace them with “yeses”. You can try to pull her off the tractor......Read the rest...

...I have flowers all over the yard not planted, but rather in pots for this is Kansas Clay country Sometimes I Iong for the fields of Iowa where even the bottom lands has pliable dirt this clay......Read the rest...

...I have flowers all over the yard not planted, but rather in pots for this is Kansas Clay country Sometimes I Iong for the fields of Iowa where even the bottom lands has pliable dirt this clay......Read the rest...

...I was from a poor rural county in Iowa The kind that drafts young men during wars Back in the late sixties many of our men went to Viet Nam Some did not return, others returned damaged Patriots......Read the rest...

...he is packing food for winter each kernel might make the difference between surviving the Iowa winter and not some say owls are wise they have nothing on squirrels he begins his climb to his nes......Read the rest...

...(A bit of fun for Thomas W. Case - I think he lives in Iowa) Hawkeye pride burns bright in Iowa City, the place where Tennessee Williams learned to curse. Iowa City hosts the 4th of J......Read the rest...

...Chesterfield explains everything with a hiss. You will not have time to ask him something, Before he tells you this He is an expert on bees, trees, houses, Mouses, dogs, And of course, Iowa fa......Read the rest...

...WINTER IN AN IOWA CORNFIELD Why start nattering about lucky tracks Neath a tarnished night of a waning storm? Haystacks in a disciplined platoon wait With hooded coats, caves of hibernation, S......Read the rest...

... “And I remember Muscatine -still more pleasantly - for its summer sunset. I have never seen any on either side of the ocean that equaled them.” Samuel Clemens in his younger years when he wor......Read the rest...

...Weird tourists from Iowa took readily to New York City Taking photos of the sights, thinking they were witty. Aren’t they cows? Someone asked on Fifth Avenue. One is, the other is a bull, said his......Read the rest...

...We moved from California to Iowa, Covid-19 masked. How do your cats like the snow? Someone asked. Depends on the cat, they treat it quite differently. Some like it then? Asked a curious neighborho......Read the rest...

...I rushed into my friend’s office once not realizing she had a guest. She said “This is Dr. Pat McClintock.” Dr. Pat McClintock said “You are a Stone Twin from Chariton Iowa.” This shocked me. I......Read the rest...

...Rubenesque pumpkin blossoms and blowers Come in the night to entice the best growers Playing music the future jack-o-lanterns here. Calling each other endearments like Pookie and Dear. The jack......Read the rest...

...I am at a wedding in Iowa. She called to tell me that the orange afterimage from that afternoon five years ago has filled her brain for the first time in years. I don’t have the heart to t......Read the rest...

...Crazy white rabbit trumpeter had a magic horn You could hear its cloudy sound past the Iowa corn I think he is in cups again my great-great-grandma said. She always knew when he was stoned out of ......Read the rest...