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Iowans Poems - Poems about Iowans


Premium Member John Wayne and Me
...John Wayne was born in a tiny house in a teeny Iowa town. We love claiming him, because Iowans do not usually leave Iowa. Certainly do not become bigger-than-life cowboy movie stars! But he did, a......

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Categories: iowans, tribute,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member An Iowan Takes On a Nebraskan Beef Eater
...I will have my steak gruesomely rare. Eating mine with Heinz 57 flare. I am from I-O-WAY I do not play. I can eat a cow, a horse and a mare. I am from Nebraska don’t you know? You Iowans can ......

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Categories: iowans, food,
Form: Limerick



Derecho of 2020
...The first text warning that the approaching storm Is nothing like we’ve ever experienced before Is dismissed as it will surely lose steam Before it reaches us, Two hundred miles to the east. ......

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Categories: iowans, storm,
Form: Imagism
Premium Member My Brother's Keeper
...When an Amish village in Iowa once burnt down Their brethren in Pennsylvania gathered round They decided at once to put their own lives on hold To their dear brothers' aid in horse-drawn wag......

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Categories: iowans, blessing, care, character, community,
Form: Narrative
Ted Cruz
...All today I had the blues Because I listened to the news, Learning Iowans did choose Not Trump or Rubio, but Cruz. This candidate does not amuse. His cockiness just seems to ooze From all his......

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Categories: iowans, political,
Form: Monorhyme



Thanks Given
...Like retired folk for Florida, the British for their tea, Like China is for foreign debts, trash dumpers for the sea... Like Russians are for alcohol, and Ethiopia'd be for rain, Like Catholic priest......

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Categories: iowans, thank you,
Form: Couplet
Four More Years
...Four more years Four more years Barack Hussein Obama Four more years. To continue the journey Begun four years ago To score aimed goal Four more years. To let not die The farsighted story Of Ame......

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Categories: iowans, political, planet,
Form: Verse

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