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Kansas Poems - Poems about Kansas

Kansas Poems - Examples of all types of poems about kansas to share and read. This list of new poems is composed of the works of modern poets of PoetrySoup. Read short, long, best, and famous examples for kansas.
Hands Us
.... for public domain Among the trials and challenges the Lord of Life hands us, I find them more livable in Smith Center, Kansas. True wealth of a nation, humble dignity of its people, down......Read the rest...
Categories: kansas, farm, home, integrity,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member She Wanted to Get Away and Think
...when she left her house she was running not as fast as a cougar, but swift for a two-legged she wanted to get away and think in order to do that, she had to leave the electronics behind her husba......Read the rest...
Categories: kansas, women,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member thoughts on a perfect Kansas day
...It is one of those perfect Kansas days Seventy-eight degrees and breezy It feels like seventy I have propped the front door open Confident because I no longer have a cat The last time I did this......Read the rest...
Categories: kansas, how i feel,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member We're Not in Kansas Anymore
... Poetry Soup wears a new face ~ it's like wandering in a strange place as if blown away with tornadic force ~ floundering its way off course after reading new lines, I gave a shrug ~ l......Read the rest...
Categories: kansas, how i feel,
Form: Monoku
Premium Member remembering my best self
...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...
Categories: kansas, age,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Kansas is Clay Country
...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...
Categories: kansas, flower, garden,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member power animal reassures me
...I spent my first day of retirement chopping down small trees. Renegade brambles full of ivy and poison vines, Kansas kinds. Tripped on several of them, landing hard, without using my hands. I hear......Read the rest...
Categories: kansas, work,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member children know crown centers beauty
...Anyone who is anybody or has traveled at all in the Midwest Knows about Crown Center, its beauty is the ultimate test They deck it out with beauty in the winter, honoring Christmas It is a Decembe......Read the rest...
Categories: kansas, travel,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Happily Ever After for a Fallen Star
...a fallen star dove in the middle of the Kansas forest of fir Landed next to a gorgeous dainty violet that quickly adopted her I will protect you until my dying day, the violet said, all cherry and ......Read the rest...
Categories: kansas, star,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Samson and The Liar: Parody
...Yond the Book of Judges, uncover the smudges, Samson and or Shimshon, a Nazarite vowed, son, Delilah deceptor, Philistia's daughter, The lipstick was preying, weight lift also praying,......Read the rest...
Categories: kansas, analogy, beauty, betrayal, bible,
Form: Alexandrine
Premium Member Zephyr
...Whether a trip to a sister's funeral in Chicago; Or another trip to Los Angeles for my aunt's funeral; Or a slow ride to a family reunion in Chicago; Or a 'Bucket-list' trip to an NFL game in Kans......Read the rest...
Categories: kansas, adventure, america, travel, vacation,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Gingham Prison: Beyond the Yellow Brick Road
... (A call for the lights to dim as a single spotlight illuminates the legend Judy Garland, who is center stage. She wears a faded housecoat as her beautiful, brandy brown eyes hold a lifetime of ......Read the rest...
Categories: kansas, addiction, anxiety, depression, loneliness,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member Don't Follow the Road to Oz
...I asked the wee Munchkins, "Which way do I go?" Figured since they lived here, they would be in the know. But they looked at me uncertainly, scared of the witch. Then realizing she was dead; they ......Read the rest...
Categories: kansas, humor,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member I'm Not in Kansas Anymore
...(Mimic the song..."If I Only Had A Brain" by the Scarecrow from The Wizard of Oz) I could be so independent So lavish and resplendent Just a player in the game I would wield mighty powers......Read the rest...
Categories: kansas, angst, loss, memory,
Form: Lyric
I WISH I HAD
...I WISH I HAD I wish I had courage The cowardly Lion admitted To stand up and be bold Against a foe when pitted I wish I had a heart The Tin Man strongly desired To feel emotions once again......Read the rest...
Categories: kansas, courage, inspiration, wisdom,
Form: Rhyme

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