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Kentucky Poems - Poems about Kentucky

Premium Member Kentucky Derby Day
Today is Derby Day It is a big day in Kentucky I have never attended, but I try to watch each year I love to see the dresses and the fancy hats and the beautiful, strong horses give their all It is a special day that people in other states may not think is a big deal but I love Derby Day...

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Categories: kentucky, horse, race,
Form: Free verse
Kentucky Woodpeckers
when out birding, woodpeckers are one of my favorite finds in Kentucky, where i live there are seven different kinds the smallest is the Downy and they seem to like my suet feeders best I always see them in a pair so I hope nearby is their nest next we have the Hairy and its just bigger by a...

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Categories: kentucky, bird,
Form: Rhyme



Kentucky Mustang
October gallops in as stolid as a gray mare, a blunt wind snorts furiously through autumnal trees. Foliage rattles, but does not fall, it clings still to green stems. Appalachian backwoods have tough roots, shod as they are into an earth salted with a dark gritty ore. Bears are foraging and reaping, their black silky pelts clamber over gusting winds to reach the furthest...

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Categories: kentucky, poverty,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Slow Burn
Burnt sienna waves, laughing – pleasant days, Full of light, seas infused with hope, Soft sounds of roaring peace, still and cool, Falling like stars who have mastered the art of reflecting, The joy in twinkling, glistening in the skies, Wishing these dreams weren’t passing them by, Dreams passing by… Toasted brown eyes, pupils black as charred thoughts, Beckoning to the virgin colors, Sapphire...

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Categories: kentucky, appreciation, celebrity, deep, music,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Kentucky Derby
The gates open as a large crowd starts rushing in A day of pomp and pageantry is about to begin It is the first Saturday in May at Churchill Downs home of the Kentucky Derby Top 3-year-olds from around the world circle the track in a frenzied hurry The jockeys with their colorful outfits mount their...

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Categories: kentucky, horse, people,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member The Kentucky Derby Poem
As swift behooves, In challenging quest, Competitive hearts, Race their best, A treasure to win, One measurable test, For equine ones, The World's Best. new renditions to have compared later. This is with As starting out on first line....

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Categories: kentucky, 12th grade, america, celebration,
Form: Ode
Premium Member Dawne Gee of Wave News 3 In Louisville Kentucky
Dawne Gee really makes her best effort to inform you and me about what is real and what is the "Present Reality"! Dawne Gee.....Dawne Gee...Dawne Gee........Where would we be without Dawne Gee and "Wave News 3? Dawne Gee and "Wave News 3 is "Achieving Something Good"so that Wave News 3 and "Dawne Gee"...

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Categories: kentucky, 12th grade, 1st grade,
Form: Ballad
Premium Member For Milt - Our Kentucky Friend
A friend was he to you and me. Like me, he was a poet and a teacher, Gosh, I think he’d even been a preacher! I liked that he enjoyed using lots of poetry forms and also that he stuck to grammar rules even though not everyone might find that cool! His soul was true to what he knew, and if with...

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Categories: kentucky, friend,
Form: Rhyme
Lady From Kentucky
There was a lady from Kentucky, Whose husband always played hockey, She wrote poems on magic, Until there was a tragic, Her husband was turned into a key. December 11, 2022....

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Categories: kentucky, humor, humorous,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Pope Lick Monster of Floyd Kentucky
Legend of goat man of pop lick trestle prominent in the stories of mountain folk blue grass anomaly seen by a few chilling bluegrass spotters who become hypnotized some local hillbillies affected jump off the trestle landing a hundred feet below on sharp gravel terrifying to passengers of oncoming train he uses voice mimicry to lure many to their deaths common story in...

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Categories: kentucky, myth,
Form: Free verse
Kentucky Fried
There once was an overweight chicken Who feared she'd become finger lickin' She let out a loud squawk At the sight of a fork And shot from the Coop panic stricken 3 November 2022 Syllable counter.. poetry soup...

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Categories: kentucky, humorous,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Looking For Something
I am an old man a deep well an epoch marriage a raven haired beauty five above average kids Orion deckhand and cook teacher of the year Bible study leader jail preacher song worship leader NAU graduate --graduate school ASU graduate --undergraduate school life guard breakfast cook English tutor Archie Brokeshoulder's well puller grain elevator operator pizza chef dishwasher mental hospital patient prisoner welder all region linebacker wrestler pole vaulter 3 high schools 4 jr highs 2 elementary schools 8 states 2 dads 5...

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Categories: kentucky, journey, old,
Form: Free verse
The Horse
The Horse. A horse gives joy to everyone, By those that ride them just for fun. There are others that race them, a quarter mile, and those that do it Kentucky style. We also see them trot and pace, and teams with wagons, that love to race. They are also quick to run a steer, and buck a cowboy without any fear. We see...

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Categories: kentucky, animal, celebration, horse, joy,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member A Married Man In Kentucky
There’s a young married man in Kentucky Who finds all touchy-feely stuff yucky He is so uptight he shakes hands goodnight He says he’d like kids, but some guys aren’t lucky 2/11/22...

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Categories: kentucky, humorous,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member November In Kentucky
November in Kentucky Outside my windows Morning is gray again. November kidnaps the sunrise sun Leaving gray, Day after day, Weakening the spirit… So eyes close Casting sight to blackness That drifts to dreaming Radiant scenes. ———————————————————————- (c) sally young Eslinger 11/2021 Glory to God...

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Categories: kentucky, feelings, imagery, november, sun,
Form: Free verse

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