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Kentucky Poems - Poems about Kentucky

Kentucky Poems - Examples of all types of poems about kentucky 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 kentucky.
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...Read the rest...
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...Read the rest...
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...Read the rest...
Categories: kentucky, appreciation, celebrity, deep, music,
Form: Free verse

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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...Read the rest...
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....Read the rest...
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...Read the rest...
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...Read the rest...
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....Read the rest...
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...Read the rest...
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...Read the rest...
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...Read the rest...
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...Read the rest...
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...Read the rest...
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...Read the rest...
Categories: kentucky, feelings, imagery, november, sun,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Kentucky Derby Weekend At Church
They wore their Kentucky Derby headdress hats into the church. The minister knew that no one would be seeing him that day. He liked conducting a sermon the weekend of the Derby. He did not have to comb...Read the rest...
Categories: kentucky, humorous,
Form: Prose Poetry

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