Long Water tank Poems
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Twenty Acres More Or Less
I was only twelve or thirteen when Dad bought
The twenty acres alongside the highway
On the east side of town in 1956,
That seemed so quiet then, unimportant even.
A piece of ground where horses had been kept...
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Categories:
water tank, life, prejudice, , western,
Form:
Free verse
Hush the Stars
“Look up at the stars,” you say
Its just another night up on the old water tank
Our blanket is spread and here we sit with the universe our theater
Another night of showing me the constellations
Astronomy…your...
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Categories:
water tank, passion, universe,
Form:
Epic
The Water Tower
The water tower stands above the town and can be seen for miles around. It has a
ladder leading up to the base of the tank. This ladder has been climbed by countless...
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Categories:
water tank, childhood, faith, father, lifewords, water, water,
Form:
Narrative
Little Adobe House
Little adobe house on 160 acres
She grows flowers. I grow corn
Tomatoes, watermelon, etc.
Peace, love, hope, and joy
Grow themselves
Porch faces orange blazes
Draped over the rugged Mules
And a barn owl hoovers over
An old water tank with a...
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Categories:
water tank, faith, family, love,
Form:
Free verse
Romancing In the Coconut Tree
You continue to play the game and looking for someone to blame
You continue to play the game when everything around you is so lame
The days are sprinting by with a profound message from the anxious...
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Categories:
water tank, career, emotions, endurance, environment, goodbye, integrity, political,
Form:
Narrative
Thar: the Deserted Land
All men have born desires
garland of the prettiest arm.
Want to meet in the loveliest Place
Where no hurdle no harm.
...
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Categories:
water tank, death of a friend, fantasy, for teens,
Form:
Elegy
High Kicking Rasberries
The tale of the high kicking raspberries in two hundred lines of silt and steamed porridge oats.
Keynotes noted kissing keystones keep keystrokes kingly. But kingly is often not associated with kindness, kinship, or kept keepers...
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Categories:
water tank, baby,
Form:
I do not know?
Crazy Day
Ever find yourself getting
up on the wrong side of
the bed, knowing your
going to have one of those
days!! Guess what!
everything went wrong,
first, the letters slipped
out of...
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Categories:
water tank, funny,
Form:
Free verse
Pressing
It’s one of those days when my stomach is pressing against my chest, and my lungs is playing tick tock toe with its own breath. My adrenaline is running a hundred miles marathon per hour...
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Categories:
water tank, career, community, deep, house, pain, perspective, planet,
Form:
Narrative
Influenced By Basil Fawlty
I was influenced by Basil Fawlty
that sarcastic humour really caught me
inappropriate rude crude and naughty
humour against stress which haunts me
I'm the sort some assume a dim bulb
even the spoons make a sharper...
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Categories:
water tank, england, humor, me,
Form:
Rhyme
Dusty Boots
The Hill Country is dry and you can forget about California
Filled with dying live oak and mesquite
There’s a seven-year drought upon us
And momma says it’s going to get worse
Red ants on the tire trails
They don’t...
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Categories:
water tank, nature, strength,
Form:
Free verse
Windmill
It was once the pride of a prairie farmer not too many years ago.
Now, long abandoned it stands forlorn on a wind-blown plateau.
Its rusting blades slowly turn at the whim of every passing breeze.
It has...
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Categories:
water tank, nostalgia, water, water,
Form:
Rhyme
Categories:
water tank, world,
Form:
Rhyme
Who Be That
He don tey
Ma guy he don tey
Wey monkey dey work
And baboon dey talk
Chai! No be today.
Make I tanda
Gidigba like Balogun Thunder
Drop some verse like vaseline
Put ugwu meta
And land ponmo like four
Untop dis mata.
No be...
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Categories:
water tank, clothes, corruption, environment, life, political,
Form:
Rhyme
The Laptop Cowboy
The Laptop Cowboy
I got four hundred white face cows,
A breed that I swear by.
A herd of Mustangs to be rode,
New laptop standin' by.
I keep it in my saddlebag
Or on the pickup seat.
I'm learnin' how to...
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Categories:
water tank,
Form:
Cowboy Poetry
Bound To Escape
He was always in and out of work
It wasn't that he liked to shirk,
he didn't keep a job for long
because his attitude was wrong.
Then one day early in the spring
he started doing conjuring,
until he had...
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Categories:
water tank, death, people, sad, social, day, people, day,
Form:
Rhyme
Chateau Pl
Chateau Pl
A sleep walk guided by reflections
Although somethings were real
Not the front entry way
Or the stair case
Or the garage for that matter
Scrubbed and alcohol swabbed shoes
Eating off those would've been though
Pee sitting down!
And cologne must...
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Categories:
water tank, class, food, jobs, satire, work,
Form:
Prose
Hopkins Snakes
Hopkins snakes
Old Hopkins had a rope ladder,
To keep snakes out of the house,
Snake killing sticks under the rain water tank,
In the shower, where a snake ate the mouse,
The fowls all lived up in the trees,
Brownies...
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Categories:
water tank, adventure,
Form:
Ballad
The Beauty
The beauty
Of
Namatjira
White haired
Bark painter's
Of fish
Wandjina
Feathered man
Full sunset
Corroboree
Pintubi
Dancers
In watercourse
Colours
Of hills
And rangers
Near Henbury
Or was it
Kings canyon
South
Alice springs
Dome like peaks
Of Olga's
Stark landscape
Barren
Barkly
Near Soudan
Where
Dust storms
A common hazard
The faces
Of William Richetts
In the Maelstrom
Those colours
Of time
And day
House Wife's
Bushman
Children of the
Banka,...
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Categories:
water tank, art, courage, poetry,
Form:
Free verse
The Drop Tine Bull
The brindled drop tine bull
Brings his herd along the fence
He steers the steers and leers at me
His look not quite intense
We ponder life, each his own strife, this old cow boy and me
He clears...
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Categories:
water tank, memory,
Form:
Free verse
He Complained, She Survived
He complained that he had no hot water in his home because the water tank was broken.
She told him that her water came from a slough, which was five miles from her home.
He complained that...
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Categories:
water tank, loneliness, poverty,
Form:
Free verse
A Letter To Mr Stomach
Dear Mr. Stomach
I am writing to let you know you give me headache.
I have fed you in bulk,
But you never get full you are like 1 million water tank.
The ancestors craved and never satisfied theirs,
They...
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Categories:
water tank, anger, body, depression, emotions, food,
Form:
I do not know?
The Farm
We moved to Amarillo
Dad had bought a farm
Chickens, pigs and a milk cow
In a big red painted barn
Just twenty seven acres
Of irrigated land
With a windmill and a water tank
And a pump you did...
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Categories:
water tank, places
Form:
Quatrain
A Fish Who Recognized Nirvana
A tiny fish in a polluted pond struggled to breathe.
She is suddenly scooped up with a batch of the stinky water.
It is poured off her, and she is plunked into a fresh water tank
With her...
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Categories:
water tank, 3rd grade, 4th grade, 5th grade, 6th
Form:
Free verse
Remember When
Remember when
summer days were long
roller skating was cool
collecting the sticker from your 5 cent gum
while learning how to walk the dog with your coke a cola yo yo
remember when...
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Categories:
water tank, childhood,
Form:
Light Verse