Michigan Poems - Poems about Michigan

...We don’t put away our boots and coats. Here in Michigan. Instead, we close our eyes and feel a soft presence. We jerk awake, in our hammocks. To a dream of cold snow. But it was just a dandelion......Read the rest...

...I’ve doodled and dawdled in Delaware, Piddled in Pennsylvania without care, I’ve been to New York and Alabama, Michigan, Missouri and Montana. I’ve travelled in every state, my friend. And I c......Read the rest...

...We suddenly strolled down Lakeshore drive facing Goethe street named after Wolfgang von Goethe famous German poet just at the crosswalk while waving to the hidden Walter Payton nooks wandering......Read the rest...

...distress alarm went out over the Dunkirk Sea french bunnies in the water, capsized, maybe three tugboats and rowboats raced to try and help argentine bunnies were pulled out wearing gooey kelp ......Read the rest...

...This chilly water I am sitting in. Could it be Lake Michigan? Slimy minnows in spurts. Sharp stones that poke and hurt. The sand is a bit harsh. But exfoliates if you’re in a rush! The breeze i......Read the rest...

...Coleen Moore 1898-1988. An Angel Born In Michigan Her personality and good looks Took her to fortune and fame On stage and the silent silver screen A longed for dream that made her name So l......Read the rest...

... Kalamazoo kids went off to war leaving giddy gals to go forward in fractured factories ~from music to munitions gay guitars would wait until battered boys came hurriedly home... or would the......Read the rest...

...At sixteen People's Bible Church sent me from rural Michigan farm lands to Moody Bible Institute in siren-screaming Chicago Church fathers assumed, despite curious evidence to the contrary, ......Read the rest...

...February 27th Lower Peninsula of Michigan One week of true cold and snow is all This year Today is the warmest day ever recorded For this entire month An ancient age is passing Winter short......Read the rest...

...Some people have jackets. The jackets have wrinkles from sitting in the closet. We have been trapped in our winter coats for so long. The afternoon creeps in. By then, Some people don’......Read the rest...

...Reading fridge magnets; surprised how interesting, the world is when stamped into rubber decals. Rome, Ankara, both Buda and Pest. Watching a colorful rolling diorama, pictographs tumbling over......Read the rest...

... (Note: In this abecedarian poem, I redacted the name of the particular denomination to protect the innocent and to universalize the context. Fill in your own favorite groups! Prejudice against ......Read the rest...

... The National Science Foundation outsources to Colleges, today's mental assassins to secretly censor you using "wisedex" among other things. "Wisedex" is in the shadows of academia, a dee......Read the rest...

... I'm sitting in an old station Waiting on a train I don't see the clouds But my knee says it's rain. I just ate a cold sandwich Out of pink cellophane I'm going back to Michigan And my fami......Read the rest...

...Mrs. Crow Mutton has a mission – the Antarctica or bust. We were shocked when she ordered boots in red rust. She ordered a down winter coat with a print on it too. And a patterned knitted cap crea......Read the rest...