Michigan Poems - Poems about Michigan

...First night in his final place My dad called me weeping “Please Bobby bring me home.” His skin like ice cream Mel......Read More

...e year was 1946... Grandfather, on my dad's side, chemistry professor at the Ann Arbor Campus of the University of Michigan had just finished his tenure, completing his service to our country in the reserve as a full-bird Colonel in th......Read More

...In the dark By candle At my kitchen table I begin to sign the monthly checks. Soon the sun will rise A flood l......Read More

...ision But there was something missing still I loved the feel of freedom But, there was something missing still It Michigan it hit me It caught me by surprise I was looking at guitars one day It hit me hard between the eyes Worse......Read More

...looks now you'hv started a fire in my heart. I cant put it out, no one can. Even when i drown myself in frozen lake Michigan, I can still fell the hurt of my heart burning. Its a beautifull pain of sweet delight. I think am drunk,......Read More

...Entombed in apartments Vanished behind our surgeon masks, eyes darting Fidgeting for meaning Pacing living rooms Li......Read More

... even springy, optimistic. I wonder how much older I would feel if I had never left my family farm birthplace in Michigan where this nomad epic wandering was first inspired to run into young adulthood on my own two strong legs a......Read More

...FROM TIGER STADIUM HAS ITS ADVANTAGE AND DISADVANTAGES. BEING A YOUNGSTER HOT HUMID MUGGY SUMMER NIGHT. DETROIT MICHIGAN. JULY NINETEEN HUNDRED AND 73 WOULD TURN OUT TO BE A VERY COLD NIGHT. IN THE MOST UNTHINKABLE WAY. RUNNIN......Read More

...Beneath the city the river fishing is good. I roam with tackle and pole below those wiggling tapeworms Wound around......Read More

...g the Pledge of Allegiance on a fragrant Spring morning. The sun shining through the golden shades. Scents of Lake Michigan to add to the glory of the day. To be a seventh teacher at the great, Lyman Trumbull School, was a gift b......Read More

...gnty- may medallion sunsets in the west blaze over the desert in the heat of Arizona, and the four seasons riveting Michigan bring excitement- i pray that deliverance from war be our latitude; may we search and find harmony and ac......Read More

...I listen to Door County sing to Death’s door, where waters meet Green Bay, Lake Michigan and everything, wonders of the north I greet. I listen to fathers and their sons the builders of ships in St......Read More

...Oval Orange speckled rock As large as a giant dinosaur egg Sat in the scratchy field out back Of our lakeside A-Fra......Read More

...ear Door County I sing to your shores bounded by rolling tides. I sing to Death’s Door where Green Bay and Lake Michigan meet. I sing to your grief about sailors lost. I sing to the ships your sons make in Sturgeon Bay. I sing ......Read More

...giggle under our mistletoe, * kiss me with good tidings and cheer- * * here in Michigan, there’s no snow? * * * springtime weather is here! then i see my daughte......Read More