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Midwestern Poems - Poems about Midwestern

Midwestern Poems - Examples of all types of poems about midwestern 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 midwestern.
Premium Member Wind Beneath My Wings, Tribute to Elena
... “ Did I ever tell you, you are my hero? Did I ever tell you, you are everything I wanted to be? For, I can fly higher than an eagle, You are the wind beneath my wings!” ......Read the rest...
Categories: midwestern, birthday, inspiration, mother daughter,
Form: Ode



Premium Member One Man, Giant Vision
...Chicago, Illinois was his birthplace. He was a man of the white race. A move to a small midwestern town, And an idea for a famous street formed in his crown. In school, he realized he loved to ......Read the rest...
Categories: midwestern, career, character, creation, dream,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member MOSEY ON DOWN THE INTERSTATE HIGHWAY -
...Traveling up an interstate highway Round down about in a midwestern cove Speedometer cruise control sets low Going down interstate by the way Full tank of E-15 gas, eating on a corn cob Every......Read the rest...
Categories: midwestern, adventure, assonance, car, travel,
Form: Rhyme
Castaway
... She talked about her family in glimpses, like she was always walking a tightrope. Between normal and just chucking it all, for the next bus that might give her some hope. She tried to paint a......Read the rest...
Categories: midwestern, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member My Griffin
...Dear Griffin, I clearly remember the first time we met. Jim had brought you at all of four months of age to my families summer reunion. You were shy with those striking bi-eyes and those massive ......Read the rest...
Categories: midwestern, animal, dog,
Form: Elegy



A Reluctant Wind
...The bums and the heroes of revolution asleep As drawn to the cosmos a light travels deep He asked for no quarter playing outside the game His legion in shadows he’d never explain Each son......Read the rest...
Categories: midwestern, art, music,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member She Moved Upstairs
...our angel who sleeps so peacefully there the foundation that supports all our lives no momma' didn't die; she moved upstairs hands that can play Amazing Grace with flair a melody that will lift......Read the rest...
Categories: midwestern, mother son, remember,
Form: Villanelle
My Hometown
...Corn stalks dance In abandoned fields Like wispy ghosts Without their husks As children revel tirelessly Midwestern skies sapphire encrusted.......Read the rest...
Categories: midwestern, child, innocence, nostalgia,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member We Got a Crowd That's In a Frenzy Bob
...The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence Chapter L.A. I like to think of [the habit] as a bonfire or a lighthouse, so that light can shine out into places where there are no resources and there isn......Read the rest...
Categories: midwestern, anger, baseball, community, conflict,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Cinderella Damselfly
...Cinderella Damselfly was inspired as she clung to the Nebraska wheat her sparkly filigree wings were dazzled with Midwestern dew. she clung to the stalk in a desperate lonely ignored women’s way. ......Read the rest...
Categories: midwestern, 1st grade, 2nd grade,
Form: Free verse
Midwestern Prairie Morning
...The sun rises in a watermelon sky Green leaves welcome the newborn light shivering in the crisp air Watercolor wings amid the blooming blossoms flutter in the breeze The verdant high hills......Read the rest...
Categories: midwestern, bird, butterfly, earth, earth
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Tree of Oranges
...A day’s routine so easily holds me captive. I confess to mindless, museless departures, Brainless unpoetic habits so unreflective, That I cannot dwell in momentary textures. But January ripens......Read the rest...
Categories: midwestern, fruit, january, muse, passion,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Gradually Forgotten - and Lost
...I really enjoy watching old episodes of the early westerns like the Roy Rogers & Dale Evans program, I'm reminded of how honest and unmolested the Midwestern United States was back in the 1940s and 5......Read the rest...
Categories: midwestern, america, , western,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Shut Down
...A Midwestern small town Her lone tavern shut down The Motel 6 boarded up too We'll keep the light off for you......Read the rest...
Categories: midwestern, business, city, , western,
Form: Couplet
Blue Light Bulbs and a Bottle of Bleach and the Incandescent Must Win -Part 2
...“Deep, deep, deep. Listen and hear our faint gait. Sanitation, fluorescent lights, and a PC pillow for smother. Agree! Agree! Atone! Suck it in and suff-o-cate. White-ness. Black. Ev’ry creed, fai......Read the rest...
Categories: midwestern, america, farm, political, race,
Form: Rhyme

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