Midwestern Poems - Poems about Midwestern

You might be from a small midwestern town If you know what husking corn means You might be from Iowa If your town was full of relatives You might be from Nebraska If you have heard the term huskers You might be from Illinois If you know a dairy cow from other cows You might be from a small midwestern town If your town...

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Spring winds rattle walls trash cans roll along the street— ...

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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 and gentle ravines awaken to the Meadowlark’s chorus in Nature's melody Bite Size Poem no48 Poetry Contest...

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The amateur click Staggers like Amateur words Across stained glass Autumn and Skeleton winter In which black Water resembles Not remotely The sea clear as Crystal And echoes only A shadow of the Imperfect A portrait of a façade Wrinkling with the slightest breath Like loose skin on taut knuckles Leaving a mirage Crude and inaccurate As the syllables Describing the phenomenon In which the Reflection itself becomes the Fixation The...

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I am deprived of my old sweet relief, Turning the page but turn to the leaf. I spill out myself to sanction some space To which I can return, try to compensate. Contemplate and complicate my own design I find this a fate to which I cannot resign. Soaking in the petrichor of each night, Of every solemnly forsaken fight. Each decision and...

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