A Ghost of Gettysburg
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Several years ago, we bought an old farm house.
It was 3 miles down a dirt road beside an old millhouse.
It seems this area was involved in a major war fight.
Sometimes it would last all...
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Categories:
millhouse, 10th grade, 9th grade,
Form: Quatrain
Richard Milhous Nixon
...Richard Milhous Nixon
Richard Millhouse Nixon
was awfully good at fixin’
everything but Watergate
sadly sealed a “tricky” fate
5/30/2015
submitted to – Cleri-who? – Poetry Contest
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Categories:
millhouse, humor, political,
Form: Clerihew
Peace Within the Valley
...There was peace within the valley,
And within the little church--
The white one with the steeple
Standing by the row of Birch.
And the people, few in number
Lord, they sure knew how to sing--
There ...
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Categories:
millhouse, beauty,
Form: Lyric
Smiley
...He was a sidekick even before they thought of such things,
Put there to add humor after the singing cowboy sings.
But he could sing, too, and often sang a funny ditty,
Yet his was one fine voice a...
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Categories:
millhouse, cowboy-western, life, people, voice,
Form: Cowboy Poetry