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Missouri Poems - Poems about Missouri
Missouri Poems - Examples of all types of poems about missouri to share and read. This list of new poems is composed of the works of modern poets of PoetrySoup. Read
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spying momo on the Missouri River
Momo blended in well with the trees moved fast considering he was walking in brush we followed this big-foot-like-creature down the Missouri River It was 1971, we knew he was an anomaly. Tried to tell people. They thought we had...
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Caren Krutsinger
Categories:
missouri,
animal,
Form:
Free verse
Another Year Remembered-1961
Nineteen hundred and sixty-one, was a strobogrammatic year. It will be six thousand and nine, ‘til the next time that will appear. It started off aggressively, Ike told Cuba to go to Hell. We ain’t talking to you no more, not...
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Jerry Brotherton
Categories:
missouri,
poetry,
Form:
Rhyme
Any Small Town
Before I understood how life was a weave of intricacies My town was a wonderful world to serve my childish fantasies. I was a young and healthy lad a source of mother’s pride and joy with sun...
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Jerry Brotherton
Categories:
missouri,
poetry,
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Rhyme
A Missouri Heaven
When the full moon rises, and the stars start to glow. Down to that old creek bank, is where I like to go. A few leaves still hanging, shaking in the breeze. Holding on for dear life to them persimmon trees. Out...
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Jerry Brotherton
Categories:
missouri,
poetry,
Form:
Rhyme
I’m Not in Missouri Anymore
I stepped off the bus just before midnight. The thermometer read 38 degrees, but I had never felt colder. Loneliness has a way of draining the warmth from your heart. The 400-year-old stone buildings were...
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Jerry Brotherton
Categories:
missouri,
poetry,
Form:
Haibun
children know crown centers beauty
Anyone who is anybody or has traveled at all in the Midwest Knows about Crown Center, its beauty is the ultimate test They deck it out with beauty in the winter, honoring Christmas It is a December sight...
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Caren Krutsinger
Categories:
missouri,
travel,
Form:
Rhyme
Going Back Home
Our love was like the afternoon sun, that melted those New York City streets. But you treated me like dried-up grass, that just crumbled underneath your feet. I can’t be who you want me to be, my blood’s country...
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Jerry Brotherton
Categories:
missouri,
poetry,
Form:
Rhyme
A Poet in Disguise
I am turning half of my garage into an office space so I will have more room to scatter my unorganized thoughts into even bigger piles. Of course, my neighbor had to mosey on over...
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Jerry Brotherton
Categories:
missouri,
poetry,
Form:
Haibun
A Midwestern Evening
Spring winds rattle walls ...
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Jerry Brotherton
Categories:
missouri,
poetry, storm,
Form:
Haiku
Probate
A cracked windowpane. A few daffodils peek their heads through the weeds that grow tall where flowers once smiled. Purple nettle chokes the life from any grass courageous enough to try to stand in its...
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Jerry Brotherton
Categories:
missouri,
poetry,
Form:
Haibun
No Sun Today
A total eclipse might be my last one to see— Spring rain forecasted...
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Jerry Brotherton
Categories:
missouri,
poetry,
Form:
Haiku
Winter on the Old Homestead
Three kids to a bed, two beds to a room, three rooms crowded with flannel long johns and wool socks. If I was lucky enough maybe they had only been worn by two or three...
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Jerry Brotherton
Categories:
missouri,
poetry,
Form:
Free verse
My Golden Doodle
He surveys his kingdom each day, from Iron Gate to Wooden Wall. Each leaf that falls and blade that sways, his loyal subjects one and all. The cattle grazing in the field, the kittens nestled in the shed. He knows each...
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Jerry Brotherton
Categories:
missouri,
poetry,
Form:
Rhyme
That Red Haired Girl
Every person’s destiny is created by a single point in time, and we are forever tied to that event. That moment when the world starts to make sense and the pages in the book of...
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Jerry Brotherton
Categories:
missouri,
poetry,
Form:
Haibun
Goodnight Dad
Goodnight Dad I was sitting in the backyard earlier, just gazing at the stars. The sky was clear, and the moon was still asleep somewhere back east. My mind, as it usually does, started to...
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Jerry Brotherton
Categories:
missouri,
poetry,
Form:
Haibun
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