Missouri Poems - Poems about Missouri

... 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 b......Read the rest...

...My friends said C’mon let’s go, let’s head on down to Mexico.’ We’ll drink up all their tequila and we’ll snort up all their blow. My friends said c’mon let’s go, out to Aspen, Colorado. We’ll snu......Read the rest...

... 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 to see just what ......Read the rest...

...I’ve doodled and dawdled in Delaware, Piddled in Pennsylvania without care, I’ve been to New York and Alabama, Michigan, Missouri and Montana. I’ve travelled in every state, my friend. And I c......Read the rest...

... Spring winds rattle walls trash cans roll along the street— No sirens this time ......Read the rest...

... Hillary drives a vehicle to the south pole, Gibson gives us the Flying V. In football we can now score an extra two points, and Legos blocks first hit the street. 50 inches of snow on Mason D......Read the rest...

... 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 ......Read the rest...

... A total eclipse might be my last one to see— Spring rain forecasted......Read the rest...

... 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 brothers before me. ......Read the rest...

... 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 nestle......Read the rest...

... 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 our life unfold to r......Read the rest...

... The humidity was doing a good job of keeping pace with the temperature. Until around 10 AM when the thermometer pushed its way past 100. That’s when 176 frightened kids and a few old hippies stagge......Read the rest...

...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 drift ba......Read the rest...

... Driving down those dark and dusty country roads. The rocks and rubber are singing in harmony as rows of brown corn flash and disappear. You turn on the radio and we let its melodies form images in ......Read the rest...

... A subtle whisper into my mother’s ear by my 15-year-old brother Lawrence Dean and she proclaimed me Jerry Wayne Brotherton the prettiest baby boy she’d ever seen Okay, okay, I hear what you ......Read the rest...