Five Chameleon Sisters
...five chameleon sisters with talents none shared
dancing the day awake in a Nebraskan hay field
one was a dancer, dreaming of Broadway and Park Avenue
one was a soothsayer, seeing three of their fu...
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Categories:
nebraskan, sister,
Form: Free verse
An Iowan Takes On a Nebraskan Beef Eater
...I will have my steak gruesomely rare.
Eating mine with Heinz 57 flare.
I am from I-O-WAY
I do not play.
I can eat a cow, a horse and a mare.
I am from Nebraska don’t you know?
You Iowans can ...
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Categories:
nebraskan, food,
Form: Limerick
Who Am I-What Do I Let Define Me-
...Who am I
What do I let define me
I might be sixty-four, you see
I might be a man, you see
I might be evil you won’t see
I might be kind this I’ll be
Who am I, and what do I let ...
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Categories:
nebraskan, analogy, caregiving, celebration, confidence,
Form: Dramatic Verse
The Man That He Was, and Still Is
...(A Pre-Memorial Poem for Bob Lind)
Well the day that I met Bob Lind stays in my mind
For we met in a restaurant farmer’s still use,
A fond memory with me for twenty five years,
Of friends meeti...
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Categories:
nebraskan, journey, life, love, ,
Form: Rhyme
Driving Alone Through the Sand Hills of Nebraska
...My love is light (a fairy kiss?)
Like the pressure of sunbeams on your cheek,
Ineffable, and yet capable of changing lives…
Darkening skin to a more attractive ...
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Categories:
nebraskan, lost love,
Form: Blank verse