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Ozarks Poems - Poems about Ozarks

Ozarks Poems - Examples of all types of poems about ozarks to share and read. This list of new poems is composed of the works of modern poets of PoetrySoup. Read short, long, best, and famous examples for ozarks.
Circle of Life
... When I was a lad growing up in the small village of Wakenda, I would sometimes sit on the back porch and watch the stars move across the night sky. I would listen to the tune of the birds and farm ......Read the rest...
Categories: ozarks, poetry,
Form: Haibun



Premium Member Shreves Iris
...If you are a gardener who likes to mess with iris And you are lucky enough to have a winning combination No one else has every created and shown before You might be like Ralph Shreve from the Ozar......Read the rest...
Categories: ozarks, flower,
Form: Free verse
Life in the Country
... My wife and I have spent a good deal of our lives living between the city limit signs of one metropolis or another. As urban dwellers, we were constantly bombarded with the rumble of noises driftin......Read the rest...
Categories: ozarks, poetry,
Form: Haibun
It May Not Be True
... Everybody keeps asking me, “Hey Jerry.” Are all the things you write about really true. ‘Cause they find it pretty hard to believe, I’ve done all of the things I say I do. If I really did al......Read the rest...
Categories: ozarks, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
My Valley
...My Valley Tucked away in the north-central part of the state, about ten miles or so from where the clear and slow-moving water of the Grand River mixes with the quickly rolling mud of the Missouri......Read the rest...
Categories: ozarks, poetry,
Form: Haibun



The New House
...It’s wanting from a few years of neglect, relentless weeds crowding out the flowers. But like they say, her bones are pretty good, with some hard work and time we’ll make it ours. Replace a few......Read the rest...
Categories: ozarks, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
Ozark Ways
...The Ozarks is filled with barefoot hillbillies, so it says in all them old books. We are all just lazy, stupid, and silly, least that’s how they make us look. Layin’ on a creek bank chewing on ......Read the rest...
Categories: ozarks, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Book: Where the Red Fern Grows By Wilson Rawls
... one boy, two dogs; together, they define the beautiful in dreaming ......Read the rest...
Categories: ozarks, animal, beautiful, books, devotion,
Form: Monoku
Premium Member I Was Born Here
...I was born in Sunny Southern California, in the hottest month of the year! cries out my mother. California is known for its drought season; one we just came out of, it lasted four years. Imagine no......Read the rest...
Categories: ozarks, appreciation,
Form: Prose
The Mountains of Arkansas
...The sun raises up over the ridge The sky shines a multitude of colors Pink with a tinge of purple That only lasts for a few precious moments Some mornings the clouds Come down from the sky ......Read the rest...
Categories: ozarks, animal, beautiful, mountains, nature,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Canoeing On the Current River
...Our riverbank launch at dawn where dense forest chills the breeze, where cottonwood leaves flutter like wings, and weeping willow penumbras tease. Glistening, rippling turquoise water churns. ......Read the rest...
Categories: ozarks, allegory, dream, extended metaphor,
Form: Pastoral
Much Larger
...5/30/22 "Much Larger" Getting smarter Working harder Open to barter Occasionally taking a charter Nearby a harbor Sometimes wearing armor Buying crops from farmers When necessary I display a......Read the rest...
Categories: ozarks, dark, deep, life, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
Work In Progress 10
...And a good morning to you.Today I have a lot to get done so will concentrate on telling you about Lorsie which was the name I called her. If I get my chores done we will talk later tonight. Lorsie ......Read the rest...
Categories: ozarks, home, leaving,
Form: Free verse
Ozark
...The Ozark Mountains stretch across Five states in the U.S. – Missouri, Oklahoma, Kansas, Arkansas and yes, Some parts of Illinois are, too, Considered in the mix. To city folk, the Ozarks C......Read the rest...
Categories: ozarks, places,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Heated Discussions and Disappointment
...Ozarks are brutally hot Heated discussions and disappointment. August is a potential fireball Backs are sticking to leather car seats. Animals escaping from the west arrive daily Grass is drie......Read the rest...
Categories: ozarks, summer,
Form: Free verse

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