Porches Poems - Poems about Porches

recruited

...recruited grandson
to wash the porches, washed me....
pop brought one paper towel     ...

THE BEAUTY CALLED HIM BEAST

...[Verse 1]
They built their fences high and wide,
White porches where their secrets hide.
Laughed in rooms where he’d never belong,
Called him Beast when he walked too strong.

No shoes, no name...

the storm was not satisfied yet

...The storm sneaked into the valley
She had no forethought of what she might do
But the more she thought about the town
And what they had done to her trees
The angrier she became

These morons ha...

Picture This

...In an American primitive painting:
she fetches a pail from a well,
the bucket on her hip is full of
broken eagles,
wind turbines churn in the distance.

Corn fields are bundled together.
Drone...

Outdated

...I am not made for these modern times
Missouri mud runs through my veins
unspoiled country air flows through my lungs.
my roots are intertwined in the bedrock 
of culture, traditions and folklore ...

Remembering May Day Baskets

...May day baskets
Created with crisp doilies
Designed by excited giggling children
Filled with wrapped candies and popcorn
Left on porches
Hear those running feet?
The best part is not being caug...

A Magical Tune

...Sunflower Meadows was a place of mystical beauty, green and abloom.
That's where seven-year-old Ava lived, like laughter and spicy perfume.

Ava lived with her parents and three siblings, ...

Close

...I count the birds at my feeder,
watch them arrive only to disappear,
they are a happenstance,
they flicker in and out, die and return.

People overhear other lives,
I imagine where they go and ...

Highway Thoughts

...I like to get lost a lot.
I was driving down this highway, that you'd barely call a highway today,
and I was thinking about the yellow lines painted down the middle of it.
The middle of nowhere.
...

Party for Two

...Four batches of ice cream,
two cobblers with peaches,
some spicy beef chili;
must loosen my breeches.

Invited the neighbors,
but none of them came.
But it won’t get wasted
‘Cuz that’d be a s...

October

...
I slept and then October with stealth crept in.
I knew it when a breeze blew in. Crisp and clean,
it softly breathed and wreathed the trees...

In the south

...

In the South, where the magnolias bloom,
And the sweet tea flows in the afternoon,
Where the cicadas sing their evening tune,
And the fireflies dance beneath the moon.

The air is thick with...

In the south

...

In the South, where the magnolias bloom,
And the sweet tea flows in the afternoon,
Where the cicadas sing their evening tune,
And the fireflies dance beneath the moon.

The air is thick with...

the best Halloween

...my ghostly appearance was scary of course
brother and sister went dressed as a horse
they did not keep pace well with each other
I saw the problem was because of my brother

we traveled along ye...

have my interests changed

...I used to paint for twelve hours
and it was not enough
if I could have stayed awake longer
I would have painted for twenty-four hours
not walls or porches, canvases
I love drawing cartoons and p...

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