Short Appalachian Poems

Short Appalachian Poems. Below are examples of the most popular short poems about Appalachian by PoetrySoup poets. Search short poems about Appalachian by length and keyword.


Seven Trails Cross Damascus

I'm never going to see
the great rhododendron giants
of Virginia
or yell"Hey Bear",
on the Appalachian Trail
seven trails cross Damascus
not one to Jerusalem.


Premium Member crystalline

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        thinks uv yourn 
celtic appalachian sylph
   tramp’n through thuh
   pennsyltucky prairie's 
          verde sedge 

                 yep
Form: Imagism

Premium Member Appalachian Trail

long after midnight

he points out the big dipper...

grass for our pillows






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for Charles Henderson's Contest: "No Contest Contest"
/resubmitted for PD's Contest "Any haiku will do"
Form: Haiku

Premium Member Designer Cowboy Boots

  
     JD Vance, proud of his Appalachian roots
     Likes to wear (designer) cowboy boots

        Gravitates toward that ‘Man of the People,’ Tucker Carlson
        The two of them attacking conservatism ~ political arson
Form: Clerihew

Premium Member Moon Shine Trilogy (Haiku Series)

fresh Moonshine
hidden jars in barn
country road

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sweet corn from the field
natural grain distillation
liquid vapor flows

~~~~~~~~~~~:::~~~~~~~~~~~

mountain still brewing
transforming barley and rye
Appalachian!

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Form: Haiku


October

Leaves of the Appalachian hills.
Turning red and orange.
Burnt burgundy into smoky dreams.
Rainy days for you and me.

Is this not America?


October is warm this day.
Son playing the guitar
on the front porch swing. 
Ones on his way! home to stay.

Fall is for lovers who missed 
one another all summer.
Come back together again.
Till the spring.

Inbreeding

hey he was him
and she was her
Appalachian
wading

i found not a pond
and not a pool
but nothin we
could not

breath and or swim
and since it's all
relatively
speaking

she is my third
cousin removed
by my second aunt's
uncle's first university

room
mate so
what does
that make me?

other then
the shallow
end of the gene
puddle
Form:

Peaceful Reminders

Appalachian trails in the new morning’s dawn
This path today takes me past a haven for dear
My eyes have a treat as they witness a fawn
While my feet step quietly, for her to not hear

My heart, it has stopped, or so it now seems
As the beauty of nature surrounds here, my eyes
For awake I am, yet, it all plays like a dream
As peace finds my heart and my inner self sighs
Form: Rhyme

Peaceful Reminders

Appalachian trails in the new morning’s dawn
This path today takes me past a haven for dear
My eyes have a treat as they witness a fawn
While my feet step quietly, for her to not hear

My heart, it has stopped, or so it now seems
As the beauty of nature surrounds here, my eyes
For awake I am, yet, it all plays like a dream
As peace finds my heart and my inner self sighs
Form: Quatrain

Premium Member 'long hern trek

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        i watched this her
          tramp barefoot 
                'pon 
        appalachian stone
                 root
                 rock
          brown cracked
             shoots uv
                grass

      kiss mine boo-boos
                better

               tiz true
           
                 well
                 the "watched part"
                   ')

Appalachian Trail Walk

showers of castanets 
on a tin roof
a stop-over for the night 
        on the longest hike

a bushel of owls 
in each drip of rain 
   aftershocks of mice nibbling through
the wires of a sleepless mind

listening 
through ear shaped microphones

pigeons scrabble overhead
       then clatter as they take off

the rain softens toward dawn
to a ten second splish
       
        time to move on

Appalachian Sister

Appalachian Sister 

Wherever I roam, 
You go too.
A piece of home,
Follows.

A smile, a song,
The sound of an owl.
Those Appalachian mountains,
Live inside of me.

Your laughter,
The white water creeks.
Your voice,
The whispering winds.

Intertwined,
In my memories.
I think of one,
I think of the other.

Sisters,
And mountains.
Part of me,
We are never apart.

By: Darlene Doll Smith
Form: Rhyme

This Appalachian Town

THIS APPALACHIAN TOWN

up on the hill
the view of the ohio
river is magnificent
in the rising sun.
below a rusted barge
is puffing against
the current
working hard
to meet its
destination.
this is the rigid life
of this small
Appalachian town:
fighting the current
or stepping in
and drowning.
everyday choices
have to be made.

the barge chugs along.

Copyrighted
June 27, 2011
Jim Brewer
© Jim Brewer  Create an image from this poem.

Premium Member A Tender Moment

Emerald pines and jade laurels Crisp, cool air misting beyond the range Of peaks that ascend to meet The clear, indigo heavens complete With bleached snowy puffs of cotton Drifting into silhouettes, characters Both soft and yearning – floating Into the horizon where they play Dancing through the impression Of a peaceful, tender moment God’s artistic hand pressing down Against the Appalachian mountains

Premium Member unto Yahweh call

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     Cast not to me the rose colored
                hearts poets blurt

          or thoughts of coolness
           from Appalachian falls

               or drinks that fog
                     mine mind

            Just fastened hands
                  bowed heads
                     and mawz
                         unto
                      Yahweh
                         call




*Uncle James will miss you Brandon !
Form: Elegy

Premium Member Long Walk

Long Walk

dark silhouettes of maple trees
etched against the evening sky
a whiteish haze in the distance
dulls the sharp outlines
of the Smoky Mountains
my time on the
Appalachian Trail has been
long and arduous
my soul aches 
for home
my body wants a soft bed
but I have miles to go
to reach the southern terminus
at Springer Mountain, Georgia
I put one foot 
in front of the other
as I trudge on
just another through
hiker finishing
a long walk
Form: Ekphrasis

Premium Member A Thought for Labor Day

   Is man but a workhorse
      to be slowly ground to death

   To slice his limbs to ribbons
      on a slaughterhouse machine

   To breathe in sewer muck and mire
      or hurl on tractor-trailers never-ending tires       

   To toil in anonymity on a thankless assembly line
       or inhale the toxic fumes of an Appalachian coal mine… 

   Young man, learn a skilled trade or train for a profession 
       Life does not have to be misery and depression
Form: Couplet

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