Short Minnesota Poems

from minnesota
a showy ladys slipper
beautiful orchid...

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the twins,world champions
the fans,go bezerk,legal
the ball bounces,too...

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New fallen snow
City awakes untouched
Footsteps never seen





Minnesota
12/28/12...

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Higglety Pigglety Pop
	Is my favorite soda
Sold at the corner shop
	Bottled in Minnesota....

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snow flurries on plaid
changing to a cool pattern
— green, blue and bright stars

11/19/2018...

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Rainbow ribbons shadow white sofa, walls,
curtains. Pink rose and white snow.
Cockapoo’s desert tan.
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US   poet Robert Bly
brought Neruda's verse to the public eye
His himself with poetry 'politique'
of Minnesota made him tick...

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digesting ballet —
prime rib and bacon, waltzing
Nutcracker taters
Tchaikovsky suite crescendo
fork and knife tenderizing

12/25/2021...

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lambast us baby!
strut your bombastic vocals!
forever.....    your         stage




-tribute to Freddie Mercury.....from stage-left, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 1977...

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Monday night in my blue flesh
Shouldn’t complain it’s cold
Minnesota will be much crueler
and much warmer too
cozied up with the grandson crew
and their cockapoo

11/14/2022...

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endless snow
is this minnesota?
makes me think of Laura Ingalls Wilders stories
of the hard winters
so I get out my books and lose myself again
in my childhood
a good winter dream...

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we are one people!
earth belongs to all people!
equal rights for all!


Tribute to Hubert Humphrey, from my great State of Minnesota....I shook his hand once.
(my 350th poem on the soup!)...

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A little girl from Minnesota.
Got filled up on chocolate soda.
She cried to her mummy.
I hurt in my tummy.
Mum said, I think you've had your quota.


For the State Limerick Contest
July 19, 2019...

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Rorie the rock star mouse ordered a big electric guitar
He was in a band in Wisconsin, but was Minnesota far?
Many begged him to join them, was one band enough?
Rorie’s head exploded with pride, he felt like hot stuff....

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Happy as a Songbird


days of hard rain fell
yellow tinged silence followed
birds rejoiced in song



....couple weeks ago, it rained hard for days here in Minnesota,
movement ceased for a few days...then life renewed!...

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Her pink house boat is the talk of the folks of Minnesota Bay
Some of the delighted women of Minneapolis said, “hey! hey!”
I think it might be too girly, said her brother Billie Bee Boy.
But it gives lots of us a feeling of happiness, bringing us joy...

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seeking warmth of blanket
and sun, Minnesota coated
with snow and ice. cockapoo
paws the window, stretches

near the door…raucous barks
at footfall on the front porch.
father of his master, a stranger
not yet accepted into the pack.

12/23/2021...

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Blizzard of seventy-eight
Paralyzed USA’s middle state of Indiana
Not as awful as the great blizzard of 1888
Which dropped fifty inches of snow in three days

Even blizzard alley
Minnesota, North and South Dakota
Did not suffer from these two record
Monster blizzards...

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I am beginning to wonder about Trump. Every candidate 
should have to take the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality 
Inventory (MMPI), Wechsler Bellevue, Stanford Benet, 
Miller Analogies and Kuder Interest Test. This would prove 
just how normal each one of the candidates are.
Jim Horn...

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Two frisky kits
Enjoying each other
About the same size
Being watched by their mother

I used a telescopic lens
For I did not want to get carried away
By a super protective mother
Who might have chased me far that day

The kids had no idea
They are being photographed
I secretly named them
Minnesota and McRaft...

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branch        burdened with snow

           long winter

      we    wait





“Storm of the Century”  Minneapolis, Minnesota
12/11/10
5:10 pm
“Roads Closed”…… City Plows pulled off the streets! “White-Out” Blizzard! I walked ½ block 
to the indoor track and it was like walking towards a runaway freight- train!...

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angry inhale deep
venting smoldering tantrum 
animals fleeing


2/4/2020



Mount St. Helens in Washington erupts, causing a massive avalanche and killing 57 people on this day in 1980. Ash from the volcanic eruption fell as far away as Minnesota.

I lived only 235 miles south from Mount St. Helens when it erupted....

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afterglow of Minnesota,
i can see

my bare toes, oh how they’ve grown;
their nails…who knew

of merriment, sickness, nibble of pup.
‘hello feet…wuzzup?’*

1/3/2022
Bite Size Poem #31
Sponsor: Line Gauthier

*wassup (wah-zup) - Informal US exclamation meaning “what’s up”

**cold in Georgia no where near the Minnesota cold...

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Lightning throbs

Sending rain pelting
Through me

Joyously soaking my soul

Home now-
Clothes hanging on iron glyphs;
Soon to adorn my garden

The sun peaks out-
Bright red pinecones are forming
 Like little green
Tipped clubs on the Norway Pine
Outside my window;
My heart entwined with the
Budding pinecones

Absorbing hope...

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Idea of profit hope for snowflake March and November rain. Are you leading back to Rapid City or Pine Ridge?
I was in the halfway house in Mitchell. Did you visit the Corn Palace or the doll shop?
I heard you are in Aberdeen. I am still your dream? 
Symmetrical preponderance stopwatch courthouse cuckoo clock 
Spitting on gravestones North Minnesota...

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