Short Tennessee Poems

tennessee opossum
little critter on a tree
fluffy yellow tail...

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Frogs sing in Japan
too bad they croak in Tennessee
it's geography...

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Frogs sing in Japan
too bad they croak in Tennessee
it's geography...

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the men are pretty
the woman,fair and larsoned
the bargain for a wife...

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spring mornings cold chill 
snowy hazy mountain tops 
Tennessee visit...

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The smell of cedars
Bring back that homesick feeling
My Tennessee home...

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Smoky mountain range 
the smell of backwoods cooking 
barbecue and pies...

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farmland with horses (Kentucky)
famous Opryland Hotel (Tennessee)
B-B-Q's galore (Alabama)...

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I can see the vibrant colors of autumn slowly beginning to mesh into these misty Tennessee hilltops.
I love this season....

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Excitingly,
at Tennessee,
me and the sea,
on a nice day.

The open sea,
see its beauty,
I'm so happy,
your here always....

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A pair of spectacles
an unsharpened pencil
an eraser, pink, shaped like Tennessee
Which of these is truth?
Answer quickly or fall to hell!...

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     Kentucky never did pull me
        Neither did Tennessee

     Kansas, best left to Dorothy
        ~ O, for the beaches of Waikiki 
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Haiku 67
	
	
	cool mist’s embrace
	Smoky Mountains hiding
	morning miasma
	
	white dogwood flowers
	Tennessee deep forest shade
	fiddleheads unfurl...

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Folding words into
a feeling
The permanence was
addictive
The creases
redefining
And the transcendence
sublime

(Nashville Tennessee: 'The Bluebird' October 1991)?...

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Are dark and spooky
water drips, bats hang around
there might be ghosts too.

Copyright © Cynthia Jones
Jan.10/2015

Ghost Adventures is about the Bell Witch in Tennessee....

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There was a rabbit in Tennessee 
His offspring numbering forty three
His manners much less than polite
Caught in a garden without an invite
Now he's on a plate you see; served as rabbit fricassee...

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My dog is so happy
People comment, who see
She prances with love for life, lovingly
Bringing smiles everywhere to be
Her name is Bella, from Tennessee
Adopted years ago, now always with me

Heidi Sands

9/30/19...

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There was a man from Tennessee, 
who claimed had more money than me-
        I thought he had lied,
        opened his mouth wide,
spent more on dental bills than he!



Female- Garnet
Size 10

December 29, 2018...

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. for public domain

Passing memory of Mr. Williams

Choose to grow a single flower,
orchid, daisy, what you will.
Pot it in a wheel barrow,
and roll it up a hill
for all to see that it may say,
"Look at me! Look at me!"...

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Melodic notes often bring
Jazz singers a bit of zing
Dancers jump in with a swing
Elvis is the Tennessee king
50’s make me want to sing
Partners slung out in a fling
Tempo from an angels’ wing
Music is a most wonderful thing...

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Harold was all bluff and guff
brusque and rough
his words sometimes pinched cheeks too hard
with his honest plain Tennessee talk
Some thought he was rude
he had no filter
he was abrupt
but not corrupt
a few of us appreciated his honesty...

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Since I left home in Memphis, Tennessee,
and landed on my face.  I woke up in this place,
and saw fishes swimming next to me. 

I found firewater, never the sun.
Is this any way to drown, in the soaking part of town?
Goodbye, good luck, your loving son.
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Shooting my classmate’s brother
(that war within a war)
I sat next to him at The Point
still targeting him sure
More than blood will flow this day
memory also dies
As honor sells its soul in vain
— each headstone marks the lie

(Maryville Tennessee: March, 1999)
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One room cabin born, wrote a song at age of five.
Dreamed big, prayed hard, had intense drive.
Sang with Porter Wagoner’s band,
Put books in millions of children’s hands,
Imagination Library, a culmination of Dolly’s Dream.
For enhancing literacy in Tennessee, she is the queen....

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Clear blue color stretched accros the skies like paint on a blank canvas
Fluffy white cloud float lazily through the fresh air
Green grass carpets the soft brown earth beneath it
Nothing but the sound of a sweet bird songs fills the air
Lost in the peace and beauty of the Tennessee Fields....

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