Short Utah Poems

Going to Utah
In busy sorting center
Fallen on the floor...

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open holes of golf
the ladies aloft and sparse
downstairs a buffet...

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rain droplets stir hope
but gray clouds refuse to burst . . .
our yellowed back yard...

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NEWS FLASH

get a load of this
utah backward is a sneeze
forgive me utes, please

Dave Austin...

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Quaker Oats

If pure grain oats grown
In the mountains of Utah
Is it Quaker Oats

by James Edward Lee Sr.
10/17/17...

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utah
camping on a blue mesa
human noise
emptying into  
evening stillnes


Published - January, 2016 - Haiku Society Journal...

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a breathtaking sight
Devil's Tower Wyoming
from Close Encounters

a breathtaking view
Valley of the Gods Utah
featured in Airwolf...

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Amongst seeds of words
sophistication resides,
this Utah lady
spreads her light across the globe...
with friendship personified.

© Harry J Horsman 2012...

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Monument Valley,
you whisper going through

HOPING IT WON’T HEAR 
HOPING IT WON’T HEAR

Whatever you say 
—never to be enough

(Duchesne Utah: June, 2008)...

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A young girl with ants in her pants
Was doing a strange kind of dance
We yelled, "Take 'em off!"
She snarled back a scoff:
"Its Utah! That's nowhere near France!!...

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When in Utah, fat Patty took note
on the surface of Salt Lake, folks float.
So she took a great jump,
but she sank like a lump,
and her splash could have capsized a boat!

July 18, 2019...

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To write and wander
among the spires

Her mystery ancient,
each look inspired

The sand the measure
of all between

What’s in my soul
—and unforeseen

(Monument Valley Utah: September, 2021)...

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Forests of green 
  call beyond the darkness

Where rivers flow
and verdant colors rhyme

Our hopes and wishes
dancing in the meadows

Calling us to a new
—and better time

(Kanab Utah: July, 2019)...

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Nearby a desert, trees and peace both flourish in my city, Pleasant Grove.


Written Oct. 3, 2016 For the Where I Live One Liner Contest of Silent One. 
*Pleasant Grove is a small city of Utah, USA, not far from capital, Salt Lake City...

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Our love has gone from
hard cover to soft

The words between us typed,
no longer scribed

The moments counted,
          that once were thrown breathless in the wind

Our feelings stilted
—with words to just describe

(Kanab Utah: July, 2019)...

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The road went straight on
With the ribbon drifting as a heavenly song
They call it the “Road to Heaven” going up high
Stop and look at how it leaves the earth for the sky
So in your wandering take a look to see
I80 in Wyoming in Utah you’ll be.

© Paul Warren Poetry...

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In Utah, it gets downright chilly
So people are prone to act silly
The Mormons will faint
If you ain't a Saint
They don't have what God gave to Tilli? *

*Tilli Buchanan was arrested and charged
with child abuse for removing her T-shirt inside
her own home whilst helping her husband shift
drywall.  ...

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Your mountains and prairies are safe from me,
it’s only your roads I want
89 in Utah, 191 in Montana,
route 50 cutting Nevada in half
I’m not looking to stay or upset your order,
like New Yorkers and Californians do
I just want to ride to tomorrow and back
—the view and the memories my home

(Dewey Montana: September, 1996)...

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Andrea lives in a city
In which every season is pretty!
But on a bad snow day,
She drives on the freeway
And curses because it’s so %#itty. (small edit for the kiddies)

**on our Utah license plates it says 
"The Greatest Snow on Earth" (yeah, right)

For PD's Contest
(After I posted this, I realized, gosh, the title
really does work because few things are as 
slick as a Utah road in winter.)...

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Hold the beauty of the desert
it's wind cold 
pristine
blanketing wide expanse 
reckoning 
awake to drifted thoughts 
blown endless across plateaus silent far 
where distant dreams painted in the sand
draw close with longing 
like lips across a rose 
eager for the touch of soft deep colors 
well defined in quiet self repose
or the purple of the sky 
now stayed together 
the hazed sun orange red against....

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Two shooting stars gone within a year or so of each other
With a fire so strong they traveled together far and near
Simple folks with so much love to give
Cherished memories we all shared
From Kansas to Utah to New York to Arizona
The road was always open and their hearts are now free 
Carry on Norman and Dorothy 
We will see you again someday soon.

Dedicated to Normon Spencer and Dorothy Grasby...

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dismissed ethics allegations over 18 years ago
how winter is my 2002 Olympic
how sad is my song 
my soul my songs 
taken in the black and used 
to be a slave of money makers 
the scandal of Utah never to be told
gets an Distinguished Service Award
how dose your slaving go 
very well very well indeed  
where are my people 
has the government
frighten you into kitten 
or just willing subjects 
of the jungle beat...

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80's oldsmobile wagon full of mormons
traveling at five under the speed limit. 

a turtlenecked jesus behind the wheel
draws magnetically all pyrite from the 
rural hills of zion utah. 

gold so much glorious gold
and you can have it to.

just turn your tv dial to the trinity
broadcasting network, 

set some plastic fruit out on your
coffee table as an offering

and send your prayer request
in to Plano Texas....

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(this happened a week ago Friday to a fellow teacher and friend
of mine named Phyllis. I thought it was quite a story and she 
got on the tv news in Utah)

Late
night as
her husband
drove them through an
intersection, there
came barreling at them
a drunk with his truck lights off!
He ripped off their car’s front end at
the point where their feet touched the floorboard.
In one sliced second, Phyllis missed sure death....

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When I called with a message one time,

you would think I"d committed a crime!

Just for doing my job,

I got screamed at by "Rob,"

so for me, Redford's name is now slime.



Sept. 14, 2017 for Kevin Shaw's  Name Dropper Limerick Contest

Note: This is based on my one telephone encounter with Robert Redford when I worked for an answering service that served him in Utah. Please see About Poem above for more details!...

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