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Small Town Poems - Poems about Small Town

Small Town Poems - Examples of all types of poems about small town to share and read. This list of new poems is composed of the works of modern poets of PoetrySoup. Read short, long, best, and famous examples for small town.
Premium Member Waupaca Awakens
...‘Waupaca Awakens’ The thin ice cracks As daylight breaks, Along the still waters Of a chain of lakes Melting snow and slush Both lapping the pier, Letting the bluegill know A new season i......Read the rest...
Categories: small town, animal, bird, morning, nature,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Urban Legend
... *Murder most foul. Rod Serling, Stephen King or Ellery Queen? Picturesque place on the edge of nowhere, small town American life. Suddenly subject to media glare, reports of the mayor's missi......Read the rest...
Categories: small town, murder, mystery,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Dreamer's Lake
...You are about to enter another dimension, a dimension not only of sight and sound but of mind. A wondrous land whose boundaries are those of imagination; Your next step- The Twi-Light Zone. Someti......Read the rest...
Categories: small town, death, dream,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member A Limerick for Saint Patrick's Day, 2024
...A young newlywed colleen from Clones* Surprised her husband with freshly baked scones. Said the hubby, named Keith, "Dear, I don't mean to beef, But my teeth are more suited to biscuits than ston......Read the rest...
Categories: small town, humor,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Train Tale
...This small town is where I was born The train comes through at two in the morn As I near my last day One last wish if you may Engineer let me blow that horn......Read the rest...
Categories: small town, home, jobs,
Form: Limerick



Poor Boy
... A stick for a gun a dead frog known as ‘Old Pete’ childhood is conquered ......Read the rest...
Categories: small town, poetry,
Form: Senryu
Premium Member The Fastest Girl in Town
... Jane was the fastest girl in her small town By age sixteen she'd been passed all around Jane went dancing one night Drank way too much, got tight Woke up next morn ~ a woma......Read the rest...
Categories: small town, growing up, woman,
Form: Limerick
Poems about Science 3: Evolution
...POEMS ABOUT SCIENCE 3: EVOLUTION Peers by Michael R. Burch These thoughts are alien, as through green slime smeared on some lab tech’s brilliant slide, I grope, positioning my bright osc......Read the rest...
Categories: small town, bird, fish, fishing, insect,
Form: Rhyme
Poems about Science 1: Climate
...Climate Change Haiku by Michael R. Burch late November: climate skeptics scoff but the geese no longer migrate. The King of Beasts in the Museum of the Extinct by Michael R. Burch Th......Read the rest...
Categories: small town, earth, earth day, environment,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Gilded Crosses?
... Gilded Crosses? By Mark D. Stucky Shiny icons gleaming on altars? And hanging from necks on gilded chains? No. Not back then… Not golden, not metal,......Read the rest...
Categories: small town, dark, death, easter, hope,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Movie Stars Secret Hiding Place
...He rented a little shack way out in the woods in Mt. Royce Where no one would hear his guitar playing or his voice He had never been to a small- town gas station before. He had no idea the phone c......Read the rest...
Categories: small town, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme
BraveHeart
... You thought you were a big wheel in a big town But your just a small wheel in a small town We just keep rolling along when you're not around Please put your right foot forward Think of how easy......Read the rest...
Categories: small town, angel, butterfly, environment, surreal,
Form: Free verse
Post-Morden Juke Box Experiences
... There are time capsules in the rural Mid-West, not retro constructs, but temporal dislocations that remain as was, for lack of a reason to be other. Small town restaurants are steeped in a c......Read the rest...
Categories: small town, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Murder of Cherry Creek Town
...Sounds of a Day in the Past Cherry Creek was a thriving small town Children played on swings up and down. They screamed with delight and why not? Today with no school, so homework forg......Read the rest...
Categories: small town, abuse, break up, environment,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Paradise
...Where is paradise? I found it in Michigan beautiful small town......Read the rest...
Categories: small town, beautiful, travel,
Form: Senryu

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