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Tennessee Poems - Poems about Tennessee

Tennessee Poems - Examples of all types of poems about tennessee 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 tennessee.
Premium Member Marx on the Hudson
... They used to call it the Empire State. But the empire isn't doing too great. Democrats in power, big ideas they plan. Too bad for the middle class and the forgotten man. Low-income high rise ......Read the rest...
Categories: tennessee, new york, political,
Form: Lyric



Premium Member FBI ARLINGTON HEIGHTS ILLINOIS CIVIL RIGHTS DIVISION CRISIS TEAM OF CONFIDENTIAL HUMAN SOURCES
...CRISIS TEAM : HELLO WE ARE HERE TO HELP AGENT BROWN: I AWAKEN EVERY NIGHT IN TOTAL FEAR FOR MY SAFETY AFTER WEARING WIRES PREGNANT BUYING WEAPONS AND DRUGS FEARING FOR MINE AND MY CHILDREN LIVES ......Read the rest...
Categories: tennessee, america, analogy, anxiety, forgiveness,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member Dark Eclipse Takes the Kitty Fall
...It was strange the cars, like stand alones, all unoccupied, dotting the dark wet stained streets, the moon licking puddles like a stray dog thirsty checking its reflection for a friend, ye......Read the rest...
Categories: tennessee, dark, moon, sun,
Form: Free verse
Lyrical Mash Up
...You question was disassociating essential? Dire Straits, your presence? 2 dang influential Press play, the beat drops. It was all a dream. I feel it, just like heavy d up in the limousine Stor......Read the rest...
Categories: tennessee, goodbye, love, love hurts,
Form: Rhyme
Shiloh
...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 va......Read the rest...
Categories: tennessee, war,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Song Titles A Differant Take
...Who wrote the book of love Why do fools fall in love You Can't Hurry Love You can if you're making it Does Blondie's Sunday I Don't Know What Love Is Ask someone who knows Love Me Like A Hurr......Read the rest...
Categories: tennessee, song,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Iowa City
...(A bit of fun for Thomas W. Case - I think he lives in Iowa) Hawkeye pride burns bright in Iowa City, the place where Tennessee Williams learned to curse. Iowa City hosts the 4th of J......Read the rest...
Categories: tennessee, community, food, identity, paris,
Form: Free verse
Leaving a book incompletely read tantamount to being sacrilegious
...Preface: On February 4, 1861, the seven states that had seceded by this point convened and created the Confederate States of America under the leadership of Jefferson Davis. Just under two m......Read the rest...
Categories: tennessee, absence, america, anxiety, baptism,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member cake and steak
...The cake was sitting too close to the steak The steak was done well, which was a mistake The cake began melting, and the candles fell off Worse yet, said grandma, your uncle gave it a cough We ......Read the rest...
Categories: tennessee, 2nd grade, 3rd grade,
Form: Rhyme
When I’m in Heaven
... I think when I’m in heaven, I’ll put my feet on a soft cloud. Pour some Tennessee whisky, and read poetry to the crowd. I’ll hug my dad a few times, I’ll kiss my mom on both her cheeks. Sit......Read the rest...
Categories: tennessee, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member mountain tops
...spring mornings cold chill snowy hazy mountain tops Tennessee visit......Read the rest...
Categories: tennessee, travel,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member Ode to Chuck Barry
...The Father of Rock and Roll was not Elvis. It was Chuck Barry, wild man from Chicago He was the rhythm and blues king His guitar solos and showmanship are legend. Today we still hear some of hi......Read the rest...
Categories: tennessee, music,
Form: Free verse
Darlin
...She loves the ballparks, and goes to Symphany halls. She loves God but not religion. She cusses and curses, gets drunk on sailors, yet her heart’s an open daisy. In Kentucky they call her ‘d......Read the rest...
Categories: tennessee, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Fiddler Cats
...Fiddler cats played bluegrass music down in Tennessee Tapping their toes triple time said the Green She Bee. Hoe down dancers came out of the woods to do a two step Bluegrass music gave them extra......Read the rest...
Categories: tennessee, 1st grade, 2nd grade,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Wild Birds
...A woman on her daily walk was serenaded by a cardinal, a blue jay, and a Carolina wren— or so she thought. Imagine how surprised she would have been to learn it was I, a mockingbird perched on a l......Read the rest...
Categories: tennessee, bird,
Form: Personification

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