Vermont Poems - Poems about Vermont

The breath came in and then was gone Just as the beautious visions resonated with my dna then resolved Each inspiration paired with expiration wonderfully frames the joy of living the joy of loving the day will come to honor this beautiful life with one beautiful death...

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Rippling soil sways in ways In ways a maestro drunkenly Displays their baton, Earth in Perfect fluid Earthen motion It conducts and plays en tandem The symphony of syrup season Rings through Vermont’s silken air Each movement weaves effortless In majesty. Hickory smoke leaves the sap house The chorus of birch bark harkens Weaving through the chimney’s maw A mirror of the lone sugarmaker His jaw a practiced...

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Flannel sheets and hard cider unravel the wound ball of uncertainty that never moves to the rear view window. Must, sparkable fire wood and 9 am coffee breath slithers its arm around my waist, the only part of myself that has never learned to accept what it sees in the mirror. At the breakfast table...

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Bones unearthed so roads may go places Our people were not permitted to know, Rise up, open up, open up, The medicine is in the land, Is in the mangoes, Is in the yams, The ancestors words are on the wind, The shamanic gifts are in my bones, Our inheritance, our sense, our skill, We are blessed by the sharing, We are blessed with ancestral...

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We hold these truths to be self evident that all humans are not created equal, Some have been created with more while some have been created with less Some are rewarded in life while some are barred from success, We hold these truths to be self evident that all lives matter although some matter less. We are all entitled...

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If you find my lifeless body hanging from a tree, Know that I have too much to live for, I am not a fruit that easily grows on trees, Yet too many trees have fruit that looks like me, and too many Mamas sobbing hard on their knees, Knowing that their baby had so much to live for, Jemima is not...

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You entered this world right on time, Just what we needed and we did not know it. You were feisty, and wonderful, and funny. Many days you tested me, You challenged my resolve, You lit up more rooms than you darkened, The only rooms you darkened where the ones where you hit the switch, I expected to see your smile until my...

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cold, pine scented air  huge draft horses pull maple sap steaming vats await...

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An Old Haunt in Vermont She has been living in an old haunt; Great artist who is my favorite aunt; And we knew, Beautiful view; While having fun skiing in Vermont. Jim Horn...

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Uncertain the journey, Unsure which way to turn Jump, dig, swim, burn, Failure needs no witness, The audience gathers anyway....

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Fight Fists fly Frustration Frightening fury Flee...

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The moment I met you I knew, I would never fall in love again, When my spirit amplified, my heart felt at home, Love lifted me, I must, from this point forward, always rise in love....

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At a right angle to all that is known, Exists an unknown that remains, glimpsed through the windows of dreams, Remaining un-real until one dares to climb out the window....

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Reality has flipped upside down, Fist pounding on glass for release, What descends is not glitter nor snow, Fractured fragments of reality, Tomorrow will be created from these pieces, Today will be lived amidst the debris....

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Today is similar to yesterday, Quite possibly a preview of tomorrow, Repetition of sameness, Highlighting moments of miracle....

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