By jivepoet on December 24, 2009
Is she waiting in the snowfall of an unseen distant plateau, That still lives today on Christmas cards all packed up now? Is that so? Would the lamps that light the pathways put a glow upon her face? Are these images of fantasies all gone without a trace? Is she staring from the window of [...]
Posted in Poems & Stories | Tagged Cease, Christmas, Clouds, cry, dark, destiny, falling, Fantasies, Fog, Frog, Grass, Happiness, house, Images, kiss, Lad, Lost, night, Romance, Sky, snow, soul-mate, Sun, Tea, Tree
By Lou in texas on December 24, 2009
there once was a man named chuck he drove coast to coast in his truck he road through hill’s and cow trails just to make a buck. over the road and in the snow he traveled and traveled where most wouldn’t go many a day’s and nite’s he would drive till his butt grew so [...]
Posted in Poems & Stories | Tagged Butt, Friend, Hill, snow, Thighs, Travel
By tom on July 31, 2009
Autumn has arrived. Trees decked out in Joseph’s coat Reds, yellows, orange, rust, green And every hue in between. Leaves dancing and fluttering in the wind Drop to earth In a dizzy spin. This wonderful display Is short lived. Winters winds will soon move in, Earth takes on a Different glow With the arrival of [...]
Posted in Poems & Stories | Tagged Autumn, Blow, Bun, cold, dancing, dream, Earth, Fire, For you, Frozen Toes, Glows, Hot Toddy, Hue, Hurry Home, joy, night, Prayer, Prayers, Reds, scream, Shoes, sleep, Snooze, snow, Stairs, Toast, Toes, Tree, Trees, war, White Snow, Yellows
By tom on July 30, 2009
Fantasize Let your thoughts go wild Bring back your memories, Your thoughts as a child. Ride the range on a bucking bronc’ Drive a race car at Daytona Park. Climb snow covered mount Kilimanjaro. Fly high aloft in a gas filled balloon Going higher and higher almost touching the moon. Sail the [...]
Posted in Poems & Stories | Tagged child, cycle, Earth, Loon, memories, Moon, Pleasure, pleasures, Sea, snow, Truth
By tom on July 30, 2009
Fortunate Have you ever considered? How fortunate you are To gaze at the sky And see a star, And say to yourself I wonder how many there are? To walk through a garden And smell the rose. Skip through dewy grass In your bare feet and toes Before the sun arose? Take long walks [...]
Posted in Free Poems | Tagged Ash, Boat, cold, eagle, empty, eyes, Feet, Fish, Grass, High In The Sky, Moon, night, Prey, Rose, Sea, Sky, snow, Soar, Sun, Swoop, Toes, war, world
By PrairiePoems on June 24, 2009
The pheasants are starving in four foot af snow! With Northerners blowing, at twenty below! Out there in the Soil Bank, wher snowdrifts are deep. The pheasants are lying, for- ever to sleep! The news came from Washington, right from the wire- “Feed-the-poor-pheasants!” like a prairie on fire! John found a pheasant, its last strength [...]
Posted in Poems & Stories | Tagged Ash, Blow, breeze, Breezes, Eden, eyes, Fire, Rain, Sad, Seeds, sin, Sky, sleep, snow, spring, Sun, war
By PrairiePoems on June 24, 2009
I first called this poem “Yound Days” But one night when I swept the school house out I found this on her tablet written before she left fifty years ago Last Night of Seventeen So take it for the Title She wrote the name for my poem fifty years ago When prairie winds blow as [...]
Posted in Poems & Stories | Tagged alone, Blow, Dad, Daddy, Ears, girl, house, night, Poem, School, sin, sleep, snow, Sun, Tea, Tree
By PrairiePoems on June 24, 2009
My brother J.O. Christianson left home at seventeen, went to Minneapolis. He went to St. Paul Farm school college for forty years and with the superintendent for thirty years. Was Knighted by the King of Sweden for starting the foreign student exchange. John had been out here at HOME, in Dakota, and head seen the [...]
Posted in Poems & Stories | Tagged Blow, Brother, Bun, change, Christian, Crowd, Ears, Eden, Fate, Freedom, Gold, heart, Lain, lies, memories, Moving, night, School, snow, Stacks, Storms, Sun, Sunset
By PrairiePoems on June 24, 2009
The SNOW came down, an, STARTED TO BLOW- It was bad as a blizzard could be! But the SALE was on, and he HAD TO GO- HE WAS “Lewis of the Double E”! The heifers were all square and fat- But only the show was free- For they sold em all to the “Stetson Hat”- [...]
Posted in Poems & Stories | Tagged alone, Blow, Ears, Hats, Match, Rain, Rainbow, snow
By PrairiePoems on June 17, 2009
MY HEART……is not in the City; With its crowds moveing where no one knows- It is out in the hills of the PRAIRIE: With their strong SWEEPING WINDS- And their SNOWS! Its out where the stacks of the harvest Once stood in the trail of the “Boo”- Who came humming along with his PITCHFORK; And….stayed [...]
Posted in Poems & Stories | Tagged Bloom, Blow, child, Crowd, dream, dreams, Flower, flowers, Gold, heart, Hill, Lad, memories, Moon, Moonlight, night, Poem, Rose, Sea, snow, spring, Stacks, Stories, Sun, Sunset, Tea
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