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spying momo on the Missouri River

...Momo blended in well with the trees moved fast considering he was walking in brush we followed this big-foot-like-creature down the Missouri River It was 1971, we knew he was an anomaly. Tried to......Read the rest...

Categories: missouri river, animal,
Form: Free verse

My Valley

...My Valley Tucked away in the north-central part of the state, about ten miles or so from where the clear and slow-moving water of the Grand River mixes with the quickly rolling mud of the Missouri......Read the rest...

Categories: missouri river, poetry,
Form: Haibun

Gateway Town

...Gateway town, Mississippi and Missouri river flooding confluence, with its celebration of manifest destiny, its looming, iconic archway. Stainless westward marker, its culture flowed southward for ......Read the rest...

Categories: missouri river, allusion, city, class, longing,
Form: Rhyme

Dignity: of Earth and Sky

...I love art and I love history….and I love how each one is transcended when, to my joy and utter delight, the two of them are blended . On a bluff overlooking the Missouri River in South Dakota st......Read the rest...

Categories: missouri river, inspiration,
Form: Rhyme

Oh Omaha

...Oh! Omaha what with your Woodman Tower Not covered what it's higher First National Bank As the mighty Mo! Missouri River separates Nebraska and Iowa Two strong mighty buildings that to......Read the rest...

Categories: missouri river, analogy, city, community,
Form: Light Verse

Long Range Weather Forecast

...October hums the chilly tune of a lyric, November croons to cold winds from the north, When winter will sweep suddenly eastward Blanketing the Black Hills with a coat of white-- Icy snow l......Read the rest...

Categories: missouri river, memory, seasons, snow, weather,
Form: Free verse

Never More Lovely

...Missouri River with a briskness that raises my hair Sprinkling of snow, but nothing frozen yet I take a deep whiff of woodsy gladness, Feeling more in touch with God than ever The earth world h......Read the rest...

Categories: missouri river, nature,
Form: Imagism

Bergfried

...I. The Settlement Hickory bark bluffs at the blend of two rivers. Gasconade waters buttered with the muddy Missouri. A lookout......Read the rest...

Categories: missouri river, adventure, allusion, metaphor, myth,
Form: Narrative

Wanderlust

...Sometimes you need to wander Without a cause Without purpose Without a means Without a reason for knowing why Sometimes you need to wander With lust With purposeful lust With a need to mo......Read the rest...

Categories: missouri river, adventure, birth, fear, home,
Form: Free verse

Sacagawea

...Born the daughter of a Lemhi Shoshone chief she was captured by the Hidatsa in her teens. And sold to the Mandan Missouri River tribe where she met and married Toussaint Charbonneau. A French ......Read the rest...

Categories: missouri river, adventure, celebrity, history, imagery,
Form: Blank verse

Diamonds of My Mind

...-The Diamonds of My Mind- Even if you call my name this is not me you see looking back. I see the reflection of the someone who needs convincing. The diamonds of my mind remember me fro......Read the rest...

Categories: missouri river, age,
Form: Free verse

Soul Stance River - 22

...The Great Falls of the northern Plains is actually a chain of five seperate waterfalls varying in height and majesty extending over 12 miles, they also confirm that the right river was chosen, we ......Read the rest...

Categories: missouri river, adventure,
Form: Epic

The Indigenous - the True American

... Apache, the Ndee, "the people" of Arizona and other States Blackfoot, the Siksika, whose painted red faces we can relate Cheyenne, the Tsitsistas, meaning relatives of the Cree Dakota ......Read the rest...

Categories: missouri river, joy,
Form: Abecedarian

A Matched Pair

...I frown into the mirror. What happened? Yesterday, we were newlyweds.” "Fifty years ago," he says. “You lost half a century.” There's my husband, slouching in the recliner, thinning hair, ......Read the rest...

Categories: missouri river, humor, marriage, nostalgia,
Form: Free verse

Growing Up, La - Part 2

...- - Chapter 2: Adult Responsibility (With Some Breaks) - - By ten years old, no weekends off, Or Saturday cartoons, Although I did have cash to spend, I felt my life in ruins. I dusted......Read the rest...

Categories: missouri river, life, , cute,
Form: Rhyme

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