Nashville Poems - Poems about Nashville

Buckle of Bible Belt corroded...Read the rest...

It’s Thursday evening, almost nine foot-tap, fiddle, and banjo time with juke-box tales of love’s romance the county jail, a second chance for bourbon belles or backroad trucks mail-box motels, living on luck from one horse towns to city bars acoustic sounds...Read the rest...

She sat, caressing her tiny gold cross. Then, a swift bullet, and into heaven, With Angel’s wings, she had crossed. Her Easter Bunny, does not know yet, That she won’t hold him again, so he Sleeps in peace and does...Read the rest...

A Nashville No No weapons strategy turned into a travesty then a tragedy from window would shoot she was a cake full of fruit never gave a hoot heard that she fasted way into school had blasted for a while lasted will do a favor after...Read the rest...

These are poems for the victims of the Nashville Covenant School shootings. Nashville Covenant Call to Love by Michael R. Burch Our hearts are broken today for our children's small bodies lie broken; let us gather them up, as we...Read the rest...

As springs’ budding blossoms emerge the raptors glide mercilessly. —Michael R. Burch I wrote this haiku-like poem on 3-27-2023 after the Nashville Covenant school shooting massacre. Keywords/Tags: Nashville, Nashville Covenant, Nashville Covenant Presbyterian School, school shooting, massacre, children,...Read the rest...

Nashville buckle on Bible Belt sin city...Read the rest...

Wave goodbye to this side We took flight Moving up to the sky To a higher height Coming closer to the clouds And away from the Earth About half and an hour To the concrete turf Onto the runway Was landed the plane It...Read the rest...

there's a place to go the lights are much brighter there if you're that crazy you can blow up an RV and let the whole world stare...Read the rest...

Nashville and Andromeda by Michael R. Burch I have come to sit and think in the darkness once again. It is three a.m.; outside, the world sleeps . . . How nakedly now and unadorned the surrounding hills expose themselves to the...Read the rest...

Tornado's rains matter Decent folks' lives They shatter...Read the rest...

My girl and I we headed down to Nashville. With a box of songs and all my childhood dreams. We knocked on a lot of doors that didn't answer. They didn't want my songs or...Read the rest...

She's here even if you can not see her, She's here even if you can not hear it. She makes herself known with a crazy purr, Mia is here, and she will never quit. Jack watches us from a...Read the rest...

I Grew Up on Country Music When Rock and Roll was king My friends all liked the Beatles But, that was not my thing I liked to hear the fiddle To hear the joy burst from the strings I Grew Up...Read the rest...

The day you left My fall didn't take long I still blame you For all that went wrong And as I occupy This sofa of crumbs l've crowned myself The king of bums Because with you gone Nashville forgot about me I...Read the rest...