Countryside Poems
#countryside
Countryside poems, poetry about the land and scenery of rural areas, including fields, forests, wild flowers and animals, brooks and winding country paths. Countryside poems includes poetry about small rural villages and communities, and the countryside way of life. Also poems about farming and farm animals, and country pursuits like hiking and fishing.
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Paul S...
Paul S...
Poem Published
23rd Oct 2021 00:05am
23rd Oct 2021 00:05am
song of the villagers
music festivals are alright
in their way, but
I live here and they’re generally
in mine, okay?
in their way, but
I live here and they’re generally
in mine, okay?
#countryside
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2 Comments
Scarlett_Midwinter
Poem Published
12th Oct 2021 10:31pm
12th Oct 2021 10:31pm
Country Living
Jagged, broken homegrown skyline
Of butternut sunlight
Textured and granular
No tawdry neon for us!
We grow our own glow organically
We like our rays incendiary
Painting our days in shades
Of sumac and choke cherry
We count the years in
Ears of corn
For the monochromatic cows
And the boughs of our birches
Make no vows of silence
With their flailing and lurches
In the wuthering heights of the night
We know the time of year
By the bounce of a basketball
Like a curled-up tiger cub
By the smell...
Of butternut sunlight
Textured and granular
No tawdry neon for us!
We grow our own glow organically
We like our rays incendiary
Painting our days in shades
Of sumac and choke cherry
We count the years in
Ears of corn
For the monochromatic cows
And the boughs of our birches
Make no vows of silence
With their flailing and lurches
In the wuthering heights of the night
We know the time of year
By the bounce of a basketball
Like a curled-up tiger cub
By the smell...
#love
#home
#countryside #nature
#countryside #nature
24 reads
2 Comments
Xaphan
Poem Published
7th Oct 2021 6:39pm
7th Oct 2021 6:39pm
To The Corn Wraith's Lair
There's a path, that's forever carved, through the unyielding corn
Offering a way, of dead ahead, along which I'm inexorably drawn
Through the undulating crop it leads me astray, of that I'm aware
Hewn by those of the passed, like a track to the corn wraith's lair
Every advancing step that I take, is seemingly, on sun baked soil
Crumbling underfoot, like the very earth itself is implicitly disloyal
Onwards and upwards, or down, always below a raven on a wire
Relentlessly myopic I reach the same nadir, then forty feet higher
Nothing but the corn appears...
Offering a way, of dead ahead, along which I'm inexorably drawn
Through the undulating crop it leads me astray, of that I'm aware
Hewn by those of the passed, like a track to the corn wraith's lair
Every advancing step that I take, is seemingly, on sun baked soil
Crumbling underfoot, like the very earth itself is implicitly disloyal
Onwards and upwards, or down, always below a raven on a wire
Relentlessly myopic I reach the same nadir, then forty feet higher
Nothing but the corn appears...
#death
#countryside
#nature
#ghosts
#FeelingLost
41 reads
Scarlett_Midwinter
Poem Published
1st Oct 2021 1:43am
1st Oct 2021 1:43am
Rose Petal Wine
Toddling around in ballet shoes
And heart-shaped sunglasses
Drawing in pastel crayon blues
And watching silent goldfish dances
In a big glass bowl
While songs of old
Echo through rose pink walls
Like waterfalls
Drunk on a wine of silk-soft petals
Lavender sachets and French lace
A mild drink for one so little
Just the sight of a rose's face.
And heart-shaped sunglasses
Drawing in pastel crayon blues
And watching silent goldfish dances
In a big glass bowl
While songs of old
Echo through rose pink walls
Like waterfalls
Drunk on a wine of silk-soft petals
Lavender sachets and French lace
A mild drink for one so little
Just the sight of a rose's face.
#childhood
#countryside
#flowers
#music
#dance
30 reads
4 Comments
ANATNOM_GNIREFFUS
Poem Published
25th Sep 2021 5:32am
25th Sep 2021 5:32am
"The Old Highway"
The shiny red paint of the hood gleams in the light of passing cars
The moon rises behind me as orange as an evening sky
With the touch of a pedal the engine breathes hard
Thick rubber treads spin and the car just flies
Fiery red and orange glows the ember of my cigarette
As grey-blue smoke plumes up into the air
Going ninety-five now and passing Joliet
King of the road, no one can compare
These gritty roads rumble me like a psalm
The sight of passing tail lights renders me calm
With that steering wheel in my palms
I'm utterly...
The moon rises behind me as orange as an evening sky
With the touch of a pedal the engine breathes hard
Thick rubber treads spin and the car just flies
Fiery red and orange glows the ember of my cigarette
As grey-blue smoke plumes up into the air
Going ninety-five now and passing Joliet
King of the road, no one can compare
These gritty roads rumble me like a psalm
The sight of passing tail lights renders me calm
With that steering wheel in my palms
I'm utterly...
#countryside
#night
#peace #cars
#peace #cars
34 reads
2 Comments
Scarlett_Midwinter
Poem Published
12th Sep 2021 1:50pm
12th Sep 2021 1:50pm
White Horse Blues
Blue roan coat
Of proud horizon
For cornflowers eyes
In glad surprise
To feast on
Above four
Marzipan legs
Marshmallow velours
Kissed
And licked
By true blue flames
Creature adored
Her head adorned
With silver mane
Gold palomino fields'
Prairie grass yields
Shades of swirling piebald
Strawberry roan
Wild flower homes
In patterns of skewbald
To lodge the busy bees
...
Of proud horizon
For cornflowers eyes
In glad surprise
To feast on
Above four
Marzipan legs
Marshmallow velours
Kissed
And licked
By true blue flames
Creature adored
Her head adorned
With silver mane
Gold palomino fields'
Prairie grass yields
Shades of swirling piebald
Strawberry roan
Wild flower homes
In patterns of skewbald
To lodge the busy bees
...
#countryside
#trees
#horses
#animals
#nature
28 reads
0 Comments
Scarlett_Midwinter
Poem Published
11th Sep 2021 1:45pm
11th Sep 2021 1:45pm
House of Flowers
Greeted by snow white lilacs
And a sea of blooming roses
Crescendo of blushing pink
To delight both eyes and noses
An avalanche of daisies
Spread out with ease
Like a cloth to host
Summer feasts of bees
Fiddleheads sign the ground
Calligraphy of cursive green
Forget-me-nots spring all 'round
Quiet cerulean serendipity
And waiting inside this peaceful Arden
A second garden within a garden
Where Monet's poppies all bloom...
And a sea of blooming roses
Crescendo of blushing pink
To delight both eyes and noses
An avalanche of daisies
Spread out with ease
Like a cloth to host
Summer feasts of bees
Fiddleheads sign the ground
Calligraphy of cursive green
Forget-me-nots spring all 'round
Quiet cerulean serendipity
And waiting inside this peaceful Arden
A second garden within a garden
Where Monet's poppies all bloom...
#childhood
#home
#countryside
#flowers
#memories
48 reads
1 Comment
Scarlett_Midwinter
Poem Published
11th Sep 2021 5:37am
11th Sep 2021 5:37am
Goodbye Daisy Fields
White linen petals stretched up to the sky
Wide open like welcoming arms
Honey bees clad in onyx and gold
Buzzing in fuzzy soft swarms
Daisy fields laid out like blankets of snow
Under candy floss clouds and periwinkle ether
Beaming at children who frolic below
To gather their snow-blooms together
Songbirds and blackbirds sing summertime blues
While butterflies swing dance and bullfrogs croon
And in prim white array stand daisies who lazily
Wait for the slow silver rise of...
Wide open like welcoming arms
Honey bees clad in onyx and gold
Buzzing in fuzzy soft swarms
Daisy fields laid out like blankets of snow
Under candy floss clouds and periwinkle ether
Beaming at children who frolic below
To gather their snow-blooms together
Songbirds and blackbirds sing summertime blues
While butterflies swing dance and bullfrogs croon
And in prim white array stand daisies who lazily
Wait for the slow silver rise of...
#childhood
#countryside
#flowers #nature
#flowers #nature
40 reads
2 Comments
Scarlett_Midwinter
Poem Published
9th Sep 2021 9:05pm
9th Sep 2021 9:05pm
Lakeside Patisserie
Terracotta landslide lava cake sky
Erupting in salt water taffy lake
As apricot jam sunlight bakes
The mineral cinnamon bun rocks
Feet dangle off dark chocolate docks
As light bathes pale marzipan gates
And titanium cream puff gulls cry and fly
Above fields of ripened pumpkin spice
For hungry blueberry whipped cream eyes
Rice flour and platinum alpenglow
Greets fading butterscotch valleys below
Doughy sand kneaded by invisible hands
And patted by soft...
Erupting in salt water taffy lake
As apricot jam sunlight bakes
The mineral cinnamon bun rocks
Feet dangle off dark chocolate docks
As light bathes pale marzipan gates
And titanium cream puff gulls cry and fly
Above fields of ripened pumpkin spice
For hungry blueberry whipped cream eyes
Rice flour and platinum alpenglow
Greets fading butterscotch valleys below
Doughy sand kneaded by invisible hands
And patted by soft...
#beauty
#countryside
#nature
#food
#metaphor
49 reads
2 Comments
Scarlett_Midwinter
Poem Published
8th Sep 2021 3:43pm
8th Sep 2021 3:43pm
The Ghosts of Our Past Selves
The silence was golden
And the silence was loud
As the snow told its secrets
To the cold, frozen ground
I thought I saw an iceberg
On the river alone
And I thought the stars were fairies
That chased the cars home
Did the night cast the shadows
Of witches' hands or trees?
And was it the moon I saw
Or a mouth full of teeth?
The air smelled like sugar
That melts on your tongue
When all was still peaceful
And the...
And the silence was loud
As the snow told its secrets
To the cold, frozen ground
I thought I saw an iceberg
On the river alone
And I thought the stars were fairies
That chased the cars home
Did the night cast the shadows
Of witches' hands or trees?
And was it the moon I saw
Or a mouth full of teeth?
The air smelled like sugar
That melts on your tongue
When all was still peaceful
And the...
#childhood
#dreams
#countryside
#river
#winter
42 reads
1 Comment
Scarlett_Midwinter
Poem Published
3rd Sep 2021 2:39pm
3rd Sep 2021 2:39pm
Ireland
Spilt red licorice blood moon glow
On key lime chocolate woods below
Dawning pink clouds of blushes creep
On pale flesh-meadows soft skin-deep
Once the marshy haunt of Celtic warrior feet
Now for nomad lovers paths in legend steeped
Hillsides clothed in sparrow brain and Scots pine brawn
Seeing each cobalt dusk and every almond dawn
Eden of oxidized copper silk of fields
Where every blade a string of pearly raindrops yields
And daylight falls in locks on loughs of strawberry blonde ...
On key lime chocolate woods below
Dawning pink clouds of blushes creep
On pale flesh-meadows soft skin-deep
Once the marshy haunt of Celtic warrior feet
Now for nomad lovers paths in legend steeped
Hillsides clothed in sparrow brain and Scots pine brawn
Seeing each cobalt dusk and every almond dawn
Eden of oxidized copper silk of fields
Where every blade a string of pearly raindrops yields
And daylight falls in locks on loughs of strawberry blonde ...
#beauty
#countryside
#nature
#travel
#historical
59 reads
2 Comments
ANATNOM_GNIREFFUS
Poem Published
2nd Jun 2021 6:35am
2nd Jun 2021 6:35am
"The old sun sets over Glendive."
Summer used to feel so fine
A shady grove to sit and treasures to find
The green would erupt from death
And the life would find me like my first breath
But these days each day blurs into another
And I find no friend in my sister or brother
Little tablets are easy to crush and pull up my nose
The whiskey goes down like water, and keeps me morose
Moreover this old small town keeps on getting smaller
Like an enclosure for an animal that hoots and hollers
For something greater, a bigger purpose than this
Something better for the little family...
A shady grove to sit and treasures to find
The green would erupt from death
And the life would find me like my first breath
But these days each day blurs into another
And I find no friend in my sister or brother
Little tablets are easy to crush and pull up my nose
The whiskey goes down like water, and keeps me morose
Moreover this old small town keeps on getting smaller
Like an enclosure for an animal that hoots and hollers
For something greater, a bigger purpose than this
Something better for the little family...
#hope
#family
#countryside
#despair
#disappointment
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1 Comment
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