Exploring the Beauty of Tennessee through Poetry: The Home State - The Tennessee Poem

In September of 2022, I wrote a poem about the State of Tennessee and some reasons why people call it home. I submitted the poem to a poem writing contest in Tennessee Magazine where it won second place in the November 2022 edition of the Poet's Playground contest, age category 23-64. My poem was featured on and still is on their website at this link https://www.tnmagazine.org/poets-playground-november-2022/ .

Crazy to think I wrote that poem in a day and submitted it with the thought of just being glad someone might read it and be touched in some way by it. The moral of this story, do something you love, do not be afraid to try even if it seems scary.

Tennessee by Mikayla Young

• written on September 15th, 2022

Tennessee the volunteer state where

Every corner holds a place that brings the

Neighbors and farmers to unite to look out for one another and the land that gives and takes and the

New beginnings awaiting among the rising Tennessean sky as

Each person holds a story to tell of the small towns and cities that make up the

State we each call home

Stories told and held just like memories of

Each day and night bring everyone together in the state of beginning and ending of a day's journey

Each person tells a different tale and has a different view of what makes Tennessee home to them but one must see for themselves what makes Tennessee the place people call home.