Alabama Poems - Poems about Alabama

...Born in New England in the wake of the Civil War, Her folks fled Irish famine and landed on our shore. At age five, she took sick, losing almost all her sight. At eight, her mother died, and h......Read the rest...

...She was a sweet child born in Soyhern Texas Some time in 73 Her Moma was from Alabama Her Poppy from New Orleans A cheerleader and local beauty at 17 Some folk say around here She was the pre......Read the rest...

... Oh, you don't like the things I have to say, well okay, just go ahead and kiss my grits! Alabama native Polly Holliday portrayed Flo, a sassy waitress on the TV show "Alice," in the late 197......Read the rest...

...First come the redbuds Then we get the tulip trees Alabama spring......Read the rest...

...Preface: On February 4, 1861, the seven states that had seceded by this point convened and created the Confederate States of America under the leadership of Jefferson Davis. Just under two m......Read the rest...

...They are my lucky pants, they come with me wherever They are my lucky pants, we will always be together They are navy blue nylon, not cotton or leather They are all purpose jogging pants for an......Read the rest...

...She loves the ballparks, and goes to Symphany halls. She loves God but not religion. She cusses and curses, gets drunk on sailors, yet her heart’s an open daisy. In Kentucky they call her ‘d......Read the rest...

...Bygones are again beginning. Big Nose Kate and Doc Holliday bang and toss China plates, bothering my ears with their blooming Southern inhospitality. Bedbugs, I never want em, because they bi......Read the rest...

...Your life may be full of sparkles and ove-lay but the rest of us sometimes struggle under storm clouds. Anna (one of my roommates) broke up with her BF of a year. It seemed to happen in agonizing,......Read the rest...

...If you have a little rock in your shoe, You will not cross Alabama, You will not cross Louisiana, You’ll have to remove it first, In poetry, it is the opposite, If you have a small pebble in ......Read the rest...

...A dog in Alabama a snake in Tennessee A toucan in Alaska a mule in Kentucky Texas has its longhorns Colorado its buffalo Arizonans look up at mountains Montanans attend......Read the rest...

...The child asks, Where do we put the money? In the slot, she tells him, for the tomatoes and the honey. How will they know we paid enough? He asks her, worried now. He is a trusting soul, she tell......Read the rest...

...Needless to say I never went back.They all thought it was because of their extraordinary skill at helping me to see that womanizing,wife beating,piece of work would never change.It was however my br......Read the rest...

...Inevitable death defines afterlife I mull mortality thru lens crafted occipital orbs regarding a better future experience sing a space oddity – whar incessant yaks exuding a big hurt emana......Read the rest...

...But understand this: If the owner of the house had known at what time of night the thief was coming, he would have kept watch and would not have let his house be broken into. Matthew 24:43 NIV Song......Read the rest...