Baton Rouge Poems - Poems about Baton Rouge

...When my mother discussed his story, I was tragically shocked and enraged. How could someone kill a teenager? Assuming Yoshihiro was a trespasser? An exchange student, a young teenager, From Ja......Read the rest...

...He was old and haggard, in the year nineteen twenty something A tall lanky old man, with a worn out hat and a rusty ring His squint blues eyes pulled together the wrinkles upon his face With an ex......Read the rest...

...When I was back in high-school there were 3 or 4 'cool chicks' and 6 or 7 halfway decent 'hunks' at Boston High. But - short of 'halfway decent' - I was very well aware that super gorgeous babes wer......Read the rest...

...She became a symbols of American pride, as she made her run down the tracks. Those big drivers turning eight wheels and smoke pouring from her stack. Pulling cars from Chicago to Memphis, on acr......Read the rest...

...Tom: Well, do tell? But like I said, I’m not a stranger. I’m a businessman; and more than that. Why, I could be just like a brother to you if you’d let me. Besides, I studied music once, too, but tha......Read the rest...

...The curtain rises on Bumblebee Babineaux walking self-confidently along Chartres Street. Bumblebee [singing]: Ain’t nothin’ gonna break my stride, nobody’s gonna slow me down. Oh, no, I got to kee......Read the rest...

...Bumblebee Babineaux, the younger daughter, has just reached the age when self-confidence makes the most sense. Bumblebee is generally a pleasant, well-mannered girl, with a smile like freshwater pear......Read the rest...

...Here's the scoop, friends...like a bunch of my pieces now posted - and coming soon - this is, as indicated, the 1st HALF of this fairly lengthy poem. The 2nd half had to be posted separately due to P......Read the rest...

...Free Bird's last flight I Need You Midnight Rider Tuesday's Gone Simple kind of man Caught Up In You Gimme Three Steps Hold On Loosely Call Me the Breeze One Way Out The......Read the rest...

...Times they are so much a-changing as Dylan proposed Bob and not Dylan who was a genius but also a drunkard When black seems white and white appears black grey silver hair is reaching its t......Read the rest...

...Two years and a couple of weeks and I will be on the road again. Back from living right and ready to start living wrong. Ain't that a *****. But I got a pocket full of money gotta last me till they b......Read the rest...

...The only time I prayed or the first I can remember are the ones from bathrooms. Snorting lines of coke off the back of a toilet praying that no one caught me. Or in the bathroom at my mother's losing......Read the rest...

...I understand now! I hate that I went back to my childhood and birthplace! It was a mistake! They made me ,a success, look like a total disgrace. Monroe, I have developed a new hate for yo......Read the rest...

...BOBBY MCGEE - THE POLICE REPORT VERSION Unemployed and destitute in Baton Rouge Intending to steal an illegal ride on a train Feeling tired from too much drink Bobby sexually allured a truck dri......Read the rest...

...I've been up a bit and down a bit and hung around in river towns, when glory days and gamblin' boats were beauty to behold; long and sleek with shapely curves and ripe just like a lady in the bl......Read the rest...