Bayous Poems - Poems about Bayous

EMANCIPATION: DELAYED BUT LET'S NOT BE DISMAYED

...Emancipation: Delayed But Not Dismayed
      (Apropos Of Juneteenth Celebration)
[As Relevant Today As When First Posted, 2021] 

This is the day the Lord has made.
Let us rejoice and celebrate
...

Will I Find You in the End

...Hello God, are you there?
I’ve been searching for you everywhere.
Starting out in my mother’s womb 
Not very long ago,
When my life was barely beginning 
Before I began to know…

Anything abou...

Life Is a Poem

...I’ve heard it said that poetry is dead
But I don’t believe that’s true.
It runs in our veins like water to rain
Somewhere inside me and you.

It’s up in the air, in circles and squares
And ocea...

Travels Taught Me a Good Lesson

...Travel taught me one precious thing,
There is always better Elsewhere,
You love your village, visit the Tyrol,
You love Cathy, Sue has more beautiful blue eyes,

My travels taught me to change b...

Southern Grace

...Title: Southern Grace


In the land where magnolias bloom,
Beneath the southern sun's warm embrace,
There lies a region filled with tales,
A tapestry woven with Southern grace.

Amidst the fi...

Gramps

..."He made a difference."

Gramps, my mother's father --
Dave Luke -- my grandfather, 
a tall unlettered white (decidedly white) 
Louisiana man -- was born August 1887.  
He lived 87 years.  He g...

Quiet Whisper

...A stone hard imprint
Apologies
No need
A storm to never blow over
A heart
To continuously bleed
A way of life
Out the window
Are values taught
The right way
Please
Thank you
May I
How wo...

Harbingers of Spring

...Snow melting, icicles dripping from the eave
Hint that winter’s frigid air may soon leave,
Replaced by warm breezes from the south
In swampy bayous return the cottonmouth.
When mulber...

Emancipation: Delayed But Not Dismayed

...(Apropos Of Juneteenth Celebration)

This is the day the Lord has made;
Let us rejoice and celebrate
Because we’re still here…marching on
With our eyes stayed on the prize.
Let us rejoice and c...

Down In New Orleans

...Way down south near the marshlands,
near the bayous, and close to the lake.
There is a city with its old wonders.
A place where no one barely sleeps.

Parties move up and down the cobbled street...

Traveling Around the United States

...I have traveled the world over but like the United States best
From Maine to California, north and south, east, and west.
Born in West Virginia, I live in the Commonwealth of Kentucky
Have visited...

Arkansas

...Isn’t she beautiful?
When you top a steep slope and look down upon her hills, tumbling over each other for miles, covered in greenery of new spring, you realize that she, the land, is immaculate.
B...

Emancipation: Delayed But Not Dismayed

...(Apropos Of Juneteenth Celebration)

This is the day the Lord has made;
Let us rejoice and celebrate
Because we’re still here…marching on
With our eyes stayed on the prize.
Let us rejoice and c...

Cthulu Lurks In the Evil Cabin In the Words

...Cthulu lurks in the evil cabin in the words 

Deep in the bayous 
of Louisiana 
sits an abandoned cabin 
in the swamps

the cabin is inhabited 
by an ancient evil creature
newly risen from t...

The Mud Monster

...Within the bayous of muck
and mire there is a tale
of the mud monster who
appears at front doors
in the dark of the night
covered with thick mud
begging to come in
and visit for a while
to ch...

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