Bayous Poems - Poems about Bayous

...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......

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...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......

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...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......

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...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......

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..."He made a difference." Gramps, my mother's father, Dave Luke -- my grandfather, a tall unlettered white (decidedly white) Louisiana man -- was born August 1888. He lived 87 years. He gr......

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...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......

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...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......

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...(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......

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...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......

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...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......

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...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......

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...(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......

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...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......

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...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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...When I was a small child I would always be outside, Must have blazed a hundred paths Just to see what I could find. Then they put me in a suit, And I cried out “I won’t go!” Left my home for wa......

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