Pumpernickel
...Dress up this tasty circular bread
with cream cheese, lox, or veggie spread.
A pumpernickel choice with marmalade jelly, just cried out to my empty belly.
There are too many people in this wai...
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Categories:
beignet, food, funny,
Form: Rhyme
Colourful
...Cafe Beignet on eve of Mardi Gras
Fat Tuesday is consuming everyone
New Orleans is magnet, nothing will mar
Their patience rewarded fun has begun.
Astounding parade enjoyed far and wide...
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Categories:
beignet, fun, happiness,
Form: Sonnet
The Crescent City
...The Crescent City
Ancestral roots are calling me
to Crescent City near the sea.
A city with its past displayed
where long ago the pirates played.
The glowing lights of Vieux Carré;
C...
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Categories:
beignet, city, nostalgia, places, travel,
Form: Rhyme
Fragrance of Life
...Fragrance of Life ©
Cool rain drums on blistering
asphalt, the scent streams into
the nostrils--hot, grassy smell of
summer, freshly cut-smoky
cedar lingers on the air
Fresh popcorn d...
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Categories:
beignet, life, senses,
Form: Free verse
The French Ain'T Got No Blues, Blues
...Ain't got no mean, lowdown, painful, hurtin'
all night come home to me Baby, blues.
Ain't New Or-leens out them two-storey
sycamore-lined windows that don't open
to Memphis piano-roll sweet after...
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Categories:
beignet, fantasy,
Form: Blank verse
Haricot From Baton Rouge
...(Aieee! We Gon’ Pass A Good Time Yeah Cher …Enjoy et Laisez les bons temps rouler)
Haricot was tall and quite lean
In English they would call him String Bean
Haricot would often travel down th...
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Categories:
beignet, family, food, friendship, happiness,
Form: Free verse