Best Alabama Poems

"Fragments and crumbs of life, all the little pieces"

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I’d kissed at least one boy by age fourteen.
Disappointment was the taste it left.
Although it was short, it was far from sweet.
In contrast, my second...

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Thought you folks might like to read this.  Someone sent it in an email to me.


The following is a poem written by Judge Roy...

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That first kiss--De-lish! Smooth like Hagendaaz!
I was in my fourteenth year, too green to see his flaws.

I, the skinny Yankee teen with glasses on her...

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I am feel certain that my Karma
Is to sail over there, Charma
When I get to Malta
I surely shall waltz ya
Til I’m quite sure I done...

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we sat, my brother and I
leaning against the old wood pannels of the room
the smoke engulfed us like breath
as the threat of violence loomed

his voice...

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I confess and waive all my rights 
Premeditated crime in plain sight 
Songs will be written ‘bout my spree 
I’m guilty of “love in the...

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She found me singing in the backwoods of Alabama bluegrass
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I was talking to my solitary self again, grumbling how life held no adventure,
And my parrot, Cherry, often echoed me, as moon echoes golden splendors.

She'd...

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Left Memphis on a southbound bus. 
Entered north Mississippi as I knew I must.
Turned toward the Alabama line.
Spent the next couple hours dreaming you were...

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FAITH NOT, FEAR!

When the ole’ devil tells you that you
are not going to make is and that you are going down
you are going to have...

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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...

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Once again, young love has affected the lives of all teenagers, but this time, it's also
affecting the lives of all young interracial young lovebirds. All...

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Rosa Louise Parks
refused to give up her seat
“First Lady of Civil Rights”

back in fifty-five
civil disobedience
‘fore Martin Luther King’s time

courageous Rosa
kept her seat and caused a...

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ain't it a shame

when hate lynches 
a 14 year old Colored boy
in 1955 Mississippi
and blows away the dreams of
four innocent little ***** girls 
in 1963...

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