Best Alabama Poems

I found you. 

From the floorboards, to the trunk, to the stairs, to my table, you shambled. Howling and bleeding. 


God, I had wanted so badly to recognize you.
To have some common ground with someone, even if it was just a ghost.

But, here we are.

You,
some...

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In late on a late night from a long journey,
Barely in the door 
She's telling funny stories of her own misfortunes.
The comedy of errors that harried her homewards.


The young woman who will always be our child
Has the lot of us laughing
When we should be asleep
At...

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Black clouds bury the blue skies of Bama overhead
as monstrous winds wipe out towns of southern plain.
From historic antebellum it left a path of dead
in the midst of hail and drenching down-pouring rain.

Ten hours of terror that held the sweet south in its grip
not yielding...

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It’s Iron Bowl Time in Alabama

By Elton Camp

Watching football may be okay

Even following it, play-by-play 

However, I say, “Ho, hum”

Don’t care about the outcome

For I will use my time another way



(For readers outside Alabama, this refers to the extreme fanaticism so often seen here about...

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Oh how furious it was, God sent his power from above.  He let the Black clouds 
and the rain come gushing through our window panes.  Oh what scary a sight to see,
I felt like running, I tried to free me.  The gushing...

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create an image
plenty of clay and mirror's
plenty of jaw talk...

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A little south of Heaven
On the Gulf of Mexico
Here in the Heart of Dixie
The living's easy and slow

The weather's mostly nice here
Round Mobile Bay
Sunshine when it ain't raining
It's beautiful today here in L.A.

Living in L.A.
Lower Alabama
Spanish moss, azaleas
A deep south panorama, Lower Alabama
So far south,...

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Gray the sky grew,
And darker still in hue.
How could anyone know when the day began,
So many would never see the sun rise again.
So many the Lord did decide to take,
A trail of destuction the Twister left in its wake.
The winds twisted and blew,
Leaving a path...

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(About relatives moving from New York to Alabama)

Alabama Here We Come

By Elton Camp

Of cold temperature and snow you’ve had enough
So you are moving to where there isn’t such stuff

In Alabama the cost of living won’t be as high
And it will be much easier financially to...

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Alabama songbird –
On radio she’s never heard,
But empties her poetic soul
For strangers all around the world

Sitting in her southern home,
Surrounded by adoring fans;
She sweetly sings angelic tunes,
And strums her plum guitar in hand

And soon enough her voice dispels
The walls around that fail to keep
A cage...

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Making a Snowman in Alabama

By Elton Camp

In Alabama, whenever snow falls
“Let make a snowman,” a kid calls

The result that he wants to see
Is one like in books or on TV

But when the snowfall is through
There’s little with which to do

Balls of snow you try to...

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Can’t believe these eyes
And what they see
As only blackouts survive
Driving my rig into the northern Alabama night
A twisting hand reaching out of the demon skies
And ripping out the heart 
And giving back ruined lives 
(I know, I was there)...

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Those were such happy days, for I had lately been deeded a farm,
My aunt and uncle were retiring, so tillage had lost its charm.

Since they were childless, and to a retirement community bound,
It seemed I was headed to Alabama, and an absence of city sounds!

As...

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The long never ending landscape of southern Alabama never runs cold. Today it decided to. The wind was at 
ease and all the snow flakes were about. The cold ground shuddered beneath me but I could tell it was a good 
kind of shiver. The...

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Alabama’s Governor:  My Way or No Way

By Elton Camp

In office only for the second day,
Governor says do religion his way
The deacon in the Baptist Church
Wants us not to be left in the lurch

He says, “I want to be your brother,”
But it requires his belief...

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