Best Gras Poems

Mardi Gras

Ever since the flames licked 

my fair pink burning flesh,

nothing in my life has remained the same.



I had to go back in to 

save my little brother Chris. 

 Life without him would kill me, 

besides myself I would forever blame.

 

Even though it’s...

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Mardi Gras parades are rolling the streets again
I watched 'Isis' from inside my windowpane
A king and a queen were pretending to reign
but from the colorful revelry I chose to abstain

I grew up yelling, "Throw me something mister!"
Going to many parades with friends and my sister.
Walked...

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Beads fly by
Kids grab for candy
Bands play Jazz
Spangled girls
Sweat and sugar sticks to me
Laughter fills the air 

Catch the beads
The floats go by us
Look at that
Wonderful
What a way to welcome Lent
First one last Beginet




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Well just how far back do you want me to go?
And how much  "crazy" do you need to know?
 
hmmmmmmmmmmm
  
Looking back I recall, scared in my shoes
My innocent prank made FRONT PAGE NEWS!

New Orleans Fountain I shall never forget
When I poured a...

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Poetry is more than words
it is song
music
and beat
a movement
of dance
of jigs
spins and reels
old and new
coming together
rhyme and meter
of voice 
a passion so deep
in language not understood
but felt
breath funnelled 
through instruments
evoking sounds
through hands and feet
Rock n Roll moves 
operatically
through ears to heart
hips mardi gras en force
from...

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What is Fat Tuesday?
To disgorge your wicked ways, 
be impish and play....

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So here's to Happy Tubby Tuesday,
The big New Orleans jazz & blues day,
With the drunken revelers en masse...
On second thought, let's give it a pass.
(sorry)...

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fat
Tuesday
pancake day-
mardi gras some
say...

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Standing in the middle of a circumstance,
Holding both of them in my hands.
They see me as the worst person to be,
But they can’t understand what I really feel.

What the eyes want to see is what they ought to see,
But reality lies only within me.
They can’t...

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This Tuesday will be the fat day,
to purge all your sin on the streets.
The sun will bring the ash of Wednesday,
with foreheads displaying the Holy Trinity.

Masks of feathers and gold, beautiful and sublime
People with umbrellas dancing to the second line.

"Laissez bon temps les rouler!"
A Crowd...

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It's Mardi Gras time down in New Orleans ~  it's a carnival of memes

Where the people sing and play ~ there's music in the streets, both night and day

Everybody's having fun and drinking wine ~ because it's carnival time

 "Throw me something mister" as...

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I love to go to Mardi Gras
And see the girls cast off their bra
As if it were their sole faux-pas
In dancing through their last hurrah

I do not know just where they went
I can not guess what charms were Lent
But I suspect the knight was spent
In...

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New Orleans
Great fanfare
Parades and festivities
Flamboyance
Glamorous exuberance
Vivid colors
Feathers and costumes
Strings of beads
Strewn everywhere
Loud blaring music
Frenzied partying 
Right on through to
Shrove Tuesday



AP: Honorable Mention 2020

Posted on February 23, 2019...

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O Mardi Gras, how I long for thee
The carnival season of music and glee
The colorful floats, the beads, and the masks
The joyful crowds, the drinks, and the flasks

I wait by the roadside, eager and keen
To catch a glimpse of the dazzling scene
I hear the trumpets,...

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Girls Gone Wild
Careful, you may just have a child 
Drugs and alcohol plague the alleyway 
Stay away as there is a price to pay
Is the meaning of Mardi Gras to go buck wild
Let’s look and see if it’s been defiled 

It started as a custom...

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