Best In The South Poems

Summer Nights in the South


Green fireflies blink in the quiet of night

and our sleeping old dog heaves a sigh.

Dreaming, she sprints through a youthful blue sky

chasing delicate clouds, cotton-white.



A red-sunset tanager* colors the warm air

from a perch in the majestic oak limbs above

professing by lullaby,...

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Jack Frost got me hustling 
To clear my car of excess snow
Bare brown branches bustling
As  frigid blue breeze blows

The forecast was right or wrong
As I sit in the car heating it up
On the radio red Christmas songs
Sing along makes freezing fun enough

I watch a...

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The Finest Antebellum Mansion in the South

By Elton Camp

Windsor was near the banks of the Mississippi River 
Extreme luxury, size, beauty and comfort it did deliver
The manor was completed just before the Civil War 
It’s builder, Smith Daniell, couldn’t asked for more

Only a few weeks...

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Just North of South Carolina 
Is where this country boy was born
All I really cared in those growing years
Was the running through woods kind of fun

Those days I fondly remember 
There's no way you can bad mouth the South
With water up to our knees chasing...

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Some years winter is very mild.
Warm afternoons to sit in the sun.
Or do something fun, maybe wild
outside, instead of coming undone.
      
Some years winter in the south vary
About every ten years or so
There'll be deep snow in our zonary
Freezing rain,...

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Born in the South
By Franklin Price
7/17/2016

Born in the South 
The year was 1945
There have been so many changes
Since I have been alive

The races separated
By the colors of their skin
Inequalities existed
Don't know where I should begin

Separate but not equal
Were the blacks compared to whites
Could not use...

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A GENTLEMAN HERE IN THE SOUTH
(A Southern Cad)
By Roy Merritt

You know I'm astute fellow 
my wisdom has to much to admire
I've seduced all the young ladies 
And with their domestics conspired

I've chiseled my business partners 
I've been with my friend's sweet wife
A frisky young lady...

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Banned in the south
The sun visits his old haunts
In the north...

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Ya'll want to com'fer supper?
Yep we's having greens, fat back,
tators, chitlins, peppa sauce, 
pickled peaches and cairn
muffins. I seez ya when ya gets he-a.
Bye now ya he-a.
Tell ya maw Iz said hey.
Chil'in don't gets ya britches durty in the red clay.
Com' a runnin when comp'ny...

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Hot in the south sitting on the porch
Fanning your face with a hand fan
Dressed in a beautiful white dress 
With a cold mint julep in hand

Miss. JENNIFER, yes Miss. JAN
Do you believe what that SunShine Smile,
Said about me?
Her last poem was all about Me, Me,...

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Life in the South
Dr. James E. Martin
©July, 2013

Southern livin’ is mighty fine.
About this many often opine.
We love our laid back way of life
And don’t really like bickering and strife.

Iced sweet tea and butterbeans
Are common here as are turnip greens.
Many criticize our Southern drawl,
They can’t understand...

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a 5-7-5 (not sure if it could be called a senryu)


In some Southern states,
nature rivaled Corona.
We worshiped at home.


April 12, 2020...

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Christmas carol singing. Jingle bells ringing.
Here in the "South" that is our upbringing.....
       From gathered together in cold weather in front of a neighbors yard;
to parents stopping traffic so kids could sleigh ride down the ice covered boulevard.
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This
July
Caught my eye
With some nice rain
Not one hundred here
I'm left somewhat afraid
What does tomorrow hold, friend
Will there be some variety
Will the heat rise, tornadoes surprise
"Fear not," God said, " I've got total control"....

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i was born in a shack
by the railroad track
i wasn't alone
it was our home
no doudt it was the rout
yes i was
BORN IN THE SOUTH...

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