Best Julep Poems

Emerald glen, I first saw angel’s wings come down
one of Nature's bright treasures outside our small town;
as brilliant glows entered sad heart and seeing eyes,
I...

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When Nature's Beauty and Sky's Heart Became One
 
Emerald glen, I first saw angel’s wings come down
one of Nature's bright treasures outside our small town;
as...

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Look at you, August,
petending to be
a southern belle
all breezy and full
of mint julep.

Refinement is not your style,
a plague your eighth month sun
driven to scourge pastures,
blind...

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"Fresh Jueju"

When those blackberries of memory drop
from your windows of Summer crushed fresh 
as a julep against your flawed wintry grounds 
collect them in your...

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What do you think of when I say the word “love”
Flowers, blue skies and sunshine
And so when you think of total “commitment”
It's a lifetime of...

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Heat Wave Hits the North

By Elton Camp

Heat makes the Yankees scream and shout
But they don’t know what weather’s about

For those people, who in the South...

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Sitting on the porch watching worlds collide
And wondering if the truth will be classified
Sipping a mint julep; knowing I should be horrified
Though I would consider...

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There was a young lady named Tulip
Who sipped on a tasty mint julep 
As the moon rose
And glittered her toes
She thanked her Great God with...

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I went for a walk on a summer’s eve
with my lady on my arm.
With a summer dress and parasol,
she also wore her lucky charm.
We wound...

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Joe Crow was here,

A Crow appeared on the balcony near,
just a clicking, not an ark he cried,
Seen as the harbinger of death, so *****,
begone foul...

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The old black man plowed the ground in that baking sun 
And sang all those old gospel songs 
The rows were straight as an arrow...

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I winced disenchantment whenever you fell
Through countless absurdities I held my tongue
While you courted your daydreams from hell.

I mastered the rules willing all to be...

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This is one excited kid and one PROUD father...



I took my son to the lumberyard last Tuesday afternoon. The day itself, though toasty, was the...

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Skimming the backyard lake water with eyes bent on adventure
while knowing that alligator eyes are skimming shore just for me
I decide on a mint julep...

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The heat weighs the air down.. down...
 it say shoosh~ it seemed to steam 
as it wafted from white sand to damp the blue skies.
Long...

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