Best Lafayette Poems

Gilbert du Motier, La Marquis de Lafayette--
A hero American patriots should not forget.
He helped us win the Revolutionary War.
In Paris, rests 'neath American soil ever...

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...He reformed the routing patriots,
formed a line atop a rise, Perrine’s Hill,
brought in General Knox and the artillery,
commanding the mass through sheer force of will.

He...

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Dad never knew his father.  That soldier died in a war.
All Dad heard was brief stories of the man that went before.
Grandma had some...

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~A Wooden Cross~


South of Lafayette on interstate 65
I saw a wooden cross.

The roadside monument,
weathered and grey,
was a tribute to a loved one
who lost his life...

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man created thunder awakening brooklyn with the promise of hell to come
if god is generous it will rain on the night of unregulated fire works
for...

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Morocco say my Ameriscam passport
blue eyed, blond hair and a smile
I pass any doors no questions asked.

If need be I shove the French one
the address...

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Monroe*,Shreveport, Alexandria*, Lake Charles, Lafayette, Baton Rouge*, New Orleans*, 
support the  woman who has either visited or lived there before. She's coming straight from...

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We, pedestrians, who love open range
walk in and out for freedom and bread.
It is now high time for autumnal change
And the city streets are propelling...

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Lafayette we are a shamble of noises
digging the street and towing cars
as I told you so for my two twenty
that I pay for and you...

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Now I'm a nine year old female African American girl;
A prodigy and I am a daddy's girl
Mom puts my hair in a bun
Yes, I'm nine...

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I lost my outside cat tonight
a dear to me I am drenched in tears
as I will miss the company
of rubs  and what not
looking for...

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aspirante suono escono abitare come violino, 
per aprire la crescente punteggio su par

con quelle che parla delicatamente, si trova

diretto dal piano di un parente prossimo.

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New Jersey has a special tree,
A sturdy, mammoth oak,
Beneath whose shade George Washington
And Lafayette once spoke.

The tree was there before, from Spain,
Columbus started out.
The experts...

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We are in the age of raging time,
rhyme and reason down the drain
 with our coffee grinds,
quick views and videos, terror on the tubes,
smart-mouths cursing
between...

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I always considered you littered my home,
Small knickknacks adorning overcrowded shelves.
The marble statues you bought from lovely Rome,
I leave them there, a memory of ourselves.

And...

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