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Best Louisville Poems

Below are the all-time best Louisville poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of louisville poems written by PoetrySoup members


Premium Member Intersection of Interbeing
Could it be that two city streets meet at a portal
of awakening that leads to enlightenment?
May your next frontier be "Inter-Be" discovery.

Nearly forty years ago...

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© Greg Gaul  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: louisville, inspirational, memory, mystery, myth,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Clinging To My Bible and Bear Spray
One DIRTY BIRD COP and (our) cities burn... again
now the far lefty loons are flapping about wanting to defund 
and even ELIMINATE police forces all...

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Categories: louisville, baptism, best friend, bible,
Form: Free verse
A Homerun
A HOMERUN

Golden gloves catch.
Louisville slugger hits the ball.
A homerun made.
He shouts home sweet home was my aim.

The clouds were clear.
The crowd shouted from the stands.
This...

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Categories: louisville, america, baseball, best friend,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Kentucky Bourbon
We all seek a satisfying drink that pleases our taste buds,and we drink all of that drink down to the last drop,because it hits the...

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Categories: louisville, adventure, africa, america, anniversary,
Form: Ballad
Premium Member Kentucky's Senator Mitch Mcconnell
Mitch McConnell is a long distance runner,and he runs to win,and he has been running the race,and never gives in!!!Derby Day is his friend in...

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Categories: louisville, 12th grade, america, anger,
Form: Ballad



Elegy 'N' Eulogy For Mohammed Ali Clay
A very famous champion,
 an inspiring enthusiastic man was he
Who has  now departed , yet is quoted, 
for many pearls of wisdom
Vociferous king , 
of...

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Categories: louisville, boxing day , eulogy, goodbye,
Form: Elegy
Premium Member The Reason Why Racism Is Truly a Health Issue For the Usa and the World
We as American Citizens can through observation learn!We can learn why "Racism"is a "Health Issue".Racism is a "Mental Health Issue that cannot be denied,because we...

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Categories: louisville, 10th grade, 1st grade,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member River City Night Life
An earful of breaks...
in overnight silence,
the ticking clock,
crickets chirping,
r-r-r-r-r-o-w-l!
a cat fight,
midnight,
a siren blares,
dogs howl,
a hooting owl,
the mouse...
at prowl,
a plane zooms...
on high,
motors, whining,
tires, as 
trucks and...

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Categories: louisville, imagination, introspection, life, people,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Rick Pitino
The "Remix" of 1980 and 1986 continued in 2013: The Louisville Cardinals Basketball Team had bliss,and under Rick Pitino the team did a "Remix" of...

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Categories: louisville, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Bio
Premium Member Stevie Wonder
When "The lightening Strikes",and we hear a "Powerful Thunder","Our minds and hearts envision,and think of all the "Great Songs"sung by "The Creative Artist"named "Stevie Wonder!...

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Categories: louisville, 12th grade, 3rd grade,
Form: Ballad
Flat On My Face
I've fallen flat on my face 
And I can't get up
I wanna leave this place 
But I gotta pick my face up 1st
Looking in the...

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Categories: louisville, absence, cheer up, deep,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Long Leisurely Lunch
Lazy, long, leisurely lunch,
    Lolling, laughing, lingering,
     O'er lamb-stew, linguini 'n lager.

   In Louisville, Los Angeles,...

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Categories: louisville, food, life, love,
Form: Alliteration
Bird Brain and Pigeon Toe

Two of the wackiest guys I know,
	live two doors down, 
		           one flight below

Tall is...

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Categories: louisville, friendship, fun, humorous, satire,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member Mayor Gregory Fischer
Our youth needed,and got a "Hero",in "The summer of 2014,15,16,17,and 18.Our youth needed and got jobs for those summers to help them fortify there dignity,and...

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Categories: louisville, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Ballad
Truly History In the Making
Truly History In the Making

Remember when some sweaters we wove
Was while we were sitting in a pretty grove
Birds started singing and others flew by
Certainly a...

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© James Horn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: louisville, allegory, analogy, eulogy,
Form: Couplet

Book: Shattered Sighs