Best Mississippi Poems
Below are the all-time best Mississippi poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of mississippi poems written by PoetrySoup members
Mississippi MomentsMississippi Moments
History journeys along with its meandering flow as
a wide birth from bank to bank has eyes straining
trying to see across to the other side,...
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Categories:
mississippi, nostalgia, places, river,
Form:
Narrative
Categories:
mississippi, beauty, candy, child, kid,
Form:
Prose
A Poem For Sam CookeDecember 14, 1965
"Mr. Samuel Cooke. Sam Cooke??
You been in that casket for three days..
You...
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Categories:
mississippi, america, celebrity, devotion, music,
Form:
Rhyme
Discomfort Notwithstandinghanging in the air
humidity’s heaviness . . .
the river’s slow crawl
On the Mississippi lies the beautiful little city where I once lived. How many times...
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Categories:
mississippi, life,
Form:
Haibun
Once Upon a Colorado ChristmasSplendor of soft shoulders
caressed by sinking sun
Out my window the western slope
of the thick coated Rocky Mountains
Once upon a clear cold Colorado Chrstmas
purple brushed...
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Categories:
mississippi, christmas, hope,
Form:
Free verse
A Southern MemoryA Southern Memory
dusty, winding road
cotton crops glowing bright white
Mississippi mud
Robert J. Lindley, 3-25-2019
Haiku, (Time has flown)...
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Categories:
mississippi, appreciation, creation, farm, imagery,
Form:
Haiku
I'M HuckI’m Huck, and my last name is Finn.
On the great Mississippi I’ve been
playing hooky from school
‘cause there ain’t any rule
that can keep Huckleberry caged in.
I...
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Categories:
mississippi, books,
Form:
Limerick
The Last GoodbyeThe last time I took Pop to the big lake, the wind was so strong,
it nearly blew his wheelchair over, I knew just where to...
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Categories:
mississippi, fatherdad, time, dad, time,
Form:
Narrative
CamilleHowling, shrieking winds
thirty foot tsunami
swallowing the land...
Hurricane Camille
Biloxi/Gulfport/Bay St. Louis, MS
August 17-18, 1969
Deaths: 259
Tidal Surge: 28 ft.
Est. Wind speed: 225+MPH (The wind instruments were destroyed...
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Categories:
mississippi, nature, weather,
Form:
Haiku
Grand Ancient RiversFlow mighty rivers, what all have you seen
Rise and fall of empires, string of storied kings
As veins carry blood, you give Earth its life
Carving the...
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Categories:
mississippi, nature,
Form:
Rhyme
Categories:
mississippi, best friend, bird,
Form:
Personification
Children of Entitlement
They won't let us have
the same things ...
things that once was given to them
They say we deserve it not,
because we're of the rejected seed ---
those...
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Categories:
mississippi, black african american, perspective,
Form:
Narrative
The Grand Old Lady By the RiverDo you know what it means to miss New Orleans
To see the ironworks filled with flowers supreme
To gaze the Mississippi on calm...
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Categories:
mississippi, absence,
Form:
Rhyme
We Marched For the Madness of Mortality's Mayheim -Warriors of austere adventures,
soldiers for suffering and tribe survival,
children,peasents,women & men,the penny poor & candid criminals,
proud peoples,honest heros,
we marched on all the flesh of earth,
no...
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Categories:
mississippi, history, march,
Form:
Imagism
Viva La Elvis - Abridged VersionVIVA LA ELVIS
In Tupelo Mississippi, twin baby boys were born,
To Gladys and Vernon Presley, but sadly one passed on.
They named him Jesse Garon, their hearts...
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Categories:
mississippi, dedicationheart, lost, day, heart,
Form:
Ode