Best New Orleans Poems

i know a young girl
lives just up da ill

she a black an white child
she got uge black eyes
wit lots of white surrounden dem

an' she  got tick black air
an' er skin's a lonely gray
she got big plump lips 
no man ever touched
cause she still jus' a child

an'...

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Heaviness painfully throbbed your beating heart, 
as the world could not understand it
and could never see it.
With your slurred words
and tired, dilated eyes, 
I smiled, knowing you were not from here, 
watching you drenched in sweat, 
dripping down from your neck
in the midst of this...

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She was tall and lovely from 'way down south,
she had blood on her hands, blood on her mouth.
She got voodoo spells and incantations.
She lived on one of those big plantations.
Had she done something bad? Well I don’t know.
She went by the name of Marie Laveau.

She...

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Walking down the alley behind the buildings on Royal street the Mandevilla and Jasmine vines line the sidewalk calming my stressed nerves.  The sweet fragrance of the flowers intoxicating my senses.  My luggage left behind, I don't need it badly enough to go...

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What's go great about New Orleans, Louisiana, is that of its jazz music and its voodoo culture. The city has been known as "The Big Easy" since the 1800s. It seems that all of the tourists from across the United States have considered New Orleans...

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The Baron de Pontalba

I have many times tried to imagine the Baron de Pontalba first strolling through the New Orleans alleyways attempting to focus on his under construction French Quarter Decatur Street buildings. The year was 1834 and never could I have imagined that some...

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Welcome visitor
     Enjoy Grand Old Lady by the River
                Beware of deadly nights...

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Old New Orleans

Written By:  D. Collins 10/21/14

Back in old New Orleans long, before Katrina came.
The Wild Tchopitoulas were the neighborhood gang.
They’d come with their own personal band.
Waking everybody up before 6am.


The old New Orleans is what I remember well.
Before the levies blew, and people...

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gothic shadows dance
hauntingly with southern oaks…
     moonlit spanish moss

            01 Jul 2015...

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Saul’s twinkling eyes took it all in – the platinum hair framing a first-class face, the silvery sheath dress wrapped around a figure that was out of sight, but in plain view. She was definitely the classiest thing in the joint -- Bannister’s by name,...

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To play part of clown,
Mardi Gras "must" be in town,
"Safe" to pull pants down!...

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In New Orleans, we 
Make crabs, crayfish, gumbo, then
We'll all come bayou!...

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There goes a lonely soul in a coffin 
carried by pallbearers which step forward with slow-pace  

a funeral leader goes with black umbrella up
the brass band follows: 

the trumpet vomits blood from its shredded heart,
one step forwards leaning to left
the trombone steps backward heaving...

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He sought all the mystery
As well as the blistery
With some of the grim
And the not-so-prim
In the city's ironic history

A story he would perceive
Seldom easy to believe
But always would back up
What came from the Cup
Of Cornucopia he would weave

He would oft-times humor
An unconfirmed rumor
Then blow it...

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"A House In New Orleans" Contest
Sponsor: Lin Lane

Walking down Bourbon Street I stopped at the 1850 house to see it for myself. The French Quarter is rich with historic homes...homes with fully furnished decorations and you can smell the history of New Orleans the second...

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