Best Swamp Poems

Down in Louisiana,
down in da bayou deep
Where sweaty bodies hear da swamp sounds
in da hot, steamy heat
Local people know Mamadou Sekkou
Medicine woman 
born on da banks of da bayou
	300 lbs
of dark, dark skin
	charcoal black
Big bosomed woman
with black and silver wavy waterfalls
	flowing down her back
Mamadou Sekkou
sez...

Continue reading...

Author: Joseph Osita

From the swamp
Haunts me the tears of my blood
Stripped of all hope-the soil to shelter
And banished to swim in oil-poisoned sea
Do they know
Ghost of revenge haunts the weeping soul?


 From the swamp
All sorrow-veiled mourners gather
To unfold reaper's choice of the day
As muscles are...

Continue reading...

Swamps are like places where dinosaurs roam  
shadowed by ancient moss-draped trees.        
A prehistoric world in shades of green.            
I paddle my pirogue through algae foam....

Continue reading...

A SWAMP TALE

The  big cat chased the little brown rat,
the  brown rat chased a wingless bat
all fell into  the swamp split splat
now what on earth do you think of that?

They landed right next to a frog
sitting still on a fallen log,
just ...

Continue reading...

fickle crickets: 
serenading sirens
of retreat, as chartreuse digits 
creep dark alley swamps;
hanging jungle themes invade
quiet dens perpetuated by
creation’s wet glory...croaking:
ancestral tales of grandeur.

mammal sigils:
	evoking tootling 
trespassers of environmental legacy;
	nature redeeming medicines
sustaining miracles of light...EPA
	earth.provides.assistance:
yet mankind defers pollution-free
	toxic-free lakes of life.

scatter kingdom:
	encroaching breaths spew
poisonous darts of...

Continue reading...

Swamp Nightmare

Oh! me oh! my boo hoo!
Whatever shall we do
Now it’s going far too well
When it should be going to hell

The Economy is booming
No catastrophe yet looming
After choosing Donald Trump
Where recession? where the slump?

But we’re nearing full employment
All who can, in max deployment 
Black and...

Continue reading...

chilly winter morn
fog is embracing the swamp
drake calls for a mate
...

Continue reading...

Dusk at the Great Swamp* in early Spring

Applauding 
at the curve of twilight
you’ll hear them: 
tree frogs.

Bending, feigning
one way then the other,
Greek dancers:
trees.

Concentrating keenly, 
with spy scopes
on distant rookeries: 
birders.

Disturbing the peace
of winter meditation,
rearing herself:
swamp giant.

Kathy Collins


*Great Swamp National
Wildlife Sanctuary
Morris County, NJ...

Continue reading...

An unfortunate calibre is a turtle turning in a towel. Vast vistas vacate villages videoing vests vehemently And all the time the sleeping beast snores as the cattle drive by in their mooving mobile manufactured machines. It is never wise to sit and stare at...

Continue reading...

murky water hinders view

vegetation overruns shore

crocodiles lay in wait



                    P.R.Deremer...

Continue reading...

Down in the bayou where the mangroves grow
There's talk of black voodoo, like Marie Leveau
The Swamp Witch, is legend, she has magic so black
That those who have seen her, have never come back
There's tales of the noises that come from the dark
Of werewolves and zombies...

Continue reading...

A dog and a frog
(with the names of Bull)
sit on a log
abutting a synagogue
drinking eggnog
until they are full
Suddenly agog
(by a fog in their bog
that makes them slog
like a cog
when they jog)
begin a dialogue
with a demagogue hedgehog
"Start a blog monologue
regarding this smog"
voiced to the hog by...

Continue reading...

Green mossy water
Lonely swamp with such beauty
It's my paradise...

Continue reading...

What does it take to drain a swamp?
A weakling or someone with strength and pomp?
How deep in the mire must this one go
To effect a change from the muck we know?
To drain a swamp, takes grit and a STOMP!...

Continue reading...

China made my canoe which I proudly adored
Flotation and recreation all on the creek shores
The day was right cool
The water icy below and a sudden rupture

Sent me into the swampy muck
Slick as an oily tool attended fish school
My feet had no traction and caused a...

Continue reading...