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Cajuns Poems - Poems about Cajuns


Premium Member The Crescent City
...The Crescent City Ancestral roots are calling me to Crescent City near the sea. A city with its past displayed where long ago the pirates played. The glowing lights of Vieux Carré; C......

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Categories: cajuns, city, nostalgia, places, travel,
Form: Rhyme
Delayed Consequences, Part I
...His name was Alex Bergeron, grew up west of New Orleans, from a line of backwoods Cajuns, went to school to follow his dreams. He grew to become a doctor, quickly built a name for himself, Al......

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Categories: cajuns, abortion, confusion, dark, death,
Form: Narrative



Premium Member Dramatis Personae - Players and Rogues
...Labyrinthia P. Babineaux …………… The White Witch of the Lower 9th Ward Papa Babineaux …………………………… The Father, an honest apothecary Algebra Babineaux ……………………… The even-tempered Mother B......

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Categories: cajuns, allegory, psychological,
Form: List
Craw-Fish Boil
...The leaves were turning red and gold; And frost was in the air. When they rounded up the Acadians, From Miquelon and Saint Pierre. It was a time for groaning; A cry from Cajun lips. When they......

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Categories: cajuns, allusion, angst, celebration, community,
Form: Rhyme
Swamp Witch
...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 Th......

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Categories: cajuns, america, fate, grave, magic,
Form: Rhyme



Wedding Visitors
...visitors arrive during Chicago’s snow storm— warm fire inside the Florida-boy wearing short sleeves and jeans— snow angels mother and father shouting, “Wear your jacket”— pneumonia i......

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Categories: cajuns, family, wedding, wedding,
Form: Haiku
Seafood Gumbo
...Seafood Gumbo Start with a dark brown Roux Just like those Cajuns do Next add the bell pepper and onion too Tomatoes and garlic cloves, just a few Cover it all with chicken stock as this ......

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Categories: cajuns, food
Form: Rhyme
New Orleans
...alive bright noisy different jovial pumping energetic outlandish musical death graves shrimp river boats voodoo floats Mardi Gras masks beads eateries fun swamps tour guide hors......

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Categories: cajuns, life, love,
Form: List
On the Bayou
...Louisiana Cajuns Eatin' hot cornbread, Chompin' aligator tail And suckin' crawfish heads. Eatin' jambalaya And gumbo stew: Gourmand, Sunday dinner, On the old bayou.......

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Categories: cajuns, food, funny, people, places,
Form: I do not know?

Book: Reflection on the Important Things