Carolina Poems - Poems about Carolina

... once again memories of sweet shrub quietly imposes its luscious scent red to rust blossoms ......Read the rest...

...Churches sit upon red hills And blue birdsong such a thrill Romantic eyes looks that kill Onyx night sky blue and still Lovely southern accent that rings In ears like song of sweetest dreams N......Read the rest...

...Written By: D. Collins 2/26/24 When I hear "a country of immigrants" I wince in pain. Because one ethnic group traveled here in chains. ......Read the rest...

...Upon approaching advent of an early spring 2024 (alternately titled GENESIS RESPLENDENT) No matter the calendrical/official onset of vernal equinox takes places Tuesday, Mar 19, 2024 and transpi......Read the rest...

...I have a slavery folktale of my own I am Mae Rock, and I was once a slave Always taught being black you must behave How did I get the name Mae Rock? I was named for Unbreakable, Unstoppable and S......Read the rest...

...Preface: On February 4, 1861, the seven states that had seceded by this point convened and created the Confederate States of America under the leadership of Jefferson Davis. Just under two m......Read the rest...

...North Carolina ballerina, sweet lady of the Piedmont, she so sterling, died from the selfishness of a drunk driver. Gliding into a pirouette as she enters God's garden of youth. The anguish......Read the rest...

...Purple phone on the piano Red rings sing of missed rendezvous I’m sure it is my fuchsia fellow But what’s a cocoa girl to do I’m in love with music and neon notes Are so fun to tangerine disc......Read the rest...

...Winter sun is yellow gold Making mud run of melting snow And Carolina clay is frozen hill Where kids sled and play at will Frosted sky with cotton cloud In the eye of guy driving snow plow He......Read the rest...

...In South Carolina, walking to his car outside of Brew's Bar peacefully, twenty year old Sean William Kennedy, was punched in the face and died that day, simply because he was gay. Us members o......Read the rest...

...A woman on her daily walk was serenaded by a cardinal, a blue jay, and a Carolina wren— or so she thought. Imagine how surprised she would have been to learn it was I, a mockingbird perched on a l......Read the rest...

...We interrupt our program to bring you this imporrr…tant messssssss… White wall… canvas of blood… symmetrical… battered consciousness of time…signals switched? (Aberration) password: “pepper”......Read the rest...

...Jose Mendoza, was a young migrant farmworker, he was harvesting sweet potatoes on Barnes Farming property in Spring Hope, North Carolina on September 5, 2023. The temperature was in the 90's, a......Read the rest...

...We built a snowman the other day when winter had the gall to visit North Carolina…in the middle of the Fall We went back the next day to visit our snowman… to the exact post we set him on but s......Read the rest...

...Some days when I wake up….I have this comfort system I employ… I list a few things…a kind of free association…that I’ve found bring me joy. I have discovered here in North Carolina…a different lo......Read the rest...