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Crawfish Poems - Poems about Crawfish

Premium MemberCrawfish Dinner

...We're gonna dance all night on the Bayou
We're gonna play all day in the shade
We're gonna eat and drink me oh my oh
Just as soon as everyone gets paid

We're gonna go to church on Sunday mornin...
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Categories: crawfish, Lullaby,
Form: Lyric

Return to Bourbon

..."Return to Bourbon" (The Gritty Underbelly of New Orleans)


 I left my soul in a crawfish boil
 And my transgressions in a taxicab, Where the driver was blind in one eye
 And the meter was stab...
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Categories: crawfish, angst, emotions, lost,
Form: Free verse



Premium MemberAlaskan Hairy Man

...reclusive hairy man is shy
hides out in secluded parts of Alaska wilderness
lives on mussels and crawfish
part of an ancient cryptid race
creeps up to igloos at night
peers in at children
inser...
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Categories: crawfish, dream,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberNew Menu at Milton Creek's Aces Restaurant

...*** Notice to the residents of Milton Creek ***

Tom serves as mayor. never complaining, so he gets what he requests 
No blood in his steak, apple pie with sweet cream. Aces cooks that meal
to pe...
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Categories: crawfish, people, places,
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member12 Days of Christmas In New Orleans

...On the 1st day of Christmas my hometown gave to me 
a ride in Rex's Mardi Gras parade

On the 2nd day of Christmas my hometown gave to me
2 mosquitoes buzzin' and 
a ride in Rex's Mardi ...
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Categories: crawfish, christmas, home,
Form: Lyric



I Am From

...I am from fast-food,
From paper plates and dinners in front of the t.v.
I am from the stale stubborn silence,
Eating away at smiles
I am from the Lily flowers, resting in the corner
The Willow t...
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Categories: crawfish, 10th grade, family, time,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberCritterature: Concerning the Crafty Crayfish

...By many aliases they're known:
Crawfish, crawdads, mudbugs, yabbies.
They abound in brooks, and streams, and swamps,
As well as roadside ditches and rice paddies.

Their astacology has shown
Th...
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Categories: crawfish, animal, humor,
Form: Light Verse

Premium MemberCrawfish Cornbread Stuffing

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It all starts with the cornbread
buttermilk, of course
seared in an iron skillet
crunchy outer crust
southern tradition
slap-your-mom
good!

Crawfish, Andouille sausage,
crumbled u...
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Categories: crawfish, appreciation, food, thanksgiving,
Form: Epulaeryu

Premium MemberShellfish Ken

...There’s crustaceans in my rations,
And the krill are in my pills.
There’s a prawn on my lawn,
And all this gives me chills.
There’s an oyster who is cloistered
With a crawfish in a dish,
But th...
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Categories: crawfish, nonsense, nursery rhyme, silly,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberMy Cajun Backyard Nest

...When it rains
the grass grows greener
and thick like a forest of trees 
in my back yard
Mr. Bojangles, the housecat 
slowly stalks its prey 
of wizard-like lizards scattering away.

With noth...
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Categories: crawfish, beauty, nature,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberFinally Home

...For love of night I claimed my fears released them to the moon 
like a crawfish in the sand I sifted through my magical runes 
seeking symbols and answers but only finding the quiet croon 
of a lo...
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Categories: crawfish, appreciation, imagination, life, sea,
Form: Free verse

Mardi Gras Mambo

...That season comes and go,
The parties in the streets are hot.
Balls are held in name for the Krewe,
The Crowning of the King and Queen.

 Crowds are gathered down the cobbled roads.
Parades are...
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Categories: crawfish, celebration, holiday,
Form: Couplet

Premium MemberXerxes Surveys His Realm

...Time slips through my fingers like so much water and the fabric of existence drapes more loosely on my soul than has ever been my wish to experience. 
The royal garment makers here at court have nee...
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Categories: crawfish, allegory, food,
Form: Blank verse

Premium MemberA Wall In the Woods

...The wall would not hinder my fall,
the tumble i take for memory’s sake.
Childhood sees fairylands, vast —
but as small as a neighborhood lake.
The woods with its creek and crawfish,
an older kid...
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Categories: crawfish, memory,
Form: Verse

Premium MemberSurrcomming Sours Salads Wishes-

...Smelly zucchini 
Disappears like Houdini 
Only this 
And crawfish 
And my mind straight to potatoes 
As I'm stepping on tomatoes 
I discovered artichokes 
Swallowing carp fish bon...
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Categories: crawfish, adventure, analogy, character, food,
Form: Free verse

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