Crawfish 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
Alaskan 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
New 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
12 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
Critterature: 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
Crawfish 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
Shellfish 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
My 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
Finally 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
Xerxes 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
A 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
Surrcomming 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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