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Bayou Bliss

...Uh huh
Jambalaya
Uh oh
Crawdad gumbo
That spice
It’s Cajun nice

Girl there
With long blonde hair
She’s flame
and can’t be tamed
Legs long
Bayou beat song

So nice
Red beans and rice
...

Categories: etouffee, desire, food, lust, sensual,
Form: Sonnet

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...

Categories: etouffee, people, places,
Form: Rhyme

Fat City Kitty Cat

...In Gentilly she reigns as Bastet, the daughter of Ra,
An unrepentant drop of golden sun. 
Then come some rascal Baphomet, an outcast by law,
A desperado conman on the run.
She teased him with her...

Categories: etouffee, allegory, satire,
Form: Burlesque

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

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...

Categories: etouffee, allegory, food,
Form: Blank verse

Old New Orleans

...Old New Orleans

Written By:  D. Collins 10/21/14

Back in old New Orleans long, before Katrina came.
The Wild Tchopitoulas were the neigh...

Categories: etouffee, appreciation, city,
Form: Couplet

Luftmenschen Continuum

...by Michaelw1two

 Thinking’s challenge is to weigh,
 all of one’s life substance;
 quandary thus, illogical fuss,
 which blinds the mind's acutance;
 adscititiously into thoughts bleed,
 vitiated ind...

Categories: etouffee, political,
Form: Free verse