Galveston Poems - Poems about Galveston

...Largely overlooked Juneteenth Independence Day, Freedom Day Emancipation Day – commemorates the end of slavery In the United States Most States that is There are 20 states still holding out I......Read the rest...

...Where have you been Darkened with uncertainty No place to be found Chanted spiritual songs within one’s encouraging thought I need to be free I pray to thee Thunder raw Lightening outburst Sl......Read the rest...

...June nineteenth one hundred and fifty years ago Juneteenth hint: three hundred and sixty six days after eighteen sixty four. Major General Gordon Granger led the Union Soldiers to Galveston,......Read the rest...

..."He made a difference." Gramps, my mother's father, Dave Luke -- my grandfather, a tall unlettered white (decidedly white) Louisiana man -- was born August 1888. He lived 87 years. He gr......Read the rest...

...Licky butt, oh, licky butt Lick your bum my lovely puppy Gonna feed you a dead guppy It's belly up So feed it to the pup.......Read the rest...

...I sat in a flop house common room Doing social research one Christmas Eve, Galveston in '79, I do believe. I was there in a room full of strangers. Sammy Davis and Old Blue Eyes Sang on the TV ......Read the rest...

...Mitchell: Good sirs, my word was fair. No discrepancy stains the pages of my ledger. The fifth tier is a sub-basement beneath the cellar floor of the temple’s vestibule. Any woman who is not tagged w......Read the rest...

...It was dusty, dry and endless Stretched beneath an empty sky From horizon to horizon Where the turkey buzzards fly, Like a landscape meant to warn you Just how far a man can fall. Except for ......Read the rest...

...(This piece is dedicated to those innocent youths gunned down inside institutes of learning, by guns improperly regulated, and utilized by cold, heartless entities who committed these crimes without ......Read the rest...

...Jubilant celebrations ring out all over the United States of America each year on the Nineteenth of June, to be exact; commemo......Read the rest...

...Jubilation in the city of Galveston ensued when Union soldiers brought to the enslaved News of an Emancipation that had been proclaimed by Lincoln Two ......Read the rest...

...As I walk along the beach over head the grey gulls screech Lapping waves upon the shore, who could ever ask for more. Ocean breeze upon my face; palm trees flutter on the lawn. Galves......Read the rest...

...Wish I was somewhere else today I ain't partic'lar where Maybe upon a mountain top Breathin' that cool blue air Or I could fish a mountain stream Catch me a big fat trout Maybe wander to Galv......Read the rest...

...Ava - I spoke to your half sister today. She says it’s warm in Albuquerque. She tells you hello and to please wish your mother, her step-mother, a happy Mother’s Day on her behalf. She asked ......Read the rest...

...(Taking headlines from October 1964, the poem revisits our shared experience ...) Monday 5: Fifty-Four East Germans Tunnel to Freedom Back then, it was not in doubt, (Richard Burton Tony Quin......Read the rest...