Galveston Poems - Poems about Galveston

...Cowboy poem Cityscape, tall building, and smog-filled evening sky In New York, no one sleeps here; a camel smokes a cigarette and no one  finds that unusual The big apple, tall women, and juicy......

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...We know the secret to winning The sweet fennel sausage with sweet relish and eggnog yeast rolls. The toll of the roll with caramelized onions The dungeon were the tomato's Ripen is scrubbing ......

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...June nineteenth one hundred and fifty nine years ago The conclusion of the American Civil War commenced with the articles of surrender agreement of the Army of Northern Virginia on April 9, at App......

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... Joyful celebrations are held in the United States on the Nineteenth of June. Thousands participate Every year. Why? In Galveston, Texas, on June 19, 1865, by Executive order, ALL stil......

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... A JUNETEENTH PRAYER Closing our eyes is easy…it’s probably the best way to think, to hope, to dream…to make a wish…to kiss…to pray. The quiet darkness behind our eyes is where we start to h......

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... (*)v(*) (*)v(*) (*)v(*) (*)v(*) (*)v(*) The Sea of Galilee aint in Texas good l......

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...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......

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...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......

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...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,......

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..."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......

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...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.......

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...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 ......

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...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......

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...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 ......

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...(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 ......

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