Gras Poems - Poems about Gras

Mardi Gras of twenty nineteen Was the best parade I have ever seen If anyone can top it, it will be New Orleans Where I hope someday to become the Mardi Gras Queen...

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O Mardi Gras, how I long for thee The carnival season of music and glee The colorful floats, the beads, and the masks The joyful crowds, the drinks, and the flasks I wait by the roadside, eager and keen To catch a glimpse of the dazzling scene I hear the trumpets, the drums, and the cheers I feel the excitement, the thrills,...

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It's Mardi Gras time down in New Orleans ~ it's a carnival of memes Where the people sing and play ~ there's music in the streets, both night and day Everybody's having fun and drinking wine ~ because it's carnival time "Throw me something mister" as parades go by ~ that's the Mardi Gras cry Bourbon Street...

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You rented a place on Bourbon Street? Oh, yes, in New Orleans, of course I did. The old man stared deeply into my eyes Not from Mardi Gras Matti, I hope! I burst out laughing and nodded my head. Yes, I did, I told him. She is so colorful! I loved her instantly! She has such charm. She is a voodoo priestess,...

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Mardi Gras has finally come to town Bourbon Street is getting ready for the best party around Let the party begin as the neon lights get the revellers dancing through the streets Music from various artists with unique and powerful beats The windows and the doors from balconies fling open with no time to spare Brightly coloured beads...

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Cafe Beignet on eve of Mardi Gras Fat Tuesday is consuming everyone New Orleans is magnet, nothing will mar Their patience rewarded fun has begun. Astounding parade enjoyed far and wide Bourbon Street echoes with laughter unfeigned Colourful costumes flowing like rip-tide River of creation so unrestrained. Marvellous memories of the parade When all were united in sense of fun Twirling umbrellas so jauntily swayed Spectacle...

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Mardi Gras parades are rolling the streets again I watched 'Isis' from inside my windowpane A king and a queen were pretending to reign but from the colorful revelry I chose to abstain I grew up yelling, "Throw me something mister!" Going to many parades with friends and my sister. Walked miles on St. Charles Ave. and got a blister and smiled...

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fat Tuesday pancake day- mardi gras some say...

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Girls Gone Wild Careful, you may just have a child Drugs and alcohol plague the alleyway Stay away as there is a price to pay Is the meaning of Mardi Gras to go buck wild Let’s look and see if it’s been defiled It started as a custom of using all the fats in the house I wonder if...

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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 rolling through, Food cooking through the day, Crawfish boiling in the pot, Those spices wafting in the air, Drinks pouring everywhere. New Orleans and all of Southern Louisiana. Dancing...

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i caught what we we're talking about finding out perhaps i was pate spread on cracker pieces that fell into my beard but i heard what i thought was an open and shut case but not my place to say hey i think i knew this from before but not knowing when before was and so turned and looked in a mirror and saw somebody i don't even...

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So here's to Happy Tubby Tuesday, The big New Orleans jazz & blues day, With the drunken revelers en masse... On second thought, let's give it a pass. (sorry)...

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What is Fat Tuesday? To disgorge your wicked ways, be impish and play....

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This Tuesday will be the fat day, to purge all your sin on the streets. The sun will bring the ash of Wednesday, with foreheads displaying the Holy Trinity. Masks of feathers and gold, beautiful and sublime People with umbrellas dancing to the second line. "Laissez bon temps les rouler!" A Crowd gathers around and shouts. Surrounded by large floats, that make leeway. As...

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New Orleans Great fanfare Parades and festivities Flamboyance Glamorous exuberance Vivid colors Feathers and costumes Strings of beads Strewn everywhere Loud blaring music Frenzied partying Right on through to Shrove Tuesday AP: Honorable Mention 2020 Posted on February 23, 2019...

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