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Lafayette Poems - Poems about Lafayette

Love of a lifetime at Lafayette
...Foundation. I took some flowers to the cemetery and saw a man in deep conversation And wondered what he might be saying? Love of a lifetime at Lafayette (A lone voice whispers) I once r......

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Categories: lafayette, grief,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Each Small Ornament Reminds Me of You
...I always considered you littered my home, Small knickknacks adorning overcrowded shelves. The marble statues you bought from lovely Rome, I leave them there, a memory of ourselves. And in gay P......

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Categories: lafayette, appreciation, memory,
Form: Rhyme



Dizzy, But Never Far From Home
...T'was a man named Dizzy from Lafayette, but sometimes his way home he would forget. So he carried in his coat pocket, a deck of cards and a lucky locket. When he found himself lost and all ......

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Categories: lafayette, games, home, humor,
Form: Rhyme
On Monmouth's Fields, Part Ii
......He reformed the routing patriots, formed a line atop a rise, Perrine’s Hill, brought in General Knox and the artillery, commanding the mass through sheer force of will. He needed to buy time......

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Categories: lafayette, america, conflict, confusion, england,
Form: Epic
On Monmouth's Fields, Part I
...In June of seventeen seventy-eight General Clinton led British troops north, forced to abandon Philadelphia, he now marched leisurely for New York. He knew American troops shadowed him, and he......

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Categories: lafayette, america, conflict, confusion, england,
Form: Epic



My Respnse To Church Questions
...St. James Discernment Question Answers Thank you answering these questions and helping the Discernment Committee with it's work. From: James Thomas Horn #1 Remember a moment that was a high po......

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Categories: lafayette, allegory, analogy,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur
...Now I'm a nine year old female African American girl; A prodigy and I am a daddy's girl Mom puts my hair in a bun Yes, I'm nine but I'm to smart to play with crayons Roarrrrrrrrrr ZZZZZZZZ I hav......

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Categories: lafayette, best friend, friendship, hero,
Form: Heroic Couplet
Older Than Columbus
...New Jersey has a special tree, A sturdy, mammoth oak, Beneath whose shade George Washington And Lafayette once spoke. The tree was there before, from Spain, Columbus started out. The experts ......

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Categories: lafayette, tree,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Noises and Electric
...Lafayette we are a shamble of noises digging the street and towing cars as I told you so for my two twenty that I pay for and you delivered hundred ten or may be a sewer to extinguish a fire sto......

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Categories: lafayette, political,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Paris
...Morocco say my Ameriscam passport blue eyed, blond hair and a smile I pass any doors no questions asked. If need be I shove the French one the address Lafayette avenue can I be more clear of m......

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Categories: lafayette, war,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Lost Cause
...man created thunder awakening brooklyn with the promise of hell to come if god is generous it will rain on the night of unregulated fire works for dogs and cats not to fear the roar of drunken hool......

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Categories: lafayette, firework,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Lost
...I lost my outside cat tonight a dear to me I am drenched in tears as I will miss the company of rubs and what not looking for a meal and share of fleas my heart broken again all old lady tol......

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Categories: lafayette, absence,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Lafayette
...Gilbert du Motier, La Marquis de Lafayette-- A hero American patriots should not forget. He helped us win the Revolutionary War. In Paris, rests 'neath American soil ever more.......

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Categories: lafayette, america, friend, hero, history,
Form: Clerihew
Premium Member Dad Never Knew His Father
...Dad never knew his father. That soldier died in a war. All Dad heard was brief stories of the man that went before. Grandma had some pictures and some medals on a wall. But Dad never knew his fat......

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Categories: lafayette, absence, father, grandfather, patriotic,
Form: Couplet
In the City Cafe of Tunis
...We, pedestrians, who love open range walk in and out for freedom and bread. It is now high time for autumnal change And the city streets are propelling us ahead. Reality is contained and so in it is......

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Categories: lafayette, people, city, drink,
Form: Verse

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