Long Big easy Poems

Walking down the alley behind the buildings on Royal street the Mandevilla and Jasmine vines line the sidewalk calming my stressed nerves.  The sweet fragrance of the flowers intoxicating my senses.  My luggage...

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Soon the sun will glow
Through the east facing blinds
I haven't worked in seven months
Yet I rise every day before him
And write a poem or two
The ceiling fan wobbles
Finches, sparrows and a cooing dove
Greet the dawn
Sweet...

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When others sleep 
I lie awake
Waiting
For night
To become day.

Rubbing 
The sun
From my eyes
Everything I 
Tried to forget
Comes back
Like an angry wave.

Hearing about the hurricane
And the neglect
I went to New Orleans
Barely knew the place
Only what I...

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Growing up, one thing my daddy told me,
day in day out:
Don’t you ever be no ne’er do good never not
He said, son, don’t be someone
who never know what they’re talking about,
Someone who’s always
talking out of...

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What's go great about New Orleans, Louisiana, is that of its jazz music and its voodoo culture. The city has been known as "The Big Easy" since the 1800s. It seems that all of the...

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Katrina:
                          The waters rise as the tears we cry,
 ...

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"Poetry The Big Easy"



Poetry
the Big Easy
going down 
on thoughts
Where are 
the real 
Strawberry Kisses
Silver Spoons
daily tasting their
game of Twister?
Where is the 
LIFE
coursing like 
sex through the 
veins
pumping Love
out onto a 
single
neverending 
line on a page?
The...

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Ever since I was a teen, I dreamed of seeing the land of Mardi Gras.
Visiting the Big Easy had become stuck deep inside my craw.
I wanted to see the French Quarter, a mystical place of...

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The Big Easy

Brash lady of the south, home of jazz and blues,
party town USA, brawling port of the nation, 
melting pot of cultures, the city of Hope,
and Queen of the Nile of the Americas....

.....She's the...

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" Hurricane Katrina "

She came upon us with all her fury
her force that was ugly and mean
she unpacked a damaging power
way down in the New Orlean.

Everyone knew she was coming
broadcast all over the news
chaos had...

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It was all good a week ago,
Bourbon Street was full of energy,
The air saturated with laughter, Gumbo, Jambalaya and Catfish.
The wind whispering sweet nothings in your ear,
Farewell to the last days of summer.
But in my...

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The time is fast approaching
We'll be on the move once more
Our life has had a number of chapters
Wondering what's next in store

I'm filled with great expectations
Can't imagine what lies ahead
Really hope things don't turn nasty
And...

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The time is fast approaching
We'll be on the move once more
Our life has had a number of chapters
Wondering what's next in store

I'm filled with great expectations
Can't imagine what lies ahead
Really hope things don't turn nasty
And...

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Magnolia-honey air, heavy with heat
Kudzu vines twining, knitting the city
Spanish moss masks the old hoyden,
and she manage to think herself pretty

Shutters, and fans lazily turning
keep the suffocating heat of afternoon at bay
Lanais and balconies, sanctuary...

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The time is fast approaching
We'll be on the move once more
Our life has had a number of chapters
Wondering what's next in store

I'm filled with great expectations
Can't imagine what lies ahead
Really hope things don't turn nasty
And...

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walking slow, oh it could be called dancing
crowded with Bourbon Street night people
music filling the air, we stop every so often
wrapped arms around each other and swayed

firing up to the already hot-blood New Orleans
seems to...

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Started drinking fruit flavoured water now
Not the tastiest but I'll keep trying, I vow

In the winter months I always seem to gain
Inactivity is the culprit, exercising's a pain

When I walk, it's much more like a...

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Started drinking fruit flavoured water now
Not the tastiest but I'll keep trying, I vow

In the winter months I always seem to gain
Inactivity is the culprit, exercising's a pain

When I walk, it's much more like a...

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Started drinking fruit flavoured water now
Not the tastiest but I'll keep trying, I vow

In the winter months I always seem to gain
Inactivity is the culprit, exercising's a pain

When I walk, it's much more like a...

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You don’t wanna meet Joey Fatone 
He’s a Jersey Devil
with a Tasmanian attitude

Street whispers say, 
“Baby” is a notch below
asylum certifiable

A wise guy, gator gait    bad to the bone
Known to go postal...

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Watch for Pickpockets

By Elton Camp

The prospect of a trip to the Big Easy
Made me more than a little queasy
I’d had visited in New Orleans before
And now the danger was even more

It was because of the...

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Written By:  D. Collins 11/17/15

Let me bring ya’ll back to what it once was.
That sweet, Gumbo flavor on the tip of your tongue.
We had The Meters, Chocolate Milk, and Fats Domino.
Louie Armstrong and the...

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The broad view that I have from your big easy chair,
Has not really changed so much since when you were sitting there.
Mount Baker still stands tall; she hasn't blown her top.
When she steamed away, I've...

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To experience the Great Pyramids of Giza 
see them with my own eyes;
To experience Italy would be a dream,
or just eat my way through the city;
To experience the streets of Dublin,
I’d love to finally find...

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A young friendly hippopotamus
lived by the river, across from us
Then one day five hunters came 
Looking to shoot big easy game. 
*
They put five bullets in his head
And now our friendly hippos dead
They should...

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