Long Mardi Poems
Long Mardi Poems. Below are the most popular long Mardi by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Mardi poems by poem length and keyword.
The Bate's Motel Does Exist - 1st HalfHere's the scoop, friends...like a bunch of my pieces now posted - and coming soon - this is, as indicated, the 1st HALF of this fairly lengthy poem. The 2nd half had to be posted...
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Categories:
mardi, humor,
Form:
Narrative
Last Rose For a Rebel - Part 2(continued)
She wanted me to re-marry, you see, but I never did.
Oh, I had a few trysts, here-and-there,
just to remind myself the plumbing still worked,
but all it REALLY did was remind me
how much more incredible making...
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Categories:
mardi, fantasy, history, soulmate, true love,
Form:
Free verse
Tell Her You Saw MeTell her you saw me ...
Tell her I was out on the bluff at the Cape
during a gale, much too close to the rocks.
Tell her the surf was tormenting the ledges,
its roar far too loud...
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Categories:
mardi, allegory, heartbreak, lost love,
Form:
Free verse
Motion Sickness
My people love marching!
Attending rain dancing parades,
doing a bunch of fire-breathing talking
Little drummer boys and girls
playing foot soldier pretend grown up
Just defending the truth,
those marionette walkers will yell at you
in designer protest fashion
Motion activate the...
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Categories:
mardi, allusion, culture, leadership, truth,
Form:
Elegy
Mardi At the DarbyMardi was at the Darby;
Yet he was not invited to the party;
Very upset at what he could not get;
He went over to the teller to make a bet.
“Mardi, you came to the Darby,” the...
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Categories:
mardi, addiction, appreciation, fairy, faith, farm, horse, money,
Form:
Rhyme
The City of Lost SoulsBeware, out-Lander for thy tread on the sacred ground,
Of Louisiana, guarded by the ghosts of the Mississippi,
And here the dead tell know tails, of the living's returning,
After adventuring into the darkness of the night.
Rattle them...
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Categories:
mardi, culture, evil, gothic, halloween, history, imagery,
Form:
Free verse
Valueship hip hurrah, herc shot hera
sick sad era, tri city terror
dirty land lover, lips hit terra
karma bent over, messenger error
never say neva, davin say better
no pain no gain, accept the rainy weather
paint a pic...
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Categories:
mardi, allegory, imagination, metaphor, philosophy, song-spiritual, visionary, life,
Form:
Rhyme
Dreams, Visions, Day-mares and Nightmares part oneLet's start out with my nightmares, I used to have them revolving around jack
a lanterns that got so horrific, for numerous years I was unable to even look at
a carved Halloween pumpkin. ...
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Categories:
mardi, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 6th
Form:
Prose
12 Days of Christmas In New OrleansOn the 1st day of Christmas my hometown gave to me
a ride in Rex's Mardi Gras parade
On the 2nd day of Christmas my hometown gave to me
2 mosquitoes buzzin' and
a ride in Rex's...
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Categories:
mardi, christmas, home,
Form:
Lyric
Cajun Creed Will Get RevengeI've been doin' time, sittin in this jail cell for too long.
Yea, I made mistakes because I was headstrong
when I killed Isabelle, but it's what she deserved.
She ran off with my coke and money. That...
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Categories:
mardi, fantasy,
Form:
Rhyme
About Me - P.D."TELL YOU ABOUT ME "
Born a full blown Libra to a scale of blind justice
My hair & eyes are brown as can be
I come from a large family
Don't like to be called...
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Categories:
mardi, life, lovecare, me, care, love, me,
Form:
Narrative
We're Gonna Feel Just FineMy friends said C’mon let’s go, let’s head on down to Mexico.’
We’ll drink up all their tequila and we’ll snort up all their blow.
My friends said c’mon let’s go, out to Aspen, Colorado.
We’ll snuggle with...
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Categories:
mardi, poetry,
Form:
Lyric
Mardi GrasMardi Gras
Ever since the flames licked
my fair pink burning flesh,
nothing in my life has remained the same.
I had to go back in to
save my little brother Chris.
Life without him would kill...
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Categories:
mardi, family, fantasy, happiness, imagination, love, teen, upliftingschool,
Form:
Free verse
Moon PeopleWhen 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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Categories:
mardi, introspectionold, old,
Form:
Narrative
Bible StudyThe earth was void and without form…
And the voice of the Lord was upon the waters…
In the roll of a tsunami wave across the Pacific
Born of a collapsing mountain deep in the sea
And in the...
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Categories:
mardi, bible, religious, weather,
Form:
Didactic
A Stroll Through the French QuarterSome would call me homeless. I call myself a traveler. In this city I traverse the wonder of human art and nature's beauty as if the two have melded together as one. ...
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Categories:
mardi, imagery,
Form:
Haibun
K-VilleMeth Bomb, Homicide Village,
Diverse Culture Site, Crown Town,
Kendaltucky and Johnny Appleseed's Homestead;
Tremendous and Troubling and Tortured,
Town of the Long Face:
They say you are explosive, and that is valid; I know...
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Categories:
mardi, absence, child, home, old,
Form:
Free verse
A Twisted Tale -Jane's Jewel-Mardi Gras "The Medieval Story"
On a hot, heavy night in Orleans,
Joan and Jane were seen rubbing chest on chest
An inviting, intimate moment, to undress
Two pretty trimmed tops, eating like dames
They touched in ways,...
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Categories:
mardi, adventure, celebration, dark, death, passion, sexy, society,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Ein Reich Ein Volkthey snorted and toiled
the sound of swords being hammered
the vanquished lay screaming
a tale of rank deception
with a maniac for the wind
and damnation in the boilers
trailing smoke and scrap metal
basically they peel your skin off
and noisily...
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Categories:
mardi, how i feel,
Form:
Free verse
New Orleans, Louisiana: Aka the Big EasyWhat'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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Categories:
mardi, adventure, on writing and words, places, travel,
Form:
Ode
Flippa
When Katrina came calling,
Lady Blues brought some
Miami Hurricane bad news
Green Dolphin Street pain parade
went Mardi Gras wind marching
down to the delta swamp of Nawl ‘Leans
And the lewd crowd’s demonic gust marlin friend,
Flippa,
was cyclone...
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Categories:
mardi, dark, natural disasters, pain, truth,
Form:
Narrative
Beads and BugsThis plague is real-for sure
where it came from
(CHINA)-is undeniable...
but was the little devil
birthed by a bigger devil
did it slip away from a Wuhan lab
or explode from a wet market bat...
truth is a rose-
evil is a...
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Categories:
mardi, corruption,
Form:
Free verse
Should the Levee Ever Break, Act 1, Scene 1, Part 2Allow me the opportunity to acquaint you with a few particulars regarding the background to our story and place the principals securely in the context of the setting in which we take our sojourn with...
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Categories:
mardi, allegory,
Form:
Prose
RubyRuby
Ruby Bridges was one of the first Black American pupils
in a 'White' school
after racial segregation was declared unconstitutional.
It was November 14th, 1960 when six year old Ruby sat in school alone,
children and teachers stayed...
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Categories:
mardi, black african american, discrimination, freedom, racism, society,
Form:
Free verse
My Foolish HeartEver 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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Categories:
mardi, vacation,
Form:
Rhyme