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Louisiana Poems - Poems about Louisiana

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...Try mumbo jumbo chicken gumbo soup saith dumbo Yours truly an unfortunate hostage within *****sapien zoo presenting poetic hodge podge and mish mash to you looking for unwitting subject(s) to......Read the rest...
Categories: louisiana, america, appreciation, april, food,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Her Wedding Day
...Based upon an entry in the mid-19th Century autobiography of Presbyterian Theodore Clapp, who lived for several decades in New Orleans, Louisiana. Of the many young brides who I’ve married, None ......Read the rest...
Categories: louisiana, death, family, grief, heartbreak,
Form: Elegy
i would like to be twelve millions kilometres away
...I would like to be twelve million kilometers away From this stupid town, I’d like to be in Minnesota, To burn all my poems in your hungry eyes, I want to get away from those raptors that steal my ......Read the rest...
Categories: louisiana, allegory, imagination, travel,
Form: Free verse
O Mardi Gras
... 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 ro......Read the rest...
Categories: louisiana, celebration, day, happiness, night,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Louisiana Poetry
...She said, "Darkness bores my soul" Give me the bright the light the white But I don't think that's right. I've written poetry that was beautiful. in a hurricane by flashlight... ©Sa......Read the rest...
Categories: louisiana, poetry, write,
Form: Rhyme



Leaving a book incompletely read tantamount to being sacrilegious
...Preface: On February 4, 1861, the seven states that had seceded by this point convened and created the Confederate States of America under the leadership of Jefferson Davis. Just under two m......Read the rest...
Categories: louisiana, absence, america, anxiety, baptism,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Monarch Butterfly
...I am the monarch of the sky can outdistance by the miles every insect, every time heavy rain or bright sunshine like a fearless horse I run in the heart of boisterous winds like a skater coast......Read the rest...
Categories: louisiana, butterfly,
Form: Personification
The Pebble
...If you have a little rock in your shoe, You will not cross Alabama, You will not cross Louisiana, You’ll have to remove it first, In poetry, it is the opposite, If you have a small pebble in ......Read the rest...
Categories: louisiana, extended metaphor, inspiration, moving
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Its What People Say
...From the fiery hills of Maui to the dry Canadian brush from the flat lands of the delta down to Texas on the gulf. The weather’s downright awful you can hear the people say, summers sometimes......Read the rest...
Categories: louisiana, humor, summer, weather,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A Day Late But Not Forgotten
...A Day Late but not forgotten By Franklin Price 08/19/2023 Nineteen months and a day ago, my Barbara left this life She was my muse, my lover, was my darling and my wife. I'm in a Louisiana mot......Read the rest...
Categories: louisiana, anxiety, god, granddaughter, love,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Louisiana Bayou
...Louisiana bayou full of pythons and alligators The boatman glides through the water holding his breath Wondering if something will get him By falling out of a tree or overturning his flimsy boat ......Read the rest...
Categories: louisiana, travel,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Zydeco House Party
...The bayou sky flies a catfish moon over swamp gators And cottonmouth vipers. Accordions, fiddles, and rub board vests Make their ramble through the undergrowth hot on the trail Of a sultry midsu......Read the rest...
Categories: louisiana, allegory, america, celebration,
Form: Blank verse
Premium Member My Piano Teacher
...Piano Teacher Adored her timely teaching skills Adored the way she never yelled nor screamed! even when my Piano lesson bored the heck out of me and my fingers hurt badly you see we had n......Read the rest...
Categories: louisiana, career, celebration, culture, feelings,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Greatest Generation
...Being privileged to have known scores of Americans known as 'the greatest generation', I attest to the reality of their greatness. Herein, greatness will not reference those who went off to war......Read the rest...
Categories: louisiana, america, family,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member I Love You Elvis
... Elvis Aaron Presley, Elvis, came from poor beginnings born in Tupelo, Mississippi to Vernon and Gladys this boy loved the gospel music in church . . . . at thirteen his family moved to Me......Read the rest...
Categories: louisiana, music, tribute,
Form: Bio

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