New Orleans Poems - Poems about New Orleans

...My 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 snu......Read the rest...

...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...

...By Cherbo Geeplay My wife whispered: somebody, go call Muna to come here. Let her tell her dad what she told me today. I asked: What’s going on behind those walls in her room? Muna, our da......Read the rest...

...By Cherbo Geeplay This, to the commanding officer who led his troops to war, on one knee and won in the trenches on the battlefield littered with landmines. I held your portrait sir, this......Read the rest...

...She was a sweet child born in Soyhern Texas Some time in 73 Her Moma was from Alabama Her Poppy from New Orleans A cheerleader and local beauty at 17 Some folk say around here She was the pre......Read the rest...

...He had a big schnozzola and sang with bold hat and smile. Heard on the old Victrola, one of his tricks to beguile. It was fo, lo, dee, oh, do, in old New Orleans city. But that was ages ago. ......Read the rest...

...Sheriff Koplin has ridden East to gather a few other folks who decided to leave the city and head West, hoping to settle in Milton Creek. I'm sure whoever they are will be good people and will be mad......Read the rest...

...Saint Tropez is a summer town. Smaller than it ought to be, really. Like when you realize the French quarter, in New Orleans, is just three blocks wide and long. In the fall, there’s a feeling ......Read the rest...

...Let'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. And Ha......Read the rest...

... There was a pretty young thing, from just outside of New Orleans, that worshipped the ground that he walked on. She was an innocent girl, not understanding how the world, could be so full of......Read the rest...

...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 ~......Read the rest...

...The versatile jazzy rhythm went boom boom bah bing We were dancing happily with a zany Zingily zing In the French quarter of New Orleans Pretending we were voodoo queens......Read the rest...

...They are my lucky pants, they come with me wherever They are my lucky pants, we will always be together They are navy blue nylon, not cotton or leather They are all purpose jogging pants for an......Read the rest...

... “And I remember Muscatine -still more pleasantly - for its summer sunset. I have never seen any on either side of the ocean that equaled them.” Samuel Clemens in his younger years when he wor......Read the rest...

...Crocodile picked up the fiddle and began to play Rabbit and raccoon began dancing a jig right away Other animals came up to the bayou to have a sing By the time night fell, New Orleans jazz music ......Read the rest...