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Orleans Poems - Poems about Orleans

Orleans Poems - Examples of all types of poems about orleans to share and read. This list of new poems is composed of the works of modern poets of PoetrySoup. Read short, long, best, and famous examples for orleans.
We're Gonna Feel Just Fine
...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...
Categories: orleans, poetry,
Form: Lyric



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: orleans, death, family, grief, heartbreak,
Form: Elegy
BEHIND THOSE WALLS
...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...
Categories: orleans, depression, gender, literature, metaphor,
Form: Free verse
Heart of Courage
...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...
Categories: orleans, christmas, courage, rights, tribute,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member MAID OF ORLEANS-Legend Poetry Contest
...“There is no question that the hero or heroin will take the quest, for he or she was born with the pathway etched in their soul.” (quote by the poet) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ From the ru......Read the rest...
Categories: orleans, hero,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member The Prettist Cowgirl Anyone Had Seen
...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...
Categories: orleans, drink,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member You Know Who
...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...
Categories: orleans, celebrity, city, fun, riddle,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member MILTON CREEK NEWS
...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...
Categories: orleans, places,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member the fall of Saint Tropez
...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...
Categories: orleans, autumn, beauty, lost, ocean,
Form: Free verse
Dreams, Visions, Day-mares and Nightmares part one
...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...
Categories: orleans, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Prose
There’s a Girl I Knew
... 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...
Categories: orleans, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Mardi Gras in New Orleans
...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...
Categories: orleans, celebration,
Form: Monoku
Premium Member jazzy rhythm
...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...
Categories: orleans, music,
Form: Free verse
The Traveling Pants
...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...
Categories: orleans, clothes, places, seasons, together,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Thoughts on Iowa and My Childhood City
... “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...
Categories: orleans, places, youth,
Form: Prose Poetry

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