Short Bayou Poems

night time orchids
blooming on the bayou
scented voodoo...

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the night breeze
caresses bayou orchids
    scented voodoo...

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In New Orleans, we 
Make crabs, crayfish, gumbo, then
We'll all come bayou!...

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     The Blues © 

Blues moaning and sad
Wail out over the bayou 
a song of heartbreak
...

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In my arms I will carry you
Feel no burden when I'm with you
Veins in my stems will follow you
I am your Tarlkin Bayou....

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Alligators stalk
Water moccasins stay clear
Frogs suddenly still
Old cypress trees water bound
Creaking in the bayou swamp...

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Daddy was a soldier, always had an itch
Down along the bayou, daddy served a hitch
Wouldn’t you know?
He loved Madam Laveau
Guess that makes me a son-of-a-witch...

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Jamie stood in silence staring listlessly at the calm bayou below. The water was almost glowing green; as it carried leaf after leaf miles from their trees of origin....

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Louisiana Cajuns 
Eatin'  hot cornbread,  
Chompin' aligator tail 
And suckin' crawfish heads.
Eatin' jambalaya 
And gumbo stew:
Gourmand, Sunday dinner,
On the old bayou....

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With the song of the crickets and ballet of fireflies, 
the Louisiana moon has nestled in the sky. 
"Bonsoir, mon amour", she whispers so sweet
while watching from above as we drift off to sleep....

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Alligator attacks prey
Lunges out of the bayou
Loud head slap
Intense jaw clamps down
Gripping death roll
Another muskrat say good bye
Tail spin immobolized
On it's way down
River bottom cries....

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Martian Gumbo

One of dem Saucer land in da Bayou
Ole Boudreaux out huntin say "Jus who be you?"
Den he point him shodgun
And say "Lookee here son...
Jus found some green OKRA to seasonne my stew!"...

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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 was in full swing....

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Whilst daylight  fades
night shades appear
To catch the fear
dancing naked 
Walk  sorry eyes
I'm thinking of the abandonment of love
I cant realise
things I cant walk in the sunshine
black shadow by the bayou
such bleak realisations...

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You never know what you're gonna get so I hope The Texas Tornado likes surprises...


“Life is like a box of chocolates” - Forrest Gump... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJh59vZ8ccc
 
To: Linda----PD from: TR, her neighbor from the Bayou...

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Blues tunes B.B.King sung 
Brilliant tunes on guitar
Boyhood played street corners 
Boisterous on Bayou 
Better World In Summit
Band played Jazz melody
Bright Riley than ever 


Pleiades 2 Poetry Contest
Sponsored by: Joseph May


10/19/2020...

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Whenever I visit the Louisiana bayou,
gator hunters fight and argue to have me on their crew.
I only bait their lines, I don't hunt the alligator.
All of the locals refer to me as The Master Baiter.
*
I don't like that reference actually.
I wish they'd come up with another nick name for me.
*...

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black-water canals
where alligators patrol
and moccasins wait

where starved mosquitoes
invade in hoards at twilight
thirsty for fresh blood

at morning's first light   
dawn illuminates cypress
birds announce sunrise

perilous beauty
on display in the Wetlands
and all is at peace...

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Lovely regal frogs from New Jersey are all that
Their swollen freckles puffed up big and fat.
Elaborate crowns are golden with emerald splat.
On lily pad thrones, they reside, true floating mats.
In the calm pond waters, they live away from big cats.
King and queen of the bayou, at Tornado Flats....

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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
His journey feels longer today than ever before
Horror story of alligator eating a man on the news this morning...

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you paint a picture with the words,
another world, where fly the birds,
and natures tune is strummed,
into Aussie's heads is drummed,
Crocs and Sharks will eat you chum,
but the new chums, aint perturbed?
they get eaten like a nerd,
where the Sand-Goannas run:)
sometimes ...

Don Johnson

re: Louisiana Bayou...Leo Larry Amadore...

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layers of fog             

                                            blanket the bayou

                                              obscuring vision

                                          the pungency of decay

                                            assaults my senses

3/17/15
For Andrea's Tanka 2 contest
6th place...

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Girl from a bajou
running wild
glowing in the Sun
she said my personality was cleared
and there was not anything lacking 
She's built  her palaces on parasols
When she was mine
The World seemed turning
Imagine never  having to frown,
by moonlight
I found my belle on my way home
she bestowed her trust in my hand
then bid me adieu...

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Bystanders of waves,
plethora of marine life;
Awe inspiring breach.

Bandeleros break
the grip of society;
Culture’s climate shifts.

Brackish voices sing
the blues inside the bayou;
Salty metaphors.

Background stars still shine
although they’re never in front;
Juxtaposition.

Back it up baby,
better give it all you got;
Befitting a boss.
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A Limerick Poem

AABBA

A limerick
A little windowpane trickled on the left behind diamond
A cosmic milky way, solitude, and Bed, bath and beyond
The word, to and fro, and surreal, a tenant, and the zealous zeal!
Where about of these, all , felt as drops for basil bill, a Duncan hill
A hue in the very first, in a hymn song? For Life, whittled.


3-9-2024
(Updated)
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