Short Mississippi River Poems

Her strong and mighty currents flow
From Ohio Valley
South to the Gulf of Mexico
Alligator Alley...

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Mint juleps in the sweet air
Catfish are jumping everywhere and
The Mississippi River is flowing
Fireflies serenading in the moonlight...

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Sumac burns bluffside
                White Pelicans unfurl flight
                              River fog cloaks me...

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hey
my name is 
Frederick Jumbo MacWillie
and
i'm just sitting 
up here
rollin' on the river
near the banks of
the 
Great Mississippi River
and
witnessing a glorious
banana yellow cockatoo sunrise...

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well, something
happen
that evening
on the
back porch
along the
Mississippi River
the cherry wood
chimes jingled
in unison
playing an 
on old
Negro Tune
called, 
"Wade In the Water"
the cherry wood
keep singing
along...

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Her voice was soft on the telephone
She had gentility, like the part of the city she once lived

We talked of tragedy and chicory coffee
My friends had told me the situation was still grim

I asked her of Galatoire's and Brennan's
Of the Ninth Ward, and of her home

While I, pining and homesick, sipped coffee the color
Of the mulatto Mississippi River. . .

So polite and patient she was
For one who had lost everything...

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As the Mississippi River course to sea
Delahoussaye, who lives on Atchafalaya
Won't just let life this time be
Can't enjoy at his home jambalaya
For his yard will become playa


(Information from internet:
Delahoussaye is a biologist and archaelogist
who lives 200 ft from the Atchafalaya 
River but must leave because of the
coming flood..Playa is a dry basin that 
becomes flooded..)
Don't think this one is an entry yet.....

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Roses are red, violets are blue,
i wanted a grandson and god gave me you.

I knew we would fish, sometimes all day long,
and then we would end our night in a song.

I know you're getting big,
and someday you'll drive your rig.

But never forget, you'll always hold
the key to my heart.
. 
       Love Grannypants
p.s. get yer fishin'pole ready
'cause there's fish to be had at the riverssippi

(My grandson always called the mississippi river,
the riverssippi)...

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