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Shreveport Poems - Poems about Shreveport


Premium Member Uncle Sam I Am
...Who is this Uncle Sam? And why ain't he around? I search from state to state, But he's nowhere to be found I've looked in every corner, Of the good ole USA. In Shreveport and Chicago, From ......

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Categories: shreveport, america,
Form: Rhyme
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......

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Categories: shreveport, allegory, america, celebration,
Form: Blank verse



Car Wreck Psychodrama
...My YouTube Russian car crash wreckophilia comes from a bad head on in the family car near rural Shreveport Louisiana in 1947 when I was a tyke whose favorite berth was the stowage space behind t......

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Categories: shreveport, how i feel,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Eating Chocolate In the Dark Taste Better Than Tree Bark-
...I want chocolate in the dark, but when the sun goes down in, the moon lights up Shreveport. Now I chew on tree bark; The Taste is blah!! It hurts my teeth. Now I suck on Maple Leaves; 5......

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Categories: shreveport, analogy, food, funny,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Social Insecurity
...Premiered at The Panic Room, Shreveport, LA – 11/25/2006 ACT 1 Bed of Nails Typically Brueghel Got To Be Blue, Boy State of the Onion My Cynical Career Damage Control ACT 2 ......

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Categories: shreveport, allegory, social,
Form: List



Premium Member Last Night On Earth - Strange Is Truthier Than Fiction
...11/4/1991, KENOSHA, WI – Police say a man wearing a fake goatee burst into a restaurant and assaulted a customer. The victim asked, “Why are you wearing a fake goatee?” Police say the attacker answer......

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Categories: shreveport, extended metaphor, humor, satire,
Form: Light Verse
Siren Cryin'
... She was Shreveport sitting on the front porch that warm February Louisiana evening When the cold, shrill code blue siren news slowly, solemnly serenade waltzed up the white marbl......

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Categories: shreveport, bereavement, death, pain, sorrow,
Form: Elegy
Premium Member Guilty
...He broke into music When he was just a kid They sentenced him to trouble For dancing like he did How was he supposed to know He'd sing Jailhouse Rock When the boy hit the 50's He stopped the......

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Categories: shreveport, dance, farewell, film, i
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Floyd Cramer
... Shreveport, Louisiana was the birthplace of this man. He could play the piano better than most people can. Growing up in the small town of Huttig, Arkansas, Floyd was a big budding talent th......

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Categories: shreveport, dedication, music, people, people,
Form: Rhyme
Louisiana Support Me Today
...Monroe*,Shreveport, Alexandria*, Lake Charles, Lafayette, Baton Rouge*, New Orleans*, support the woman who has either visited or lived there before. She's coming straight from the top of the bo......

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Categories: shreveport, education, family, holiday, life,
Form: Light Verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things