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St. Louis Poems - Poems about St. Louis

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Premium Member Meat Me In St Louis
There's nothing better than a steak, Providing it's spiced with care. Whether ribeye, filet, or strip, Just make mine medium rare. Then you have your feathered friends, Either turkey, duck or chicken. You can bake or crispy fry, The Colonel says it's...Read the rest...
Categories: st. louis, food,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Gateway Town
Gateway town, Mississippi and Missouri river flooding confluence, with its celebration of manifest destiny, its looming, iconic archway. Stainless westward marker, its culture flowed southward for influence within the lawn-jockey, pink flamingo neighborhoods of moral decay. T.S, Eliot,...Read the rest...
Categories: st. louis, allusion, city, class, longing,
Form: Rhyme



The Mourning Path - St Louis Cemetery No 2
A tattered Calico traverses the crumbling corridor dissecting a row of dilapidated sacred structures, each uniquely indistinguishable from the next. The wind carries an eerie refrain as it whistles through the splintered stones, white-washed to harbor their degeneration. There's a fragrant...Read the rest...
Categories: st. louis, bereavement, death, solitude, spiritual,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Murder On Rue St Louis
It was a hot humid muggy evening The festivities were just starting Inebriated souls, and the smell of Cajun cooking The moon was sitting idly by, waiting for her role The smokey flavor of the night’s meal Sifting scents pleasing, The...Read the rest...
Categories: st. louis, life, pain, poets, symbolism,
Form: Light Verse
St Louis Cathedral
New Orleans by night the city that care forgot do come visit us...Read the rest...
Categories: st. louis, home,
Form: Senryu



East St. Louis, Il: City of Champs
East St. Louis, IL City of Champs A city with untapped potential and mountains of hope, A people with great dreams, reaching forward Looking for ways to manage and cope. From the outside looking in, it doesn’t appear to be...Read the rest...
Categories: st. louis, black-african amer
Form: I do not know?
City By the Rivers (St.Louis)
Where did the innocence go so fast it's all rearranged so sad people getting angry so quickly maybe someday it'll change but as for now I make my home in the most dangerous city in the United States...Read the rest...
Categories: st. louis, life, urban,
Form: I do not know?

Book: Shattered Sighs