NEW ORLEANS HAIKU
by Kalamu ya Salaam
French Quarter Intimacies
through weathered wood dark
on shadowed streets ancient voices
whisper history
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New Orleans Rainbow
from buttered gold to
purpled black, the sundry shades
of my people shine
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Our Natures Rise
hard core nights are so
erotic, a whiff of the
breeze is narcotic
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Sunrise On The River
shy dawn tenderly
gold tongue kisses the rippling
river's flowing face
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Quarter Moon Rise
soft moon shimmers out
of cloudy dress, stirred by night's
suggestive caress
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All Nite Long
amid dancing &
drinking til dewed dawn, nights stretch
24 hours long
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The Spice Of Life
cayenne in our blood
we dance, eat, laugh, cry & love
with peppered passion
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St. Louis Cemetery Crypt
bones float in raised stone,
white, altared graves, blood transformed,
become black souled thrones
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Makes You Go Oohhh!
sing of lusty foods
so savory they buck jump
cross your tongue's dance floor