New Orleans' Ambience

Beignets and coffee...streetcars and boats,
Mardi Gras madness...calliope notes,
Bohemian artists...street mimes and jugglers,
Stories of river ghosts, pirates and smugglers,
Soulful music from a street corner horn,
The fact that this is where jazz was first born,
Fresh produce and trinkets from French Market vendors,
Shotguns, camelbacks, St. Charles Avenue splendors,
Wrought iron and gingerbread, houses so quaint,
Sports in the Superdome...pulling for the Saints,
Audubon Zoo...a white tiger and ‘gators,
“Where y’at” – Ninth Warders, secondline paraders,
Creole dishes...food “extraordinare,”
Charming people you can’t match anywhere,
Even the weather – quite balmy and hot –
Make New Orleans “The City That Care Forgot!”

© Nita Risher McGlawn 1989

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