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Louisiana Words Writer Review: Bisqitta Tells the Truth about LGBTQIA Culture

Love Is Life's Blood (Jason Smith - Lafayette, LA)

You are my hearts desire, You have lit my fire. All that has happened between us, Has made me believe in trust. I do not know what to do, All I know is I still love you. Only with you have I found true love, For only you have become my morning dove. Please tell me that we still have a chance, That you with me will always be true romance. However, as in life there is no real answer to love, Just that you are its life’s blood.

Through the Tears (Steve Duhon - Carencro, LA)

When I find myself alone in the pain. When I feel like I have absolutely no one to turn to. When I wish the hurt would stop. When I don't know what to do. When I feel completely lost. When my eyes just won't stop welling up. When I don't want to bother anyone with my hurt, my pain. When I know that everyone has other responsibilities. I don't want to interrupt them with my hurt. When I have thought about all of the ways to make the hurt stop. When I am tired of putting on my strong face for others to see. When I am tired of the tears welling up, filling already soggy eyes. When I am tired of the tears, tears that roll non-stop over my cheeks. When I don't want to hurt the ones that I love the most. When it seems like those who are supposed to love me don't get who I am. When no one has any idea of the pain my smile hides. When I am worried about being forever labeled by others. When I am the one that everyone counts on for strength. When I never show any weakn

Rhythms & Visions: Bisquitta Stevens (Alexander Roussel - Lafayette, LA)

Rhythms & Visions: Black Roses (Ben LaCour - Baton Rouge, LA)

Louisiana Words Summer 2019: Day 3 - Creatively Expressing Religion in Louisiana

Louisiana Words Writer Review: Painter/Writer, Barry Sons/Allstar #3 (3 of 3)

Waiting on a Date - (Harvey LeBeouf - Kaplan, LA)

Wanting to go out on a perfect date Waiting to find that someone Learning you have to trust fate Searching for that someone Trying to rush everything in life Rushing into bed with someone In the end will only cause you strife Be patient waiting for that someone Remember all that will happen is already written Learn everything you can about someone Wait until your heart pulls and you are truly smitten Don’t rush into bed with someone Live like you believe in everything you have felt Get to know the heart of someone Love like you believe this is the best hand you ever been dealt Be in unison and harmony with someone The path you walk is the path you are supposed to be on Don’t doubt yourself or question the reason.

Louisiana Words Commercial (2.2) - L.O.V.E.

HEADLINER: She Struggles (Cj Avory - Lafayette, LA)

She Struggles She goes back and forth In and out of emotions Awake one minute Dreaming away the day In the next A paroxysm one moment Rocking steady in the next Its all crap one minute And then the world Is beautiful again She struggles but At least she's not afraid To say what she feels When she feels it It may be all crap today But tomorrow she will be okay

Rhythms & Visions: Langston Hughes (Alexander Roussel - Lafayette, LA)

Rhythms & Visions: Ride on King Jesus (Sasha Massey - Lafayette, LA)

Louisiana Words Presents Our 8th Allstar: Harvey LeBeouf

Louisiana Words (Summer 2019) is the Biggest Premiere Week EVER!

Here's everyone's free ticket to a hot summer of Louisiana writers & artists! Don't miss out! Use it!

Louisiana Words: Pledge to Louisiana (Summer 2019}

I pledge my allegiance to Louisiana. I will embrace what makes me and my state unique. Louisiana will be recognized as a leader and innovator of the New South. Many great leaders of the future will come from this state. And we will show both the media and politicians that we are just as smart as hem. We will no longer have our resources exhausted and our people used and left behind. We will work hard and play hard. We will protect each other. We will support each other. I pledge that I will do whatever I can to get these things in motion right now. We will no longer wait for a path to be cleared for us. We will clear the path ourselves. We I ain’t giving up easily. I will socialize in the real world just as well as I do on the social  media …in hopes to organize us  and the real world that we live e ffectively.

Louisiana Flag Raised for Summer Season 2019 (Louisiana Social Pledge Above)!

Salute: Louisiana Words Spring 2019 Finale Week

From this point forth, each time a Louisiana Words season premiere or finale week happens, the state flag will be raised on that Sunday. On a finale week, there is normal scheduling but there is NO regular Sunday Introduction. Instead, a finale “ticket” is posted and there is a SATURDAY SEASON CONCLUSION! Louisiana Words family stick with it and our talent and stories will all sync and make sense together! 

Tonight (Harvey Leboeuf - Kaplan, LA)

You look so beautiful at night But you always start a fight If you only knew how you made me feel You always make a real big deal You look so beautiful tonight Baby, can we just go on out And enjoy ourselves I just want to hold you tight, Baby, all damn night But you are just looking for a fight I think instead of hanging out I’ll just stay home and write I’ll just miss the fight

Oh Holy Lord (Annette Redmond Walters - Lafayette, LA)

Holy, Holy, oh glorious lord deliver me from my atrocious errs unbind my soul from all offenses Blessed, Blessed, oh hallowed lord  grant me answers to my prayers let me be your faithful witness Praise you, Praise you, oh sacred lord I come before u, humbled and desperate and beg to be near you in your lenity Gracious, Gracious, oh cherished lord give me wisdom to know my fate and accept my purpose with serenity

Where the Ancestors Gather (Barry Sons - Berwick, LA)

I weep, I scream for the ancestors.  Men and Machines dreg at the sacred sand bar built into an Island. A place to pray.  A place to call on the ancestors. When oil spills, who else can we turn to? Not the army corp of engineers!!! Oh Scared Island where the River turns. Why? Why?! Why! Blow up the Morganza Spillway instead.  Free the river, let it flow.

Walking, Dreaming (Rachel Perry - Lafayette, LA)

Yes I do believe I am setting out again. Must keep up the pace while I'm still able. The sleep gave me strength. I walk now in a glide, To that distant point  where the curving dirt path narrows. Once I reach that narrow point, No longer is it narrow. The edges wide,  engulf me like a dream. It's all a dream, I realize, The new point and the old. So many dreams I've had already; So many yet to come.

Original Words (Harvey LeBeouf - Kaplan, LA)

At a time in life when everyone is watching what you say Be original with your words Don’t watch what you say, instead speak your mind Be inspirational with every breath Speak from your heart, whisper from your soul Be an outlaw, have wild thoughts and dreams Make time to have conversations with your loved ones Be the person you dream about being At a time in life where originality is rare Speaking from your heart and soul will set apart Be the breath that God gave you

The Tree Holding Back the Sea (Barry Sons - Berwick, LA)

I am the tree holding back the sea. Could you find in your hearts to stand with me? The last defense I am, for the marsh around my feet. Stop the building. Stop rerouting waters flow. Stop the levees, let them go. What kills me? If the river is not silting, it’s eroding. Ignorance, greed, the quick buck, arrogance, levees, spillways, damns, too much salt water is killing me.  The physics plain and simple, more marsh less catastrophe. I am the tree holding back the sea; stand together and fight with me. I give you life, give back, I plea. I am the tree holding back the sea.

Rhythms & Visions: Father and Son (Berwick, LA)

Rhythms & Visions: Is it Now? (Catrina Crowe - Ruston, LA)

Don’t Forget to Support Sasha Massey (Louisiana Words Allstar #7)

Rhythms & Visions: Sweet Little Jesus Boy (Sasha Massey - Lafayette, LA)

All of Us (Sasha Massey - Lafayette, LA)

We have so few days to be good to people. No matter how hard they work against an established pattern or what little good they acknowledge in themselves. What remains is that while we live and learn we have to keep teaching. The choice to help the poor or shame them can be taught.  Aside from biases set up to defeat black and brown people we have what seem to be the same chances as anyone. It’s a bitter thing to live every day with the stress of fear and exclusion, but when we choose  good  it makes the world better. People folding up like lawn chairs for a lie they were sold are just as likely to turn away and accomplish true good in the world. Hate, poverty, and the violence and limitation of rights of women are not ‘us or them’ problems. They are Human problems. We can solve them. We can heal the world if we work together for good.  To protect children.  To grant every access to a full education of their home, our world which further enriches and improves the future they will grow

She Sees (Madison Elizabeth Holland - Lafayette, LA)

She sees people Walking in lines, shuffling past her constantly She's alone in her bed, in her head To any glancing eye But she sees people, not ones she recognizes Just people on their way, like herself She wants to follow but she's not quite ready yet She's tired, so tired, and most days now the fog doesn't clear away The cobwebs growing thicker They confuse her and she doesn't know what to do Surrounded by the people she loved She's all alone, facing the end But for the little girl  Who sat with her, laid in bed with her After days of not being able to see the little girl's face Last night, the girl turned around  She didn't recognize her, yet a part of her knew why she was there Until the end, unknown until right before she begins to cross over A silent sentinel,  Watching Waiting  Guarding Guiding Soon, she knows She'll get out of her bed On her broken legs She'll join the throngs of people And together they'll walk towards What comes n

Expectations (Harvey Lebeouf - Kaplan, LA)

Is this true? Can it really be? I can’t wait for us to finally meet. Everytime we talk I crack a smile. I’m hoping you and this feeling stay a while. In my dreams we met before. Your eyes lit up as I walked across the floor. High expectations this might be. But I sure as hell can’t wait to see.

Louisiana Words Presents Our 7th Allstar Sasha Massey

Being the 1st singer to bring her talents to Louisiana Words, Sasha has never had a place she felt she could not only sing, but also express her passion for expressing the triumphs and failures of pursuing her dream of singing. Making her appearance in Fall 2018, she is the fastest writer to go from the Newcomer to Allstar in the history of Louisiana Words. She is now also the lead singer of Rhythms and visions. She is currently in the process of becoming the first Director of Music for our Louisiana Words family. Let’s welcome Sasha to our family and give her the support she needs to showcase her singing/writing for Louisiana!

The 2nd Half of Allstar Reveals Scorch Up the Next Chapter of Louisiana Words!

In 2019, WE BECOME APART OF LOUISIANA’S HISTORY!

Because we are polishing our content to have the structure that it deserves to go in the direction of our new opportunities,  we will be re-starting LouisianaWords on Mother’s Day with a very, very, very special Louisiana Words introduction! Follow us family!

During Spring Break 2019, We Are’t Going to Leave You without Louisiana Words Flavor!

Just because we are polishing our community and creating new content, doesn’t mean we are going to stop celebrating over 100 writers and nearly 1200 pieces of fabulous creative art! Follows us this Spring Break 2019 and discover our unique artists! We love them for contributing and love you for your support!

Louisiana Words Presents Allstar #6: Skyra Francesca Rideaux

Louisiana Words: March 17th - 23rd (finale)

The Circle Turns (Madison Elizabeth Holland - Lafayette, LA)

candles in half circle leaves underfoot incense burns and wafts above night sky looks downward, casts light of star and shadow of moon shed clothes lay crumpled in dark grass skin gleams and glows in light of candle and smoke of incense blessing sage drifts and billows around tapers music entwines with heart and soul and dancing feet bare body leaps and twirls and pushes through the darkness alive floral scarves float and twist and dance around the limbs running ever sunwise, ever gathering, ever drumming energy washes over sense and time and spirit air fire water earth together, grounded, connected, enmeshed feet pound through nature's floor and hands rise towards goddess skies heart opens to raised flowing energies words spit of devotion and peace and healing lips adulate the oneness of all inner flower unfolds to receive blessings of goddess all this is for good all this is for peace all this is for well-being As Above, So Below Bl

Rhythms & Visions: The Courage to Be Unapologetically Black (Skyra Rideaux - Lafayette, LA)

Doing It Right (Harvey LeBeouf Jr. - Kaplan, LA)

I been living my life all wrong. Looking at my past I see it’s time to make some changes. All these years I been doing things wrong. Baby when I think of you and me I can’t wait to see changes. Changes that will bring us closer Closer in miles and closer to your heart, It’s time I start doing things right After all these years I been doing myself wrong. It’s time I start doing me right. After all the days I’ve been gone, I need to make time to do you right. One night at a time, one day at a time, One memory at a time, it’s time to do us right.

The Colored Coloratura (Sasha Massey - Lafayette, LA)

Isolated for my ability,  then  shoved away like a wind-up doll. Look up  the movie   Trick Baby.  The dinner scene.   That  shut up and sing   talk will not fly. “You should sing jazz.”  That's one thing I like but it doesn't fill up my heart. “You should sing opera.”  I do but where I live people only care about beer,  zydeco  &football. She shall not  fetch and step it. “You should be famous.”  Gee thanks, have you recommended my work to anyone? Shared/reposted my videos?  “You don’t look like a singer.”  You mean I don't look wealthy or I'm not a skinny blonde with a tan that's way too dark and implants where I'm already blessed with sizeable peach? Gee thanks . “Black people sing opera?”  Why yes. There are many  classical black voices  that get passed over for being too dark, not a big enough name...and they become  the many unheard that get carted out for the month of February. So who sing roles like Aida in stead? Out comes the bronzer, afro

Shut Away (Sasha Massey - Lafayette, LA)

Reading the books that simply line shelves Imprisoned in your home, your body Observing the world, learning the futility of certain fights Being told what to do with money I barely make by people who are so rich it’s confusing and surreal Stepping away from corrupt figures seeking only to use you, then stifle your voice and push someone who’s more palatable just because they’re white Getting strong, defiant and purified Becoming a dancer in a jar A singer in a box

Requests (Rachel Perry - Lafayette, LA)

Why is each step such a laden sluggish struggle? Please let the road to destiny be pleasant. Let vibrant thumps sound from the organ that lies within me. Let lights within the trees twinkle at nighttime. Let a moist thick air form film around my skin. Let despair nor obligation ever hold me. Let the king's throne crack in tiny shards and pieces. Let his crown dislodge and roll in a puddle. Let the wolf be vegetarian despite his wolfish culture. Let him partake of carrots with the rabbits. Let my head never grow too crowded and let sanity stay within sight. Let all the highways slowly float away. For I'm tired of all the motors metal contraptions with endless parts axles belts and wires and wheels and pullies, that keep carrying us further apart. They just carry us further apart. Let our journies meet once more. Let me find you at the crossroads, And there we will embrace as when we parted.

We Present Louisiana Words Allstar #5: Chase Fontenot

Photography by Drake Faulk

He Likes Me For Me (Louis Toliver Jr. - Swartz, LA)

What boy doesn’t think he wants to be some girl’s Romeo? Why do we reference such a tragedy as devotion? It’s the 2lst century I see more and more How many boys want to be Juliets Will another man ever come to love us so? I do know there is someone, for everyone But I can’t help wondering Will he like me for me? Will he love my scars? To tell me their beautiful That someone, that  someone Boy or girl, man or woman We’re all waiting for that  someone The appearance of love  Much more glamorous than the struggle The scars make love more beautiful Will he like me for me? Not just say he understands me Then walk way feeling confused Will he like me for me? I think he already does He just hasn’t seen me yet Only those special  someones  can see you There’s nothing more romantic Than when you open up your struggle He does the same You stick together like glue That’s love through all its glory