The Book

Poetic Nola

My Thoughts – My Way. Thirty poems in three movements — on Amazon June 2, 2026.

Poetic Nola cover — a cast-iron gumbo pot on French Quarter cobblestone, steam rising into a flame of New Orleans flavors
Cover art · NolaGumbo Entertainment
Back of the book

For the one who never quite fit in.

My Thoughts – My Way

For every shameful moment, every guilty mistake, that God somehow turned into His glory. For anybody who has carried the weight and kept the rhythm anyway.

Poetic Nola is thirty poems about love, heartbreak, trauma, and the redemption running underneath all of it — written from a place of unspeakable grace, in a voice schooled by second lines and Sunday prayers.

Three parts. Thalia, the comedy. Lagniappe, the little extra. Melpomene, the tragedy. The full pot, stirred slow, served honest. This is survival with a beat. Faith in the struggle. Tragedy turned to triumph.

Open it where you need it most.

$24.99Hardback
$9eBook · Kindle
30Poems · 3 movements
Hardback & Kindle eBook via Amazon (KDP). Published by NolaGumbo Entertainment.
Inside the pot

Thirty poems, three movements.

Named for the muses of comedy and tragedy, with a little lagniappe in between. It opens with "Nawlins, My Home Forever" and closes with "Unbreakable."

Thalia
Comedy · 13
  1. Nawlins, My Home Forever opens the book
  2. Back in the Days
  3. 3019 Canal St
  4. J.O.B.
  5. Roommates
  6. What's in a Name
  7. When We Met
  8. Ain't That Da Truth
  9. When I See Your Face
  10. Promise
  11. Nola Daydreaming
  12. Sunday Madness
  13. Any Given Sunday
Lagniappe
A Little Extra · 6
  1. Anniversary
  2. Becoming One
  3. A Ring That Begins
  4. Fall Breeze
  5. My Dear Friend
  6. Ya Heard Me: A New Orleans Testament
Melpomene
Tragedy · 11
  1. Addiction
  2. Fear
  3. For the Love of Money
  4. Another Chance
  5. Message
  6. Late Last Night
  7. Tragedy
  8. Renege
  9. Truth Be Told
  10. You Saved Me
  11. Unbreakable closes the book