Old Days

Poet: Ken Jordan
Poem: Old Days
Edited by: Sparkle Jordan
written: July/2013

In the old days
when smiles 
on faces 
were common -

 folk
would look
you in the
eye
 with honor -

Kids were
taught 
to always
respect
they're
elders -

And every
mother
and
father
in the
 neighborhood, 
would
correct you
when you
did wrong -

Back then,
life seemed
so simple -

In these
old days,
people helped
one another -

If you ran
a little short,
and 
needed a nickel,
folk would
give you
a dime -

Kids could
run to
the corner
store,
and buy
two cream
filled cookies
for a
penny -

Inflation was,
the pushup
ice cream
for a nickel -

Old folks
would
set around,
and
talk about 
they remember
when 
a loaf of bread
was a dime -

It was
a simple life
in the
old days -

Watermelon
man,
Use to drive
down the
dirt road
yelling,
w a t e r m e lon's!!
three for a dollar!
w a t e r m e lon's!!
three for a dollar!

And mama
would 
send you 
across the
train tracks,
to the
fruit and 
vegetable 
stand,
to buy 
collard greens
costing
ten cent
a bunch -

Big mama
would be
in the kitchen,
snapping 
green beans
and
shucking corn -

Those old days
are gone now,
But the
memory's
will stand
through time -

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