Best Ames Poems

No cantes para mí, vida mía.
No cantes más para mí.
Cuando tu ojo ya no llore,
porque ya no soy,
No cantes para mí, mi amor.

No pienses en mí, querida.
No pienses en mí nunca mas
Cuando sueñas con otro 
y mi vida ya no es,
no pienses en mi, mi...

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A voice inside said,
come, come back
to the place where
my college years
started.
Burnt out
I came back
from college
in Cedar Falls
for the summer
to a familiar place,
and I was reborn.
Six others and I stayed
in the fraternity
working summer jobs.
The quiet bars near campus
and familiar places
echoed memories
of the bustle
of fall and spring...

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There’s a young lady in Ames we are told
who claims a pedigree royal and old
It’s Dairy Queen for brunch
and Burger King for lunch
Then dinner where the arches are gold

Written 3/19/22...

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The country was turbulent on TV,
but not in Iowa

The ‘Times Were A Changing’ for most to see,
but not in Iowa

There was more to sound than snippets or bites,
back then in Iowa

Each voice was heard when spoken and free,
back then in Iowa

The kindling burned in most...

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