Best Daytimes Poems

Thinking back on you and I
It doesn’t seem that long
It’s hard for me believing how
The years have come and gone
Everything about you still
So fresh inside my mind
Precious memories locked away
But never left behind
I shared with you my daytimes
But my nights I spent alone
It tore my...

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The Hidden Truth

When darkness comes and steals the night.
It bumps and hides from daytimes light.
Bastioned from the light of day.
The night time harvest is under way.

The shadows stalk its new found prey.
Survivors fight to find their grade.
Life events now take their toll.
Some pop a pill...

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Version by Elton Camp

(I make no claim to this centuries-old tale.  It’s usually presented in the form of a short story, so I decided to cast it as a humor/pathos poem brought more up to date.)

Grandpa always made his own way
With reluctance, he moved...

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...It wasn’t easy living out on her own,
she was young and she made her mistakes,
went to night school to learn to cut hair,
and in the daytimes tables she did wait.

At twenty years old she was a stylist,
building up a good list of regulars,
was making more...

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Welcome back, white rose of summer,
Haven’t seen you since last fall.
You braved storm days of winter and
Their cold and frosty winds

Mother Nature kept you safely
Through those long cold winter nights,
Through her snow storms, shortened daytimes
Until spring came again.

It’s good to see you and your kind
Blooming...

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Lock the door, close the WiFi,
Telephone and the Internet          
In the dark night, I lay in bed           
        ...

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There was so much rain in your voice. 
Daytimes that slept with shadows. 
Perfect perfidies piling 
your W.C. Handy eight-bar bravado 

I never knew your midnight, 
your pluck of broken glass. 
You told stories that left ash trays. 
Burning, 
burned, 
ashes of bruised door frames...

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I remember a time when each day was long,
When the world was a playground and my life a song.
And I flutter through the years with barley a care,
Ignoring the future and what waited there.

School was intriguing and filled with delights,
I played away daytimes and dreamed...

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SO WHERE DID VAN GOGH GO? 

Van Gogh gave his ear, I gave my heart
Van Gogh had his art, I was torn apart
Van Gogh had a starry starry night
I have daytimes that never seem so bright

Van Gogh had vibrant violet and rosy red
I just had...

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Embroidery whose titan never gets credit
An empire whose founder is long forgotten
And exists only as an adage, whose tale relives
Long forgotten history
History that ministered hope to those dimming out
Shone paths to those whose itinerary was threatened by
Dark dusks and cloudy daytimes
A magnate whose reputation was...

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I'm feeling so disturbed
You were exemplary like 2 and 2
Like my collection of stamps
Like the content of my bookshelf

Forgive me on thursdays
But my wantings were out of tune
And I was caught dreaming
Tickling the surface underneath

I'm still grateful for your time
But they dissolved me in your...

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We’ve known each other forty years,
Or close, to be exact
And somehow, our core group of six
Has mostly stayed intact.

Since the start, our monthly dinners
Kept us in each other’s loops
And then we switched to daytimes
For the rallying of troops.

We talked of kids and grandkids,
Trip and politics...

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With starting lines in measured meters 
Down back alleys we would run.
Asphalt drawn with borrowed paint 
Against each other’s clocks.

However matter what the speed, 
Our youth could not outrun 
The dimming of the light.
We ran with ragged t-shirts flying white, 
Battle-flags of poverty and youth....

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When a woman seems  a preferable quality 
Some  folks will still have questions about her qualifications as long as she qualified to play 
Her house role quietly and other things quickly. 
As she succeeded to apprehend him in her 
  heart and...

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