Best Monmouth Poems

Home to President Woodrow Wilson
Ivy scaled Monmouth’s outer walls
Laughter of youth from decades past
Resonated in marble-floored halls

The theater building was set apart
Further down Cedar Avenue
Another spirit stalked the stage
Where college actors made debuts

A gift from the Monmouth Race Park
Actors’ dressing rooms were stalls
Where a stealthy...

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It is time for them to run  

In the Jersey Shore tourist sun  

Continuing their three-year-old campaign  

Feeling the warmth of youthful fame  

Before being sent out to be studs  

And replaced by next year’s Kentucky rose buds  

Haskell...

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THE FRIEND OF HENRY of MONMOUTH

Soundbites for a damaged heart
Surreal but so poetic
Study myself as is my wont
My God, I am pathetic. 

Words still ringing in my ears
"I have to let one of you go" 
Well let me go, a fond farewell
I knew it would...

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