Best Recalled Poems

His heart ached as he looked at her
Her eyes had no sparkle
She walked ignorant of the fact
That her footsteps rocked his world
That she exuded sexuality
She walked unaware of the magnetism
Of her form
The sheer beauty of her hair as it caught the sunlight
She had been robbed...

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The number of us children growing up was eight.
Each Thursday night was special, for our Dad got paid,
and we would eagerly and hungrily await
his bringing Henry’s fries and burgers home. Hurray!

We weren’t allowed to pick and choose; we had to take
two burgers each with “everything”...

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Tenderly she picked the pink flower
day dreaming of the first flower given
wandering over to the bedecked bower
she dreamily looked at the garden

Memories of happy times came flooding in
the places they had visited together
Roma where they bathed in Turkish basins
Athens, they were victims of a flasher

Paris...

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In my bed, memory took fancied flight,
When I met with dear friends the other night.
Some Loved ones and Folks I’d known so well,
Stopped by to visit.  Numbers more than I could tell!

Some of those seen, had long been away,
While others, were met only yesterday.
But...

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RED  SEA  RECALLED

Perim squints in sun without relief
Through its narrow windows
Towards the mirage
Of  Socotra’s pearled reef

Red and shallow sea floor
With coral islets shimmering
And rainbows of fish
Near its dusty rock shores  
 
Crossed by the Tropic*
Crossed by dhows
Crossed by  Moses
Crossroads geographic...

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lights of candles in fall
autumn keen lines season
recalled memories...

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you meet someone
  you haven't seen for decades
what do you talk about
  where do you start

right where you left off
  all those years ago
if it's an old high school chum
  you might recall teachers
or school plays or sports teams

if it's a...

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I
What does it mean if vain thoughts rise?
Long-buried people, events, may arise
Suddenly, even after forgiving an ex (wife)

II
Does it mean forgiveness is not?
I don't think so; perhaps quick fix was sought
Or new partner has connections to ones that fought (u)

III
Talking is the only way, the...

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Stratford-upon-Avon Shakespeare's town
Where shades of the past are present each day
in daub and wattle homes there can be found
Medieval moments that are at play.

Tragedies staged with death quite violent
In his writing of revenge and torment
Shakespeare lies buried his quill now silent
He wrote of passion and...

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LAUGHTER      RECALLED
 


She  gives  her  smiles and laughter

And   long  the gift  my spirit  feels,

As   wedding   bells’  silver  peals

Are   softly   felt  ...

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A game I used to play
    
      'Search and Destroy' ~

            when but an innocent schoolboy...

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Memories surface,a requiem of
sounds,heaving emotions realign,
words recalled speak volume from
deep within , and live again on a trail
of nows  then wash nostalgia’s face
with random spontaneity from
the unconscious mind.The house
full of yesterdays,books that filled
wet Wednesdays,cross-stitched hours
upon the wall.Eclectic collected 
moments,sentiments,priceless,unique
and irreplaceable,this smell of love
percolating into...

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I dreamed that by a grey-blue sea
Familiar columns beckoned me,
An onyx temple rearing stark
Against the surf so dark.

But in the temple drawn-out screams
Destroyed nostalgic dreams—
The screams were mine, some four
Millennia ago, in life before…
Black deja-vu, on Time’s far shore....

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Escaping into verse,
  the base of the tower rumbled,
  the ground beneath was shaken
  with new cracks inside its walls

Escaping into verse,
  all towering deception crumbled,
  as the self-anointed jumped and fell
  landing prostrate and so small

Escaping into verse,
...

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Couldn’t leave yet,
One of them that I’d met 
Moaning and screaming,
It feels like they’re dreaming.
Needed again,
Glad to give a refrain
But I’m now nearly eighty,
Active still though, matey.
Couldn’t say no,
Knocked up, asked not to go,
Help this doc has displayed,
Over this whole charade.
Me retired so I’ll roam
Exhausted,...

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