Best Skated Poems

My shoes have traveled miles of roads
Their soles are worn quite thin
Struggling with this heavy load
I carry deep within
Beyond repair, no longer shine
Scuffed with many...

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just within reach?

things!
lots of things!

stuff one could collect,
especially graphic novels
with a writer that made you wish
you had a photographic memory
so you would never forget even...

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Trying to recapture the joy of those winter days is difficult. School cancelled: sun shining through the sheer, white, curtains into an all too girlie...

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I have babysat a roomful of six year olds, 
my heart beating louder than a pack of screaming hyenas.

I walked out with them quiet and...

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We raced on our sleds down hills of snow
and skated on ice as winds would blow.
How lovely it was; how crisp and clear!
A season so...

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A long, long time ago, when I was young,
on watching skaters move on Poets’ Pond,
(some gliding with great skill, some taking falls).
I donned skates of...

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All before was green
The pool like glass, serene
Waterboatmen skated by
A Kingfisher flashed the eye

The Dragonfly mates on wing
As distant Warblers sing
The rushes bend and sway
As...

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“And I remember Muscatine -still more pleasantly  - for its summer sunset. I have never seen any on either side of the ocean that...

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Watched the tourist families
As they strolled and shopped and sipped.
Without their masks, you might have thought
That Covid had been whipped.

They skated on the ice and...

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Whose normal – your normal or my normal I ask her.
She is shocked.
Believing we all have the same normal.

My children roller skated in the house,...

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She twirled and danced, for one last kiss 
Something she knew she could not miss
Snowflakes fell where her skate blades glided
Certainly nothing would be one-sided
She...

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                     12/10/2023






We were so excited...

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If I Were A Stone

If I were a stone…without a doubt I would be a lovely marbled granite…
the center of attention in a newly updated...

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On a historic, emotional night of March 28th, 2015
It was the most important hockey night to be remembered

While the current players played 82 games for...

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“Don’t it always seem to go that you don’t know what you got till it’s gone...” from 
the song Big Yellow Taxi by Joni Mitchell



Age...

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