Best Throwback Poems

My poems are conceived, not within the womb,
which long time now has been devoid of seed.
My poems are born from a need to be heard:
my...

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The child is a poet with innocent eyes
		And a bumpity A-B-C rhyme,
		A dancer whose feet with the rhythm of life
		Move in jubilant one-two-three time.

		The child...

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The curtain in my room is pale yellow, 
           With unique embroidered golden leaves on...

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I want someone who likes that
  I talk to Buddha
  I love waterlilies
  I eat with chopsticks in blue Chinese dishes

I want...

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[This poem first appeared in the anthology, "The Soul and the Singer," Young Publications, c. 1968.  It was reprinted in my first poetry chapbook...

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Nostalgic angst… 
keeps on gripping my soul 
while apprehended by the question:
"Why are we here?"

Yes, I confess that my soul repents 
for wasted opportunities and...

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Relishing a dream of voyage;
though the sky lit by the glory of rays,
my eyes squinted at the ray
fluttering my lashes says,
not now,don't wake me now.

Impeccable...

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my laugh raises hair on people’s necks
it is not petite, polite, refined, or subtle.
it is a throwback to your hillbilly ancestral
caveman’s outrageously loud and ugly...

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not only a few times
had I sketched
the pattern of your smile
in every swaying leaf
in every waning moonlight
in every wandering clouds
blowing softly to the west

but I...

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We flip through one hundred and eighteen glossy pages of magazine people.
None we know.
Wait!  Was that Dean Martin?
A throwback to the 60’s.
False alarm. ...

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Near my house in the back,
bit lost on a sidetrack,
along the grassy track.

Turned a bit to backtrack,
closer is the right tack,
near my house in the...

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Destination,
         Tampa
               ...

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A silvery blue, pale blond long hair
Yorkie with a short waggy tail, floppy abnormal ears
Brown eyes that will melt your heart
With his own flair
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He was...

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There was a young man of sixteen that was full of life. Never afraid of anything or anyone. He Loved spending time with his family...

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