Best Zach Poems

A man and a woman are living
in a jungle. The man has lived there
all his life but the woman is new
so she's scared. The jungle...

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In my mind's eye I still see him
running down the beach,
Little arms flailing as if
flying was in reach,
white-blond hair a mass of curls,
ringlets of spun...

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I have read that book
cover to cover
many a time
It's held me when I was down 
gave me smiles all night long
It has given me a...

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Once upon a weedy lawn
At Cedar Oaks Retirement Home
There sat my mother, weak and old
On an afghan knit to block the cold.

It was summer, but...

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Verse 1:

Seems like yesterday we was hanging out
Running round; playing tag in the house
Till you hurt me and I would shout
Zach I gotta let this...

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My mom kept all her grandkids one summer
To visit a week or two

Wouldn't ya know it, it started to rain
Stuck inside with nothing to do

The...

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At dinner, Zach asks
about our nation's history, wars.
I say We're taking on everyone, one at a time.

First Britain, then Britain again: "He was the surly...

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There cannot be two identical things in the world. Two
hydrogen atoms
offer infinite locations within their shells for electrons.
Thus, nothing can be definitely eventually known.
All to...

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The winter winds piled snowdrifts against the old vets cardboard shack.
Another homeless vet, he shared his humble abode with his doggie Zach.
He pulled his tattered...

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Fred Astaire was king of tap
Biggie Smalls was huge in rap
Carson (Johnny)ruled TV
Dylan’s songs are poetry
Elvis made the girls all swoon
Frank Sinatra loved to croon
Greta...

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I will not do drugs here nor there
I will not do drugs anywhere
I will not smoke
I'll say no to coke
I will not snort
I prefer to...

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They tell me that i'll never account to anything. They tell me that i'll never be anything in life. They tell that i will never...

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My family was celebrating my birthday number sixty-five.
Grandson Zachary, who as I recall, was about the age of five,

Asked me after I'd finished blowing out...

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We should have gone outside instead of watching one
of the sillier, senseless, meaningless movies it is possible
to rent or buy. Winter or not the fields...

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It's amazing how quick things can change.
First your running with the kings, and then you're knocked out of range.
It's strange. I used to worry and...

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