Nostalgia Cousin Poems

There are photos of our childhood
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Looking back, one thing comes clean-glass clear
you were always there for me subduing every fear.

I tried to do my duty, be a husband strong and...

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Remember when you were a child, jumping up and down with glee
to see your mean cousin who always pretended to like you for about ten...

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She was the cousin we feared
There were no consequences
She stayed with the grown ups
No one sent her away

All the other aunts and my own mother
Did...

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Now theres a lot of Joeys
in my family tree,
but the one I used to
hang out with was
around the very same
age as me,
I enjoyed his company
immensely...

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They sit inside a thin glass dome below the face of time.
Four orbs upon a pedestal; all move in perfect rhyme.
Some years ago their movement...

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When I was just a  little girl, we lived by railroad tracks;
we loved the steamy, smoky stacks, the wheels clickety clack.
On many days we...

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They see strengths
Not the limitations
These are people who will make you proud of yourself
They will tell you why you’re special
Trust you to the point you...

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Tonight we’ll sit around the table
While we’re reminiscing
Both about the Israelites
And those whom we are missing.

Every Seder takes me back
To those when I was young.
I...

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THE BOW LEGGED GIRL
I took all of your tank tops and your hose and your sox,
and I put them all together in a little brown...

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Business executive Darrin Stephens has a life
with a good paying job, a fine boss, and a great wife.
He’s employed by a large advertising agency.
Darrin and...

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I do remember myself in my childhood -
The time which outran soon,
Just as a lonely ray -
In a night without the moon.

I do remember going...

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1972, and believe me and you,
Looked like it was gonna'
Be a year to remember...
We seemed to sense that,
From the previous December..
It was time for our...

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