Nostalgia Dramatic Verse Poems

While sighs arose from dried marsh and clay, 
the girl in me embraced an amiable virtue
 born out of an affinity for our town’s revelries...

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Oh, how sweet it is to ponder
love notes, surpassing heartfelt ecstasy
expressed with divine endearment---

…You’re the beauteous Eve
who completes my ribs
as it finds belongingness in yours
toward...

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I'm curious Seeing you again fills me with nostalgia
And i need your presence Like light to darkness
And although time has passed I still think about...

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(A recent virtual chat with thine youngest daughter
awakened poignant memories adjusting to 
fatherhood for first time).
     
December 22nd 1996 Bundle of...

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What a pleasant time of the year!
For showers of blessings have come
A glorious time for others,
But painful for some..

The children are out already,
Leaping in puddles...

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Way up I rise
gripped in a choke hold
Way up I rise
buried, dead and forgotten
from the grave way up I rise
people are afraid because 
they see...

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exclamation, which does nothing to stem dead locked high tide   
     proliferation of high-powered assault bazookas 
  ...

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Images and haze spilling from nowhere,
Like a faint whisper mumbled then aligned
In hours distant as life’s crushed timepiece… * 
She gazes at the mirror; how...

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Luneta, I used to almost venerate you once
but glassy skyscrapers have put you away…
still, I kept the fragrant lawns deep in my bones,
with Muppet tricks...

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*Edited for Length and Content*

Remember that I loved you
while we went riding 
through the ‘burbs, 
looking at houses we couldn’t afford, 
caught up in your...

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The Sunset
Jatin Gauttam
August 8th, 2015


The edge of my unusual past, the place where I stood numb...
The cliff of frightening darkness that I needed to jump..
The...

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Vino
Vinny
Vino
Vinny
There was no doubt I was seeing double
Vinny poured another glass
I actually think it was whiskey
There we sat, at the back of the Angelos Steak...

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i wanted to beg you to hold me. 

i laid on my back, trying to catch my breath, 
but you wouldn't have noticed. 
you wouldn't...

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The Lighthouse
                       ...

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The Grand Old Dame sat at the table
with cream on the corner of her mouth
from a donut she ate as she sat in her chair
and...

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