Gainesville Poems - Poems about Gainesville

...We were blessed to visit with our grandchildren and had a wonderful Thanksgiving Day We ate, we laughed, we played a game before they went on their way. Two of our grandchildren are at the Uni......Read the rest...

...His old clothes came to whisper his good name; he values them with fragile pride instead. No dreadful task, he always picks the same plain blue jeans and shirt striped in white and red. Shat......Read the rest...

...Gainesville is the status quotidian I’m still living in It’s a place I used to stay Where I now escape to, far from home, trying to recognize yesterday’s affections in today The world has change......Read the rest...

...You're going back to Gainesville, which I think is very brave. They tied our hands and made us dance their dance. We were prisoners of a smear war who voluntarily walked the plank. But now that the s......Read the rest...

...We gave Johnny a gun and a uniform Trained him to kill, in a regiment conform Sent him deep into Vietnam jungles warm With little regard to how we did him harm So certain we knew what we ......Read the rest...