Nostalgia Green Poems

It’s quite a thing to lay a life to rest,
to place rocks over roots rotten with age,
cover leaves once green with soil, sodden from rain.

Conceived...

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We stayed out late at night: back then;
In the warmer months of the season
We would go down to the lake for fun.

If it hadn't been...

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Magic silver key,
fits into my silver shoes.
I was now set free,
I now owned many sidewalks.
My new skates were a big thrill.

 

Date Written: 8/4/2022

2 Place

Childhood...

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Green Gremlins were all the rage in nineteen seventy-four.
I am not talking about creepy fat-headed full bellied tiny beings.
I am talking about cheap cars with...

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spring peaceful nostalgia

Beautiful spring day
Yet out of season
Loving nostalgia
Drawing me into embrace.
Warm buttery sunshine
Dollop of ecstasy
Cascading over my back
Raining down like home and joy and...

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Green Screen Door

There’s something about
Green screen doors
Conjuring past summers
The why
I’m not sure

Swing bang shut
Bent out screen
Surrounded
By wood
All painted in green

Brings back
Kook-Aid
The bees all abuzz
Mingled with...

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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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Once upon that old green hill
I waited alone in the rain
Then, I cursed that bleak grey hill;
Now, I would buy it back with pain
One yellow...

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Shu and Chu are both remote and desolate areas 
Where I have lived in exile for twenty-three years. 
Nostalgic, I couldn’t help chanting the Reminiscent...

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one two three
my all time favorite
fancy and bright
pretty to look at

delish on my tongue
sprinklings of sugar
squishy between my teeth
yummy on my lips

spearmint delights
refreshing jujubes
perfect molded...

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soft purr
of the push lawn mower
prelude to beer



AP: 2nd place 2020

Posted on August 8, 2018...

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red green purple
and black candy shoelaces
hanging down his chin



posted on June 29, 1018...

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let us

drink the chartreuse

yellow green fields with our

eyes till we escape our ramparts

with wings 




-maria corado
5/16/18...

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They took away my peacenik beads
                   ...

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Color green,
soft as she can be
wrapped in linen
but clothed with dignity.
With a beauty that was sudden
and a hand that was subtle.
Her heart can only be...

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