Halloween High School Poems

We were small, innocence written all over..
Pulling plaits, dreaming of a new rover.
Crossed paths..when I picked my nose,
While you processed your identity of rose.
She lodged...

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~ Dear Old Golden Rule Days? ~ 

  The 2023 school year mercifully limps to a close
    Seems eons ago when...

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Juvenilia: Early Poems IX

These are early poems of mine, written in my teens as a high school student and during my first two years of...

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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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Long ago in a far away land there lived a
young witch who wasn't very attractive.
Each year on Halloween night she was left
all alone,  because...

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Ethel Hurst

1889 – 1918

I saw the town rise up
Like a single blade of grass after a spring rain.
I played a multitude of hop-scotch games
With my...

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Sipping cherry limeade, driving in the car parade, 
we're cruising in the Lone Star state.
Didn't want a bucket seat; the thing it couldn't beat, 
was...

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We were much too old to trick-or-treat,
But still wanted to have some fun;
So as the neighborhood high school kids
We just terrorized everyone.

We walked around and...

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In high school I was bullied by one kid... 
For three years he picked on me, 
made fun of me, 
and tried me on every...

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Ride with me on my time machine to a different time and place
Return with me and let me see if I can put a smile...

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