Nostalgia July Poems

Breezes on boardwalks
                 that carry its essence
Suntans are fragranced
...

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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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My Fourth of July memories are firmly intact.
We always got together with my aunt and uncle.
Which meant our cousins, and we had so much fun.
The...

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My naive heartbeats echo an old song,
Last summer was a blissful page of glee,
The July swing has waited for so long,
I smile, for a joyous...

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Written March 14th, 2020
Contest: Back When Poetry Contest
Sponsor: Line Gauthier


Resting our legs
some reading books
others enjoying the view

I held onto my guy
one of the readers
women were...

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Carnival 4th of July
Rides so fun, they make you cry.
Children screaming in high pitch.
Barker yelling, looks like a witch.

Vendor games you have to try.
Please come...

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As the sun sets
A hot wind like this
Does not belong in downtown Lansing
But here it is
Speed-boating down the Grand River grinning and wearing Ray-Bans

My wife...

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How fireworks are constructed - I haven't got a clue.
I'm just really excited about all the things that they can do.
Flying high up into the...

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hot, dry season over and done
nostalgia approaches in a dance of delight

dust and droplets of rain
start their tango creating an essence
known as petrichor.

inhale her deeply,...

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The Chinese people invented
the fireworks only for pleasure
not for war; such an invention
led to the amazing creation of the canon,
and Galileo de Galilei used it...

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Chairs lined with stripes, 
green and white,
became ski jump ramps
for feelings, innocent and pure,
taking off from the edge
hoping to defy the gravity of fears. 

Only...

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The hot, dry season is done!
Invite nostalgia’s approach -
enjoy her dance of delight.

Science calls her "pet-ri-chor".
quite lackluster, I would say
for fragrance ever so light.

Dust and...

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felt like i did before thats how i know i missed ya
if i could then i woulda grabbed ya hugged and kissed ya
bachelor for eternity...

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 A Christmas kiss for that Miss
Surely her lips he could not miss

Heartwarming and enticing
That beau was truly in-loving

A kiss since so long due
Filled with...

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The inhabitants of Quintar V
Were in many ways like Man
They evolved from legless blobs
And from the unkind sea
Ventured onto land.

Their technology advanced
In only a few...

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