Long Aged(a) Poems

SHE was my wife, once ...

long ago, so very long ago ...
we met on the showboat, up-river,
almost fifty years back now ...
I was a young officer for the Confederacy,
working for the Yanks after The Turn,

supplying...

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...It was no life she’d imagined,
but she had no other real choice,
and she did grow to care for him,
gave him ten little girls and boys.

Decades went by and she grew old,
little grandchildren came along,
and one...

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Gods of glowing neon and gaudy screens
smile upon charming, charming patterns of heads.
All colors of hair, lit red, then green, then blue,
guided along invisible paths, crown heads
perspiring, chanting and glancing down
on marching, mechanical arms, then...

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THE EVER DWINDLING FEW - USA Version
			
				       Beach Omaha	

At Omaha an old man stands and limps down  to the shore,
Where on this sand he crawled and  ran...

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THE EVER DWINDLING FEW
				      At Juno Beach

At Juno Beach an old man stands and limps down  to the shore,
Where on this sand he crawled and  ran so many...

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I aged a small number of hours,
     none the worse
since posting about Daylight Savings Time,
     a radiant playful verse
teasingly succeeded against being terse,

a cogent tangential thread,
 ...

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A football star with super speed,
Our prom king, Kyle, has gone to seed.
No longer likely to succeed,
He's out of work and hooked on weed.

Behind you's Jennifer, the one
Who led our cheers and planned our fun.
Most...

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(iv)
We were half-way to Iowa and lethargy was not far
behind us. He had a late start but we all know lethargy
is a health freak and would never drink 64 oz frozen
soda-pops which means he doesn’t...

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warts & all

he swore when he met her
that he’d love her forever, 
warts & all---
sure, it was storybook
nonsense & even at the time
he promised it, she knew
it, but she wanted to believe it
& so she...

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We had just received our second COVID vaccination…the one that if we get the Coronavirus will help us to survive…and then we waited the next few days for the side effects to arrive.

We read about...

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I - Night falls

At death of day long shadows form,
drawn blinds at dusk exclude the world,
tight-shut 'til long past dawn.

Night time is the worst time to want
of sleep, but sleep is host of dreams
and dreams...

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Water is uniquely ancient, yet it hasn’t aged a day.
It’s older than Dr. Leakey’s bones. 
Older than Olduvai Gorge.
Water is older than life itself,
Unaltered by evolution’s chaotic ebb and flow.
Undiminished, though redistributed,
Surviving every mass extinction,
While...

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Flashing memory of pretty little faces, 
Touching eloquence of paint- brushes 
Sounds of the gentle wind on the tree leaves 
And I whispered, "Poet, will you tell me about a poem you loved once?" 

Mingling...

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Mother's hair is whiter than it was a month ago,
her smile is gone; she has aged a hundred years
in thirty days, I do not recognize her.
vibrancy and enthusiasm have dissipated
She cannot sit up, swallow or...

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The world was cold,
And there he sat,
On the sidewalk curve.
His head held in his hands.
Trying to swallow his pride.
Desperately seeking,
To build up the nerve.

To approach a passerby,
And ask for a bite to eat.
You could tell...

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By Laura Dee Battle
November 24, 2014

Aged a lifetime in the span of a year
Between right and wrong; the pain in my tears
I fear this is all I will ever get to know
The gloom in the...

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You made a grand appearance 19 years ago,
 A grandson of whom I immediately cherished so.
 Your Daddy was so proud placing you on a table top to view,
 I didn't realise then but now...

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Do you remember when you told me that story
of all the Planets in the sky and how they all
had different jobs and had different people they
were in charge of? That Uranus was a magician
and he...

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In a little town
with a little street
and single traffic 
was a tiny diner
with just a few people
among them Robert
and his wife Francine
who for twenty years
order the same things,
pancakes with butter
for mister Robert
omelette with truffle
for Mrs...

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I am who I am and nothing more

I live in the country and my accent

Is quite rough..

I sent a teardrop to heaven for a bit

Of sunshine..

I love to smile in fact I love laughter

Even better..

I...

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His hair starting to recede,
his lips a thin line,
his hands always carrying a gun,
he's got Clint Eastwood eye's,

He'll turn the tables on you,
you had better think twice,
either giving you a punch,
or rolling you like your...

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I have lived a thousand years,
And I've never aged a day,
I have shed so many tears,
Watching loved ones pass away.

I have seen cities grow and change,
From London, England to Paris, France,
All my life I've had...

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National Nude Day – 14 July

I believe that it started in France
When some folks left their house without pants
Without batting an eye
They simply walked by
And not a soul bothered to glance

Encouraged by nary a stare
They...

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I'm a (She)
By Laura
November 8, 2015

I used to believe in endless possibilities
You see, I was carelessly redeeming favors I didn't earn
So when I started to burn without an urn to catch my falling ashes
I threw...

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"If forever is true, make it true, don't give it a second thought," ... by The Poet

"Okay kids, this is December's first day
so let's go in and see what it could be,"
[Oh my goodness ...,...

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