Long Rockwell Poems

Have you seen a Rockwell 1950's Lemonade Wars?
Two girls, both white of course,
dressed for YoungRepublican success
scowling at each other on a pristine deserted street
of the tree-lined rich suburban variety,
arms folded across their angry 
relentless middle-class...

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Many, many years ago, when I was but a child…my friends and I would play the coolest games. 
Now…when I think back about those sweet and happy times…it always makes me smile to hear their...

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Just because an impetus arose...

to repost poem
(I chanced to locate
amidst plethora of poems on hard drive
of Macbook Pro)
written more'n a half decade ago
before yours truly 
blissfully oblivious to crypto- 
currency shenanigans linked into

fiendish scammers after...

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I have go not advanced degree
from a fancy eastern school.
I’ve no idea who Beckett is,
so you declare that I’m a fool.
Yet yesterday I restored to life
an old engine from the thirties,
I’ve got a PhD in...

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While Shuttered Up Inside... ©ozy
Snug Air Conditioned Demesne...

Analogous to my boyhood
     cosseted and bereft, I assay
to poetically elucidate how majority
     of mine years found me
  ...

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A funny thing happened on the way to the john.   
I felt something magical coming on.			
I’m afraid there’s no denyin’				
I accidentally let one loose.				
Don‘t blame the quiche, Lorraine!			

I have a special secret to...

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Back in the 1950s, my father took our fam’ly t
o view the many fine displays in a brand new art museum.
He claimed our neighbor’d raved about their paintings by - Picaso...
and promised, if we got...

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I worked in an Insurance office and loved my job
But the manager was an idle fat slob
He’d put in expenses sheets for work he hadn’t done
And was out of the door in front of everyone

But...

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I thought I would try entering Three Contest
With one poem-- 

MY POETRY SOUP RECIPE
                     ...

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Rockwell) framed palette,
     (sans dystopian
     picture) outright
and despite whatever hardship,
     with curtain call on this
     November 11th, 2018 night,
a...

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Before beginning my search,
I realize there are many models,
its not easy for anyone,
      even a savvy girl.
      Does he make me twirl,
   will...

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There's a chill in the mornin' air as autumn in Vermont unfolds.
Splendor is revealed as trees assume their cloaks of reds and golds!
Fodder shocks gleam in the risin' sun and 'punkins' sport a tinge of...

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The builders brought the vision 
With a brilliance in design. 
Their courage of decision 
Crossed the angry blow of brine. 

In search of new salvation 
Filled with passion for thou Art, 
They captured sweet elation...

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Using the snow spade to once again clear out the driveway,
I couldn't help but notice the lights that shimmered all day,
twinkling at me from the sunlight playing off of the snow,
giving the silver sparkling look...

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MY HEART IS FULL

          My heart is full of joy also, tears
         Carrying carefully years after years.
 ...

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EMBARRASSED

         I met him in my cousin-sister’s place.
         He was playing with her kids in vigor.
   ...

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This is a story, I'm not fond to recall
One decade ago, when my daughter was small
She was too young for Girl Scouts,..so instead, joined a troop
Of young "Brownie" fledglings...there were ten in her group

They needed...

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In these four walls I look, I see
I visualize dreaming in my head
I talk - I  hold conversation - I wonder
Somehow I keep my sanity instead
Knowing you listen through these four walls
I hear voices...

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Ma decreed they needed some culture to enhance their sedentary existence.
Pa wasn't all that enthusiastic and offered some very stiff resistance!
Especially when Ma steered him to the city modern art museum.
He would just as soon...

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Before there were rainbows, I roamed ambidextrously,
I streeled out into predawn air, senseless between Moon and Mars,
Reeling under Calvinistic cinder blocks, I hid from my shadows.

Before there were rainbows, I thought my heart was wooden,
In...

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A Drop In The Ocean

Life had given me no parachute for what was and if it had then
silken sulk would have terminally fallen with ignition on impact
Grounded and rock bottom ‘zero zilch kaput’ for only...

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I slipped on a teardrop and landed
deep in the well of a dream
I cannot remember what brought me here
but I know that I've been here before

Beyond the iron gate, alone
I read your name, through tall...

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1930

It started snowing during the night of Thanksgiving and until the next day.
The afternoon sky was a sullen bluish-gray.
The delicate white crystals touched down on top of the smooth skin of my nose.
It kissed my...

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He was born in the bathroom
One tiny white ball of cotton
Baby breath like a perfume
Little black nose like a button

Swiftly, he was a growing puppy
Blundering limbs making haste
Almost the way of a young yuppie
Leaving his...

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MY MOST EMBARRASSING MOMENT - Poetry Contest
Sponsor: Cindi Rockwell


I was barely seventeen working at my first job,
I was young so I was still in the “nice” stage,
I had this manager who bugged me named Rob,
He...

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