Nostalgia Men Poems

Steal James Dean's car
Paint it
Marlboro Red
Marina Blue
Cocaine White
Slip down and cruise the coast
Skip town on the drop of a dime
1955 Porsche 550 Spyder in the...

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A doff of the cap
  a tip of the hat
Nowadays 
  we rarely see that

It’s not that 
  men walk about
unhatted, uncapped

Rather,...

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Those days.....
When men didn't attempt to cage the lion,
Domesticate the cobra or try to play god

Those days when men didn't dog breed, cat breed,
Moon walk...

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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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If somebody has loved
less than I have, then to him
nostalgia is regret
something that was never given up,
only left down his memory lane
with an unbearable pain
and...

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Many moons ago, in my ascendancy
  Males weaned themselves from dependency
At age 18, adults, full-blown on our own
  No more nesting, Momma Bee,...

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At the harbor, old men watch boats
sail to sea as nostalgia floats
through sunlight.

A Navy man recites a song
and baits his chums to sing along
from sundeck.

Then,...

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Ding…let the battle begin
Dodging these punches in the middle of the ring
Rocking side to side like I’m stoned from a bottle of gin
I’ve lasted enough...

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I sometimes wonder where did it all go,
the clarity and fire of ten long years ago.
When all was a passion, when all seemed unfurled,
and nothing...

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Errol Flynn a swashbuckler
he was also a wrangler

Jack Webb loved LA
gave us Joe Friday

Kevin Bacon brought us footloose
many years after Mother Goose

Humphrey Bogart had many...

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I feel empty, 
Or feel too much 
Like Marilyn Monroe 

Like me,
What goes on through our heads
Only we would know..

We just wanted love,
Without any conditions..

We've...

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Old men in blue jeans

Dungarees – that’s what they were called,
heavy, blue denim, metal button fly -
form that followed function.  The “cuffs” were
rolled up...

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Thinking of goodbyes with trepidation
Nostalgia will come into play
Remembering all the good times we had
Right off from our very first day

Gonna try real hard not...

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Men of the Nile


Since our water is now blood
Should we thirst for ourselves?
We need the feel of flood
To sweep our troubles past

Find us a way...

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Holding on to my Nan’s hand, we walked around the lake
The snow was deep all around and there were kids tying on skates
My Nan squeezed...

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