Family Nostalgia Poems

For decades, motor cars
have driven past in haste,
eyes not straying far
from the highway to where,
set back and obscured
by scrub,
an abandoned farm
is slowly succumbing to rot.
I...

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Trailing clouds of glory do we come
The magical moments of childhood
When we felt at one with the universe
Spinning dizzily with delight

Or with more of horrible...

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Jetson’s TV show was out of sight
We could barely wait to see it on Saturday night
No wait, it was in the morning, well anyway
This high-tech...

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Nostalgia, my sometimes-friend, an unwavering realist,
visits from time to time with a flood of memories
centering around the polar opposites that...

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from your first born, when you grab a dusting of talc, crushed with late night feeds, stirring in bouncing and stories on a knee,

adding a...

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Time passes, conversation and music ends,
light refracts, shimmers in water, bends.
Nails grow, hair lengthens, heads turn and bones break,
stems wilt, gardens overgrow, clouds regurgitate water...

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  Do you recall?
Felix the cat,
Or Taxi and Kojak.

Fantasy Island and 
Starsky and Hutch.
Monty Python and
The Brady bunch.

   Saturday cartoons and
Mission impossible.
...

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I was a classic 1957 Chevrolet Bel-Air, in mint condition, admiral and white.
My owner had other beautiful, classic cars, like stars sparkling into twilight.

My owner...

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The cliffs are being  eaten away 
By the constant pulsing tide.
Now just a short walk from the lane
When it  was once a short...

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- in those moments, it shines.
The nostalgia of an upside down
world glinting up through hourglasses of years,
a mark impressed upon flesh; a scar harbouring
simple childhood...

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Mental bilocation is a complex but genuine experience occurring more frequently, than commonly thought. 

First time I experienced it I was twelve and it was...

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After college graduation,
Oh, so many years ago,
I traveled throughout Europe,
All my youthful seeds to sow.

With my friends, I took a ferry
To a popular Greek isle
Which...

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Beneath the mantel's alabaster gleam
Where verdigris flames pirouette, in cerulean ballet's beam...
We gather close—a familial love—
In hallowed halls where chimes of crystal laughter, stream.
Amid the...

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Christmas was really rocking                     ...

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There was a time
when we waited eagerly
for the mailman -
when mail deliveries 
            had...

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