Husband Nostalgia Poems

Under the tree, I sit once again
A long decade it has been
Before, a girl, lost and alone
A woman into which she has grown 

Memories flood...

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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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One for my comfy onesie, a word not invented yet in 1953.
Two twins – me and my sis against the world
Three favorite foods now are...

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Summer's hunter-green fields yielded to autumnal beige
and vermillion,
soon came the frosted air and cardinals singing in
snowy pine boughs.
Deer shyly emerged from woodlands edge for feed
families...

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We were accustomed to being in the military living in the
barracks, having inspections and following the rules.
Yet, at summer's zenith, my sweetheart and I and...

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When I was young I wasn't much into hugs
or prolonged touch..
I tolerated a peck on the cheek or a kiss
on the forehead before falling asleep..
Probably...

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how do you like my thongs? the corpulent cow asked me.
I heard my children behind her chuckle with a loud tee-hee-hee.
They were looking at her...

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even her dungeon was painted amethyst
     her husband, his unforgiving jail cell he missed...

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The New Yorker said Casablanca was “pretty tolerable”
No one expected it to do great things.
It was surprising when it won Best Picture of 1942.
Eighty-one years...

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Dad

I can't believe
Your here old man
You made it through the rough..

I love your
Laugh and chuckle..
For me that is enough.

But boy you've had a lifetime
And crammed...

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We stayed out late at night: back then;
In the warmer months of the season
We would go down to the lake for fun.

If it hadn't been...

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The old photo is in dull black and white gray scale
However, this cannot dull or blemish our well-loved Cher
We recognize her face, attitude and fabulous,...

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Pirates Remember

In the days of old, 
the ships were bold, 
and went anywhere they pleased. 
They were men, 
hard men, real men...
released from the burdens...

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We are from the sixties, I am Marilyn, and she is Jane.
They are wearing leopard, tightly, and seem a bit insane.
We have painted our car...

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For example, take my wife—Please!

Who was that lady you were dancing with?
That was no lady—That was my wife!

I bought my husband a chair for his...

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