Wife Nostalgia Poems

Afternoon musing, not quite content,
Wondering where the time all went -
The time not really given, only lent.

The first day of fourth grade,
In the next desk...

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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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  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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The wooden floor wore
decades of dust. 
Near the doorway
brooms grew out of a fire bucket 
and bloomed in an odd
array of heads. A pile of...

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She tells me every time she reads what I write
Her head goes up in the clouds
The same feeling she gets when I turn her pages
Handling...

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Remember (smiling) when:
You, me, the children then
Being out on the farm.

We were out tumbling in the yard, 
We had all tumbled so much
The fun we...

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Since you wanna play riddles and poetry puzzles with me
Before we go any further - allow me to bring you up to speed
I just got...

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Lately, I failed to notice
My wife had worn
A new piece of jewelry I'd bought her.
She informed me, when I asked about it,
Quite matter-of-factly, that I...

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My gallery of timeless treasure!!!

Keeping some memories frozen in time,
Photos can make the moments alive,
Connecting us to our past in seconds,
Some bonds close to heart...

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A meeting of two moms can be a wonderful thing a meeting of two minds is a beautiful thing…

Shortly after we moved into our new...

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In memory she’s pretty and young, 
Dressed in Land Army girls dress
(Where my memory starts to fail
False memory fills in the rest),
Fresh faced, full breasted,...

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From my mother, I've learned to savor the present,
To be relaxed and at ease,
To be kind and considerate to all those I meet,
And to keep...

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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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Upon the Banks of the Canal

I sit here sipping cider on the banks of the canal,
I watch you as you walk and talk at great...

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The discovery at aged seventy
Explained to me at last
The source of my problems 
From way way back in my past.
Not just a clumsy country idiot,
All...

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