Childhood Nowhere Poems

The other side of nowhere

Clear running water.
The other side of nowhere.
In the deep forest.

A place we once played.
Away from the scorching sun.
As children we joyed....

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A definite air permeates
When in the walls of my room
Projected productivity is it?
Or rather the reflection of what those expect of me

Identity found... lost, through...

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Walking through the streets of downtown, I find there’s something—Or someone,
following my steps
like a nagging fly, always around the corner, just out of reach
Can’t seem...

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Sleep stupor continues through waking state
Feral instincts to surface gravitate
We stumble and fumble as though in trance
Life spinning out of control, left to chance
Fears and...

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Fourth Floor of nowhere- had a back room where
I spent some secret time, in younger days;
a huge- yet empty space above the stair
that led me...

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rural sewage, twister tunnel runs
like water damaged dust and rat
feces soaking the lawn down to 
a dog in the ground a town over
rusted tin and...

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Jake Has Nowhere To Go

By Elton Camp

When he was a bouncing baby boy
Jake was his parents’ pride and joy

Childhood was what it should be
Playful, happy...

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Monroe is boring as hell.
I'm all dressed up,
With nowhere to go.
Youngsters are getting,
Much more action.
This place gives,
Me no satisfaction.
Whoa now,
I feel like a mule
Pulling a...

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Nowhere to go
~~~~~~~~~~~~
Under a red and white sky he walks
A journey to escape betrayal and despair
This directionless quest necessary
It's the only chance to find his...

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A little girl sat on a big flat rock
Out in the middle of nowhere.

She sat and she watched as the people ran by
Out in the...

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