Childhood Ode Poems

I want to go back
to my childhood home
for it was the place where I was
the most happy
when I close my eyes I can see
our row...

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WHEN I WAS A LITTLE boy

i knew no wisdom
i knew no hate
i knew no lies

WHEN I GREW UP

i understood history
i understood love
i understood truth

NOW AS...

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O the pool, the pool,
A really cool treasure,
A hole filled with water
Just for your pleasure,
For a slippery dive,
Or a pool-bottom glide,
A splash and a kick,
Or...

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Image by: Kimberlee Baxter
The nonpareil of a a violin plays late into a golden era
its "An Autumnal Farewell, by Debussy"

With magnificent beauty in dazzling colors...

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Goodbye to the leprechauns
goodbye clover carpets of green
I will cross many a deep blue sea
 to a wide sunshine land, just for me.

I have my...

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Empty carousels, windswept,
Echoes of pattering feet fading away in the dirge-like wind, mourning like doves.
Empty swings in the park, a waning sun looks mournfully at...

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The writer in me says I must be,                 ...

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She was of this rich 
          earth and clay
a beautiful lass so full of life 
and...

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To die an old man, tasks left on slow burn, 
And as fake coins do, get reborn ‘pon earth; 
Work harder still, more mileage points...

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I  cannot recall my very first place 
as a baby I did not know my home; 
a new baby's room dressed with pretty lace...

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It is a beautiful spring morning,                   ...

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I remember when I was seventeen years
        earth to me
was nothing more than 
a highlands and lowlands
inhabited and...

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PS contests – self sustained muse,
Versatile mix to pick and choose.
Soothing lullabies by Eve
Swing us to childhood retrieve.

Kai’s round cube confirms the theme
That things are...

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Ode to the Grandkids

My gaze, grandkids, you inspire me to write.
I love the way you laugh, trust and cherish,
Devoting my mind day and through the...

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Today I started off eating breakfast,                   ...

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