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Old Times

Old Times

Sometimes walking can be a journey into the past
Sometimes, but always, this is a lifestyle
Hmm. Take a walk in a cemetery?

Yes. Switched off the present
Old gravestones are glittering
Beautiful music is heard
Calling another life

The passed souls are
dancing from their lives
Happy people live in the past

Switched off my present
I stay with them
I live there

Stay
The past

Dime Bag Days

Take me back to the dime bag days
     when we were hotel hippies, 
thirsty for trouble and stuck in a state 
     of delirium.

Our souls were scattered messes
     among the unbent hills - 
dreaming of rebellion and freedom,
     pockets empty, heart's empty 

Having no sense of direction and 
     craving toxicity like it is a 
natural remedy. We were walking
     disasters, baddie two shoes.

Old Times

Over the years things have changed. 

Looking back at the funny photos.

Dad wore sneakers on the beach.

 
 

Time where have you gone?

Ineed a memory replay.

Mom with her apron on.

Eeating home cooked meals.

Smells did linger though the house.
 

Date Written: 11/26/2020
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Old Times and New Times

old times and knew times

  I was thinking about how I live now in a big apartment
with four bedrooms and their bathroom, and I study for me.
As a child, my mother and two other siblings had two
rooms and half a kitchen; the other half belonged to a woman
who had one room and two children.
She often had male visitors, and the children had to sit in the hall, and I told them stories, when my father and I crossed the Sahara on camelback, not that I knew my father he was always absent.
We had no bathroom, but there was a toilet in the basement
it had rats coming up from the bowl, one had to flush several times
before sitting down hoping the best. Peeing was done in
the kitchen sink.
We were poor but didn´t know it as everybody was poor it was
the way it was, but we laughed a lot the slightest thing set us off, 
and my brother was great joke teller, and we enjoyed ourself hugely.
Living in a big apartment, I ask myself what happened to mirth
I know, I think, we just got old and our sense of humour,
think I have to go out and look for it-

Old Times Time

Do you remember
Skipping with a rope..alone
Or catching 'jacks' with stones.
Do you recall
Tennis against an old brick wall
Or conker contests in the fall.
Did you chalk out hopscotch squares
Play make believe,games of dare
Hide and seek or touch and run
In a childhood wrapped in fun.
Is simplicity a thing of the past
Will life in a circle turn
Will common sense..return?

Old Times Tell

L-et
O-ne
U-nique
I-dea
S-imply
A-pply

M-essage
A-bout
Y-oung

A-ge
L-etting
C-omposer's
O-ld
T-imes
T-ell

Topic: Birthday of Poetess Louisa May Alcott (November 29) 
Form: Vertical Monocrostic

Just Like Old Times

Bumped into a friend
just yesterday
I was driving my car
and she got in the way

She said nothing was broken
the impact was minor
Mostly bruises and cuts
and a pretty good shiner

I took her to breakfast
and told her a joke
She was laughing so hard
she started to choke

I gave her the Heimlich
and then she was fine
While everyone cheered
we continued to dine

I finished my eggs
plus her corned beef hash
She picked up the check
since I don't carry cash

Then we took a ride
when I got a flat
She changed the tire
while watching, I sat

We went to the park
to her favorite thing
where she asked me to push
while she rode on the swing

But careless was she
as she went too high
and flew off the seat
up into the sky

And then she came down
right onto a bush
full of prickly thorns
straight into her tush

To the hospital entrance
I gave her a lift
and away from my car
she limped fairly swift

But before that she said
(if you'll pardon these rhymes)
"Whenever we meet
it's just like old times"



Mike Wise
10-21-19

Old Times

Old journal page
Yellow with age


Flip through old times
Feel mellow chimes


Word pictures tell
Zest that cast spells


Here and there browse
Odd smiles arouse


Each peek now hooks
Feel in this book


Writes in clear jot
Once felt so hot


Frozen thoughts thaw
Old memoirs raw


I come to see
Flash memory


Old times can meet
On goodbye streets




Leon Enriquez
20 September 2017
Singapore

Old Times

Craft charming cheer as apt art aims,
Love makes all things to fashion proof;
Align feelings to play life's game,
Sense how time flings a lasting truth;
See that you see the way turn wild,
Instruct your heart to know your soul;
Claim what will be your prize my child.
Opt poignant start to discern whole,
Last light hurls here when day departs;
Dance dazzling deep where wonder wills.
Thrill vivid cheer as portal parts,
Intuit sans sleep how purpose thrills;
Must matter mind the unknown route,
Embrace wise finds with sensuous shouts;
Seize thus not blind both ins and outs.




Leon Enriquez
31 July 2017
Singapore

Old Times

Go quickly now
Purge why and how


Dance in that dream
Ooze in lost streams


Go fade away
Thus ends last day


Watch old times die
Beyond those highs


Go when you can
Exit old span


Tact follows act
Don't just react


Go with a smile
Know ends that style


One for the road
Unleash old loads


Go with the wind
Unknown, unseen




Leon Enriquez
17 January 2017
Singapore

Old Times

Observe the flow of dancing light,
Urge joy to thrill that precious whole;
Reach for that glow that sparkles sight.
Glimpse how love feels in your own soul,
Oblige the cast of poignant zest;
Outlive the craze in inner child,
Dance first and last your affluent best.
Oomph floods the daze in thoughts gone wild,
Live deep delight where time stands still;
Defy the odds of bitter gall.
Dream in clear sight with feisty feel,
Allow for God to let you fall;
Yield to your soul a mindful heart,
Sense a true whole where love moves art.




Leon Enriquez
08 January 2017
Singapore

Old Times

Old times speak soft
From poignant loft


Here and now hurl
As moments curls


Times once so fresh
Now distant flash


Change and old age
Cast a new page


Here we are dear
Wrinkles of cheer


So much now past
To feel at last


Old times loiter
Mind games foibles


Old primal tease
Awkward odd ease


Fumble with form
Change alters norm


Yet grace frees truth
To fact new proof


Here face to face
Old times tint space


Our journey path
In dreamy stuff


Writes cannot tell
Our story well




Leon Enriquez
13 December 2016
Singapore

Just Like the Old Times

Missing the old times
Missing an old friend
Her smile on her cheeks
Reminds me of sweet days.

Old conversations
We talked things over
We ended up laughing
Rolling on the floor

Through worst days
We held each other’s hand
Tears were memorable
She’s my best friend.

Missing the old times
Missing an old friend.
I’ll keep on thinking
Till we meet again.

Good Old Times

Notice the way of space and time
Ebb and flow sway like edgy rhymes.


Notice the thought that hurls away
Each play and plot comes just to stray


Notice the strains of song and dance
Each a complaint that freaks with chance.


Notice the lines blank and unrhymed
Straight and aligned to bleed new time


Notice the words of music rhymes
Curls and curves heard in surreal chimes


Notice the feel when fond writes come
The true heart heals with fest that sums


Notice the place of time and space
Wear a warm face as feelings trace


Notice the end just as you start
Our mortal trend comes part by part.



Leon Enriquez
03 August 2014
Singapore

About Old Times

About old times have often thought
And all the things I should have bought
But now only as memories all still exist
To write poems people insist and persist.

So another new poem I now will write
About the time I was flying a kite
Wind was bad and there was poor me
Whose body was almost blown out to sea.

My wife thought I was clever and cute
And was a Horn who didn't give a hoot
My memories of the past all now fade
As I am here now sitting in the shade.

God in His great glory will come one day
Gladly greet and with Him take me away
You're here in heavenly finally at last
Gone by has each moment of my past

James Thomas Horn

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