Nostalgia Planet Poems

She is whipping winds.

Salt,
washing over my hair, eyes, skin.
Numbingly cold waters,
as if just unfrozen,
spilling into, refreshing
the Bay.

She hosts,

An eroded map
Of webbed and pebbled paths.
Barnacle scattered
grit.
Rolling...

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I remember the days
before technology
before computers
before cell phones
before smart tvs

In particular
I remember one summer day
when I heard on the radio
that the microwave oven
had been invented...

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World Assimilators

More and more to our suburban sprawl
Proliferating roads with rush hour crawl.
Crush of humanity completely unfurled
Replacing an irretrievable natural world
Along with farm lands never...

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Remember how the little triangle with its broken butt
Would shoot out bright bullets and shatter the approaching rocks
Into smaller pieces with a glorious sound
And how...

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do you remember as a child
when you and your friends
find a simple spot
of grass as
high as 
your knees that at that moment
you treat as bushes,...

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This strange creature ascended to earth from the stars.
He came from our nearby planet neighbor called Mars.
Ordinarily, he looks much like you or me,
except that,...

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Hammock Days

By Elton Camp

I don’t much like people for the old times pining 
“It was so much better back then,” they’re whining
I’ll take air conditioning,...

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Attractions
Bright lights everywhere

Distractions 
Noises fill the air

On this carnival planet
We’re all searching for something
But some will find nothing
And most have no clue where they’re going

I’m...

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I floated into the windless sky of the tranquil night visited by minuscule stars
that were subdued by dim moonbeams calling for some gleeful dreaming;
and I...

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A long long time ago, actually it was much further back than that
No one really knows the date as it's become just a human stat

Somewhere...

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The sun had begun to shine through the clouds
And the rain has finally stopped 
My soul is no longer pulled down towards the muddy waters
And...

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Late summer evening looking toward
The starlit sky
And feeling the droplets crawling toward the cotton
surrounding a neck that lips had once touched so lightly
In a moment...

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More than me that has been
and I cannot save a day
tomorrow shall I forfeit
and with every friendship pay

Cornerstone of gothic
a fireplace tonight
keep inside what cannot...

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