Short Scrapbooks Poems

I Wasn't Born Yesterday

   I'm 96 years old. I can't remember at what point
   my life became an endurance event. My scrapbooks
   are full of ghosts. My lovers were buried long ago.
   My family thinks I'm from another world. Maybe I am....

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Safe Driving Demo
 

Quick reaction time

driving in front of the school

fastest stop won prize

beat the top three high school boys

girls have the best reflexes


Sandra M. Haight

~1st Place~
Contest: Let's Hear It
Sponsor: Judy Konos
Judged: 02/10/2016

Theme: Get your scrapbooks out! Bring your memories back! 
Something from our high school or college days.
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adventurous days
running through wildflower fields
carefree memories
of playing with my siblings
birthday parties and skating

first day of grade school
a bit shy to make new friends
riding a school bus
Sesame Street with Big Bird
snacking on cookies and milk

waiting for Santa
holidays and Christmas trees
loving family
lots of giggles and laughter
old photographs in scrapbooks


August 13, 2022
Childhood Nostalgia Contest
Sponsored by JCB Brul...

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Like a limb blown off in a Sixties' war 
Will haunt with a ghost of it's own; 
No way to scratch the itch, 
It's all in the mind, 
Whispers "surprise!" every once in a while. 

To me you have become this way, 
Gone but shedding traces; 
I feel the phantom pain 
From when I was whole, 
In the absence of your being there. 

Then to everything I miss, 
My dog-eared days compile 
Sorrowed scrapbooks of emotions, 
It's all in the mind, 
Yet my tears are always so real…...

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