Nostalgia Today Poems

“Don't let yesterday take up too much of today”
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   Petal-pushers and hula hoops
     ‘Greasy Kid Stuff’ – smear on the goop
   Baseball card gum that...

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May yesterday be kinder
Let is shelter her and show her how to play
May today remind her
How dewdrops gleam in morning’s rosy rays
Though yesterday’s behind her
A...

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Dancing

We were married in the Spring. 
Everyone came... 
It was a beautiful day, 
that I will re-live in my heart, 
again and again, forever and...

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Once there were rules on which we all agreed
    Red meant stop; green meant go; as for yellow --
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Remember when - Rain or Shine
    the mail must go through

  Today - the junk on top is mine
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Hello, friend today.

I met you beneath a baby blue sky with nary
a cloud in sight. 

You had sandy blonde hair
And sun bleached skin.

I remember thinking...

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Wads of Bazooka Joe under my seat
     cigarette smoke in the john

   Butting in line for some 'mystery meat'
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We were a country where people roamed free
   where you drove cross-country without paying a fee

We were a country where folks dreamed big...

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Hey, snoop-hound, off my grass
  Can't you read 'No Trespass'

Nothing's private anymore
  Not even our thoughts

So alien to how we grew up
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Remember sitting around 
  with nothing to do
Watching paint dry on a fence
  or bees doing what they do

Was life really that slow...

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Before, a thousand letters
    didn't kill
    nostalgia...
   Today, just one click
   and the longing dies...
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Strong was the art our eyes would steal.

Long was the waiting for hearts to heal.

Meeting in strange and unusual places,

Leathered and crease-worn, fragile faces,

Swirling with...

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I miss yesterdays 
I would trade a brand-new tomorrow 
For an old used yesterday
Allow me to explain 
The yesterdays of my life I know 
I...

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lesson five

meals won’t be fun
alone
the clock will ring noon
i’ll hear myself say
o no, not again ~
then it will ring six
with the echo of 
o no,...

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