Nostalgia Together Poems

from your first born, when you grab a dusting of talc, crushed with late night feeds, stirring in bouncing and stories on a knee,

adding a...

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Time passes, conversation and music ends,
light refracts, shimmers in water, bends.
Nails grow, hair lengthens, heads turn and bones break,
stems wilt, gardens overgrow, clouds regurgitate water...

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In some future I will voice all that is true,
how I swear your eyes glow, and whisper to me.
But the nonchalance I show, back turned...

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Don't forget
My Love...
My bud ... ,
My tenderness.
You have the key to my heart,
And you will always be in my soul
I love you
My princess
Now and forever.

My...

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Verse 1:
In the heart of Thanksgiving's traditions, beneath God's vast, crystal blue,
Families gather 'round His table, a quilt of memories old and new.
The harvest moon,...

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Remember (smiling) when:
You, me, the children then
Being out on the farm.

We were out tumbling in the yard, 
We had all tumbled so much
The fun we...

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Wireless switched off
memories flooding the airways 
hand on a worried shoulder
"we prepared for this".
Sentimental possessions 
letters for the beyond
"leave the keys"
crowded streets, 
face the madness
holding...

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Steal James Dean's car
Paint it
Marlboro Red
Marina Blue
Cocaine White
Slip down and cruise the coast
Skip town on the drop of a dime
1955 Porsche 550 Spyder in the...

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XMAS TRADITION

How I longed for the Xmas tradition we celebrated when I was growing up.  The Xmas tradition that still lives on; but we...

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and still she remembers that first sigh -
exhaling after breathing him in, the 
intoxicating him beside her, arms touching,
dust dancing in the air from his...

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That old knot is loosening, unspooling like a camera reel - it rolls away 
along floors revealing snapshots of you, developing me. Those frayed 
wires...

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so they lived
happily
ever after

until it was the end

it came so
suddenly
in spite of
repeated warnings

best we could
we tried to carry on
in naïve disbelief
till they lived happily
ever after
became...

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C ountry roots beckon regrets of past transgression
O ne-way ticket meant to soothe my innermost obsession
M emories of you not fading with passing of the...

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rows and rows of 
candied chocolates and
cardboard heartshapes

flash reminder how
time and again i would say
every single day with you
is valentine’s day

and you’d agree
in every way

can’t...

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my goodness we had good times
even when spent fretting in waiting rooms
not always getting the news we hoped for
we were together and felt we could...

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