Childhood Usa Poems

days dry as can be
rain are you hiding from me
clouds I need to see...

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To All Who Gave Their Lives

Far across the seas, they went, to keep this great land ….safe and free.
I was just a wee bit of...

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My Heart Bleeds Red, and I Think Yours Beats Blue.


Living together as Neighbors with a White Picket Fence between, Since Our Kids were in Kindergarten,...

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I don’t have a Mom the eleven-year-old says.
Do you have a Dad? I ask him. He shakes his head ‘no’.
Who takes care of you?
I live...

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In the fifties,  I was a child of six
we moved to a small town in what some might
tauntingly  call, the middle of the...

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It is not patriotic
to desecrate a flag
or even denigrate a nationalistic anthem
celebrating a war-torn patriotic flag.

Yet is it even anti-patriotic
to refuse to bow to it,
the...

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I remember my childhood in the good ol' USA
Fireworks at the lakefront every Independence Day
But that all was concluded twenty years ago today
The Union was...

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It's the third verse,
I got the urge to purge
All the curt words I've splurged,
I've submerged in sin,
I'll go to church repent,
Then go curse again,
Lets reverse...

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Perhaps, it would be Rockwell’s second choice
for my happy home has many different voices.
All around a small man-made lake they walk
proud American’s, multi lingual, they...

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Children whom the schools can’t teach,
Nor the courts can’t reach—
Parents give up, too;
Children for awhile survive,
Later when they’re twenty-five,
Some wear prison blue....

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