By jivepoet on January 10, 2010
(1)If you’d found a way to hold your own against the playground bully,
Would you go to school reunions now, and share old classroom tales?
If you’d opened up, so counselors could understand you fully,
Would the knowledge they’d acquired have taken more wind from your sales?
(2)If you’d stood up to your father, when he made you go [...]
Posted in Poems & Stories | Tagged alone, Brain, child, childhood, Choice, Christian, class, considering alternate outcomes, destiny, Father, Foe, Friend, Friends, girl, Lad, leaders, Life, list, Mom, night, nostalgia, Rain, reviewing one's past, School, Travel, Voices, war
By jivepoet on December 24, 2009
(1)Young Tom visited his great aunt, until he was ten years old,
And soon after his next birthday, her old mansion would be sold,
Since she died, and he would miss them both, as nine years changed the date.
He completed school, did two years work, and started college late.
(2)At the end of his first Uni year, he [...]
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By PrairiePoems on July 19, 2009
If we could trade away our “lost tomorrows”
And win with them the “Years that used to be”-
The young girl, with the brown eyes’
By the table…..the whispering winds in Spring-
That sang to me!
The crimson tinted clouds of Early Morning-
The summerdays so softly laid to rest!
The rustling corn, the night,
With twiight falling-
Of all these days, which do [...]
Posted in Poems & Stories | Tagged Clouds, dream, Early Morning, Ears, eyes, falling, girl, Lost, night, spring, Twilight
By PrairiePoems on July 19, 2009
Here is one to “old man dreams”
that we just wrote today, Grandpa
And I and the “Guardian Angel”…….
Dreams, Old Dreams, is a funny old man-
For you never, never can tell0
Which of his dreams, when the night time comes,
HE…..IS BRINGING TO YOU……TO SELL!
It may be a dream, of the “Hellava” time
When Herrman crossed the divide-
Then…durried home….tho no [...]
Posted in Poems & Stories | Tagged alone, Angel, Angels, Blow, dream, Dreamer, dreams, Ears, eyes, For you, fun, funny, girl, Gold, Grandpa, Hell, kiss, love, Moon, night, Tea, tears, These Dreams, war, world
By PrairiePoems on June 24, 2009
Then the little dog looked up at me-
And his eyes were soft and dim….
“And did he remember Annabel Lee?
“And did she remember him?”
There is no song so dear to me-
Till lifes last tale is told-
and over her tomb, the silver moon
Turns all her beams, to gold!
Was there a valley of singing trees?
And a kingdom by [...]
Posted in Poems & Stories | Tagged Angel, Angels, Beautiful, dream, dreams, eyes, girl, Gold, Haunt, Haunted, lies, Life, lonely, Moon, Moonlight, Sea, sin, spring, Tree, Trees
By PrairiePoems on June 24, 2009
When I was just a little kid,
In years all flown away-
I learned a little Darkie Song-
They called it Nelllie Gray
And I have played it all my life-
Since that golden time-
And every fidddle that I had-
Sang this old song of mine!
“When the moon has climbed the Mountains”
Seemed the sweetest line to me :
Tho I never saw [...]
Posted in Poems & Stories | Tagged Angel, Angels, dark, Ears, girl, Gold, heart, Life, Moon, Sea, sin, Sky, soul
By PrairiePoems on June 24, 2009
I first called this poem “Yound Days” But one night when I swept the school house out
I found this on her tablet written before she left
fifty years ago
Last Night of Seventeen
So take it for the Title
She wrote the name for my poem fifty years ago
When prairie winds blow as the winter goes by
She sleeps there [...]
Posted in Poems & Stories | Tagged alone, Blow, Dad, Daddy, Ears, girl, house, night, Poem, School, sin, sleep, snow, Sun, Tea, Tree
By PrairiePoems on June 24, 2009
LAY DOWN THE BOOK;
To late a warning should begiven that the damn book is no good!
Don’t waste your time in LOOKING,
READER, SAY, AGREE WITH ME
And…. throw the book away!
KEATS wrote only one song-
How in the Meade
HE LIFTED THE YOUNG GIRL
UPON A STEED!
And LED THE HORSE, and watched
Her all the day-
While She would sideways lean
The hours [...]
Posted in Poems & Stories | Tagged breeze, dream, dreams, eyes, girl, Gold, Golden Dreams, heart, Hearts, kiss, Kisses, love, poetry, sin, Singing Bird, Sun, Sunset, Tree, Trees, war
By PrairiePoems on June 24, 2009
Someday, you will read Edgar Allan Poe’s, “Annable Lee” as I did long ago.
For many and many a year ago-
In a kingdom, by the sea……
A lonely poet wrote a song,
And called it “Annabel Lee”…….
They call him “The-Haunted-Poet” now….
“And the stars were as bright as her eyes!”
And the valley they left, on that faroff day….
STILL….UNDER….THE….MOONLIGHT….LIES!
THERE IS [...]
Posted in Poems & Stories | Tagged Beautiful, dream, dreams, eyes, girl, Gold, Haunt, Haunted, lies, Life, lonely, Moon, Moonlight, Sea, sin, spring, Tree, Trees
By PrairiePoems on June 17, 2009
DARK WERE HER EYES-
Like her sad dark life-
And her HOME was a boat on the sand-
Just an overturned wreck of a lonely boat-
Where she lived, by the sounding sea!
She looked at me, and her deep dark eyes,
Where the shadows, when twilight is dim-
And I talked with her Grandma-
Beside the old boat,
That travels the Waves, no [...]
Posted in Poems & Stories | Tagged Boat, Bound, dark, Ears, eyes, girl, Grandma, Life, Little Girl, lonely, Sad, Sea, Shadow, Sky, Sun, Travel, Twilight, Waves, world
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