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 [...]
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 [...]
Posted in Poems & Stories | Tagged Angel, Ash, Awe, Break, change, Cheeks, Chocolate, Clouds, cry, cycle, dark, Desk, Ears, eyes, feeling, Feelings, Flower, flowers, Friend, Ghost, ghosts, girl, Grass, grief, Guess, heart, house, joy, kiss, Kisses, Lace, Lad, Lain, Life, Lips, lonely, Lost, Lost love, love, memories, memory, Mother, Mud, Nec, night, Nook, older woman romance, Picnics, Rain, School, Sea, shared nostalgia, sin, sleep, smile, Stories, Sun, Surprise, Tea, Token, Tree, Vine, war, world
By jivepoet on December 24, 2009
(1)My first Blue Mountains journeys were on Sydney’s country trains, With scenery improving, once I’d gone past Emu Plains. I did not know the passengers around me, but perhaps one Might care to play a card game, since we’d only come to Lapstone (2)I closed my vintage fiction novel fast. So I could then look, [...]
Posted in Poems & Stories | Tagged Autumn, Bloom, child, childhood, class, Concrete, cool, Ears, fiction, Fire, Flower, flowers, Friend, Game, Gloves, Hill, Horses, house, Journey, joy, Lace, Lad, Lain, Life, Lost, Lost love, love, Map, memory, night, Rain, scene, School, Sea, sin, spring, Sun, Train trip, Travel, Tree, Trees, war
By jivepoet on December 24, 2009
He stood on the edge of a suburb, where house windows faced an expanse Of bushes and forest and small hills; and readied himself, with a chance. He stood on the edge of a sunset, with houses not far from his rocks, And somehow the sunset was lengthened, slowed up through a trick of the [...]
Posted in Poems & Stories | Tagged Ash, breeze, Breezes, Bushes, change, child, Children, Colours, destiny, Direction, Ears, forever, Hill, house, Locks, Music, night, pain, Rain, Romance, sci-fi, Sharp, sin, Soar, soul-mate, Sun, Sunb, Sunset, time slowdown, Tree, Twilight, Vine, war, Wings, woman
By abraham on November 9, 2009
The Clairvoyant Little feet hastened on the grass, To the call of a mother, She was her mother since those days, Days of gory crimes the two were unaware, But there was one man, who knew it all, He dreamt of white flashes and red rivers, Suffered a saga of bloodshed, Drugged himself [...]
Posted in Poems & Stories | Tagged Ash, blood, dream, Ears, Feet, Friend, Grass, killing, Lost, love, Mother, night, Rain, Rivers, sin, Tea, tears, Tree, war, Wealth, woman
By PrairiePoems on July 19, 2009
I weave for you, again, No “sillysong”…. Of sunsets in the WEST- Or……drifting sky…… Or TWILIGHT HOURS, from forgotten days- or how the PRAIRIE wind…..goes singing by! I will not pause an hour again to build A castle….in the far dim land of DREAM- Or how the wind flows ever whispering by- Or bright with [...]
Posted in Poems & Stories | Tagged Angel, dream, dust, E A Poe, For you, Glee, Gold, Hats, Hill, Poem, Rain, sin, Sky, Sun, Sunset, Tree, Trees, Twilight
By PrairiePoems on July 19, 2009
The song of love is a sad song- I followed the trail and I know- The song of lvoe is an old song- And we lost it long ago! The song of love is a bright song- Tho bound in pain and woe- The song of love is a dear old song- FROM THE DAYS [...]
Posted in Poems & Stories | Tagged Bound, cold, dream, Ears, Gold, Hill, Life, Lost, love, pain, Rain, Rainbow, Rainbows, Sad, sin, spring, Woe
By PrairiePoems on July 19, 2009
O tree of trees, neath skies of blue I once was glad and young with you! And now at last you sing to me, Of all the years, that used to be! a tree who slowly, softly weaves, The “Songs of Summer” through her leaves! A tree who bends, as winds go by And autumn [...]
Posted in Poems & Stories | Tagged Autumn, Ears, Lad, love, Music, Musician, night, pain, Rain, sin, Sky, Sun, Sunset, Tree, Trees
By PrairiePoems on July 19, 2009
Old Sam Bass was another “bad-man”- There was othing else to do- When he stood up, he didn’t care a damn That HE WOULD SHOOT THE RANGERS DOWN, AND, RUN THE BOYS IN BLUE! He used to follow the race tracks- You would always see him there- An he had one good Pal, and true, [...]
Posted in Poems & Stories | Tagged Anger, Brain, Gold, Heaven, Lace, night, Poem, Rain
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