Youth

My Junior and Senior years in high school, I had a favorite show;
It took place in beautiful Tahiti...

She grounds me to the earth like roots in soil
The constant love and faithfulness all time
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Inspired by Dean Kuch’s frightening poem “I Am A Horror Writer”

When I was a lad of only six, I...

Photograph of The Maypole Dance, Fairview High School, circa 1960's
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An event dating back...

In the Summer of 1964, I was dealing in coins full time;
Foreign ones were really hot then, the...

The old structure leans, slight pitch to the right—
once stout foundations returning to dust....

If I’d been born in 1840; I mighta been from old New York
Wearin’ blue at Fort Blakely, or fightin’...

Young lovers pledged a solemn vow one spring
as daffodils and daisies burst, anew.
Each...

The day that I turned twenty-one, July 20th, nineteen sixty-five;
It became legal for me to buy a...

See the world that's what the poster said
Were they messing with my head ?
No mention of...

Whenever I get a chance during the interval,
I see him smile,
I see him laugh,
I watch...

Soaring, flying up in the sky.
I am your own pair of wings to try.
I dance in the warm...

BB Bats-A Penny Saved Is A Penny Earned

I just told Linda about a taffy sucker, that she’d...

Like ' Thanatopsis'
In its majesty and contrary brooks
A major contemplation
On death...

Inspired by Jim Croce’s song “I Got A Name”
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In the Fall of nineteen sixty-two, I was...

At a young age I gave away a part of me
To an older boy, aged just thirteen
Hair mousy brown...

They say that you should be happy with yourself. That ‘you’re beautiful just the way you are’. Yet why do I...