Youth

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”
.
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...

It feels like I’m sinking further everyday. Constantly being swept by the sea of life’s sway. Every time I...

Remember back to more happier days
in the fields, on them summer nights drunk.
We sang and...

I think when I was nine or ten, the Yo-Yo craze began;
Buy one and then practice hard, learn all...

One of the first songs that a youngster plays, when the piano they try to learn;
Is the two-part...