AUGUST 2023 -- High School Reunion

 

© 2023 LJR

 

Those day of high school classes

Those days of tests and books

Those days when too much energy

Was focused on our looks

Now that we are older

We’ve found a better truth

Time has proved a leveler

We’ve grown beyond our youth

Now when we come together

There’s an overwhelming sense

We’ve all been burnished by life’s fires

Gone are posturing and pretense

We look beyond the gray hair

The wrinkles here and there

We look beyond old school cliques

At our age . . . no one really cares

It’s the faces we remember

The voices we recall

That certain bit of laughter

That reminds us of it all

So come, we’ll chat and visit

We’ll revisit high school days

Thankful for those memories

Yet glad those are yester-days

 

 

JULY 2023 -- Time Travel

 

 

© 2023 LJR

 

When . . .

Verdant valleys spread their shoulders

And hidden lakes were cold and deep

Bald eagles circled on the thermals

And shaggy bison found sweet grass

Forests climbed the mountain ridges

And clouds caressed those lofty peaks

There came a sense of freedom

With each deep refreshing breath

The past is not the present

But the present has its gifts

Embrace ancestral yearning

Set your compass to explore

There are still places waiting

To take us back in time