jchslaton

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jchslaton
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I am a retired IT guy who has been dabbling in poetry since I was a teenager. you can find a few of my poems on the web at jslion.wordpress.com

  March 2022     12 months ago

Submitted Poems 4 total

Where are your shoes?

Where did your shoes go? Where could they be?
Are they under the bed or up in a tree?
How could your shoes have wandered so far?
To the back of the couch or inside the car?
Sometimes they scatter like kittens, I know,
One next to the sink and...

by Jonathan Slaton

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added 2 years ago
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Dead Man's Clothes

Dead man’s Clothes

I’m wearing some clothes from my old best friend.
He doesn’t know it, but then, at the end.
He didn’t know much as the brain tumor grew.
It spread through his mind, and the memories flew.

He was...

by Jonathan Slaton

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added 1 year ago
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The Old Pear tree

The Old Pear Tree

It lay as it fell,
The old Pear tree
I tried to count the yearly rings,
They were too much for me.

For over sixty years it grew,
Free standing in the field,
While all the creatures, great and small
Enjoyed its fruitful...

by Jonathan Slaton

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A prayer for the children of Ukraine

I cannot now remember when the rockets did not fall,
When soldiers did not walk the streets, and mama did not cry
When trees were green, not blackened, and the buildings still stood tall
I can’t recall those golden days, no matter how I try.

...

by Jonathan Slaton

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added 1 year ago
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