If only it could be still again like it was on winter afternoons at twenty minutes past five, when the day seemed to have laid down its arms before entering the truce tent of night. Source
@Charles Louis , your words paint a picture in my mind of snowy winter afternoons I have seen. Welcome to SoC!
A really big WELCOME to you, Charles Louis! At 97, you've got to be the eldest on the Forum, for sure! Hal, age 84
Interesting blog, Charles. Welcome to SOC. I particularly like your 9/11 poem; hope you don't mind that I shared it here: Nine Eleven On September eleven when it happened while we watched we could not help thinking about our own thin brick walls left standing around us here, in the heartland. Walled in between panic and gratitude we sat gaping, not noticing how our helpless tears would not stop falling.
@Charles Louis, please let me know if you'd like me to change the title of this thread to something more descriptive of your site.
It looks like he made a mistake on his age, @Hal Pollner , and was actually born in 1933. So, Charles is still older than you, but not as much as it appeared.
I read a number of the Butler Pennsylvania Poems this evening. Those I read I liked. Very good, thinks I. I did look to see if you had posted here to any extent or merely wanted your poems out there. Like to see more of you on the forum as a participant. Some of like the prose poems. Yours are most worthwhile. Thanks for the read.