David McLansky Poems

What will be gained by saying “Nay”
What’s modesty preserved?
Love re-beckons every day
Love is not reserved;
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I spoke too quickly in my haste,
You grieve and mourn at widow’s pace;
I entered wildly at his wake
And sought to win you, a child’s mistake;
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I make concessions to my wife
No longer expert on my own life,
My children are a rowdy bunch
Why what they do I have no hunch;
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Grandpa only had one arm,
He fell off the tractor behind the barn
This was the full extent of his charm
Shirtless he sat to my alarm.
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Should I with love
Answer silent
And not reply
My loving tyrant;
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Oh sweetly heard calling songstress
Who nightly wanders in her long dress
Singing sadly 'till the dawn
Who calls as one as all forlorn;
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Those lovely nymphs of yore,
Who tended carefully the trees
By Oceania's shores;
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Momma had a clothespin bag
Hanging from the line
Filled with old grey clothespins,
The wooden, springy kind,
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The Mummers (5)

Pelted by cruel boys with stones,
Hunted, hounded, left alone,
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When I consider how my days were spent
My aimless drift in hapless, cluttered years
The foolish choices wherein my pride was rent
I the butt of mockery and sneers;
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