Some of these poems are from a Poetry reading I did in 1959. Most of the verses here were published over the decades after I graduated high school.
These were written in Bucktown, Pa.
My dedication was to the Ladies of My Youth.
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“Spider and the Fly”,
“School is a Pain in the Neck”, “A Lesson is a Mess, Son”, “Molly’s Girdle”, “A
Regret”, “Rainy Days”, “When I was Alone”, “This Year 1959”
From “Twenty-Six Poems: A Reading”
February 1959
Sponcered by Agnes C. Manser
Owen
J. Roberts High School
Copyright 1958, 1959
Bucktown, Pa.
Copyright by Larry Eugene Meredith 2012
“Gatherings”,
and “Optimyth”
Publicly read at the “17tth Annual
Poetry Reading Against Nuclear Holocaust”
Displayed at the Ward Public
Library
Ward, Colorado
July 1998
Published in the Anthology
A Poem to Save the World: Readings Against Nuclear War
1998
“Old Man’s
Lament”
Second Saturday
Jo Allen, editor
Wilmington, Delaware
2005
“Leader’s
Sonnet”, “Lonely Months”, “Lost in Love”, Out Upon the Bay”, and “Laughter and
Loneliness”
Poetry Vortex
Dallas Kirk Gantt, editor
Wilmington, Delaware
2007
“Laughter and
Lonliness”
One Stop Poetry
Pete Marshall, editor
February 2011
“Lost in
Love”
Potluck Poetry
Jingle Poetry
Shashi, editor
August 2011
“A Group of
Noisy People”
Voices & Friends
A Little Something
Nancy Rosback, editor
December 2011
“Waitin’ for
Graduation”
Was written for the Class of ’59 Graduation
Committee
Owen J. Roberts High School April
1959
Bucktown, Pa.
Copyright by Larry Eugene Meredith 2009
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