Childhood was Big @ otoh

Childhood was Big

Call it one of those cosmic coincidences [if you believe in such stuff]. While driving home yesterday I listened for a time to a local college radio station and heard [former U.S. Poet Laureate] Billy Collins reading his poem Nostalgia. The title fits nicely with the post about my first crush and I like the humor of the piece.

Here it is:

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What do you think?

Posted on April 21st, 2009 Tim 4 comments

humor, otoh
4 responses to “Childhood was Big”
1. lime April 22nd, 2009 at 08:20
  
  ah yes, the good old days, the dark ages. hahaha.
  
  and first crushes. my kindergarten bf was the class psycho but i don’t recall “crushing” on him. more like wanting to prevent him from blowing up the school.
2. Aymiee April 23rd, 2009 at 23:14
  
  ahhh…. made me nostalgia for my previous beaus also. (never know if I’m using that word correctly..) Another poem/song that gets me peering into my past is: “Met my old lover in the grocery store………….Just for a moment I was back at school, And felt that old familiar pain…..”
  
  “And as I turned to make my way back home, the snow… turned in… to raaaaaaaiiiiiiinnnnnnn……” Yeah, that one gets me too. ~Tim
3. mary April 26th, 2009 at 19:59
  
  the 1790′s will never come again… i liked that line. i have no nostalgia, especially about past crushes.
4. unowhat April 27th, 2009 at 22:23
  
  Fogelberg is great, but “We took her groceries to the checkout stand/The food was totaled up and bagged” is up there with “As the big freighters go, it was bigger than most” or “Loneliness is magical, and sadness is tragical” for Not-Great-Lyrics.
  
  Melody is pretty, though.
  
  Yeah, I have no soul.
  
  Oh, and his name was Bobby, and we were both six. I was cuter then.

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