Author: Ray Romine

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College Education (untitled)

Great thoughts, no doubt, are his who sits
And probes his mind and flogs his wits
To swell the sum of knowledge;
But greater things the man submits
Who thinks his thoughts, but never quits
His term at Hard-knocks College

by Ray Romine Tuesday, August 17, 1943

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Collector

Patiently, contentedly,
He catches butterflies;
Sorts and mounts and studies them
While he identifies
Each smallest one. They are,
Besides these happy hours,
Geology, geography,
Summer, sunshine, flowers.

There’s not in any man I know
Enthusiasm so alive!
It keeps his nerves and heart intact-And
himself young at eighty-five.

by Ray Romine Thursday, November 29, 1951

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Cold Start

Is your car these wintry mornings
Lying down upon the job?
Does it cough when you step on it,
Groan and shudder, heave a sob?

Well, don’t biame the old car too much–
Just recall, my son, instead
How YOU groaned and sobbed and shuddered
When YOU had to leave YOUR bed!

by Ray Romine Tuesday, February 27, 1934

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Coiffure-Concious

This is what Barbara Frietchie said,
Could we take from the fiction just what’s true:
“Shoot–if you mussed this old gray head
I could maybe get me that new hair-do!”

by Ray Romine Tuesday, September 27, 1949

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Cog

I catch my breath; who can but sigh
In wonder at the midnight sky
With splendor strewn? But at the core
I shall not feel inferior, for
We make one great Infinity–
I need the stars–they may need me.

by Ray Romine Sunday, March 12, 1950

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Coffee Break

I thought that I could love her
When with her I ate a snack
And I did ’til I discovered
That she drank her coffee black.

by Ray Romine Thursday, January 25, 1934

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Clouded Picture

“Television unnerved me!” –Costello
Declared in a post-hearing bellow.
Well, some of the rot
That our videos brought
Affected us ditto, dear fellow…

by Ray Romine Friday, April 6, 1951