Selections from Trella Romine's library at Terradise Nature Center
Ray Romine Poems
Long or short? Shall skirt and suit
Be eleven inches from the floor?
Or sixteen? Or a little more?
I think this controversy sad;
But, while the female bathing suit
Maintains its stand
A yard or so above the sand,
Why I ain’ t mad………..
by Ray Romine Tuesday, March 8, 1949
Resolved: I will; resolved: I won’t-
Another year is dying.
And though I know 12 months ago
Repeats itself, I’m trying!
by Ray Romine Sunday, September 11, 1949
We learn a little more each day
About our lives: that which surrounds us;
But we grow no smarter, sad to say,
For all our knowledge but confounds us!
by Ray Romine Monday, January 1, 1945
I’ll resolve again , or bust–
Last year I flopped, but then,
If at first you escape uncursed
Why lie, lie again.
by Ray Romine Sunday, September 11, 1949
Of all the toy store excuses
Any parent is waylaid with,
This above them all bemuses:
“All my toys at home are played with!”
by Ray Romine Thursday, May 11, 1950
Statistics I have never learned,
Their over-all length, their wheelbases.
With just thing am I concerned:
How do they fit the parking spaces?
by Ray Romine Saturday, June 19, 1954
Her cooking knack–her battered range,
She said, was undermining it.
But I have noticed, since the change,
Her range-work’s mostly shining it!
by Ray Romine Tuesday, September 26, 1950
We invite you most cordially: please do attend
our housewarming. Bring pies ancl salads and meat,
For we’ve re-checked our budget, and if you unbend
We assure you the hosts will have something to eat…
by Ray Romine Tuesday, June 9, 1953
Our new fish swims around the bowl.
Escaping is his only goal;
But he will settle when he’s found
That his small world, like mine, is round.
by Ray Romine Thursday, January 10, 1952
From these new models, lush and large,
Some guys get a fancy charge;
But I confess I sit and smolder
At what makes my car one year older.
by Ray Romine Monday, January 21, 1952