Category: Poems

Ray Romine Poems

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Disadvantage Point

In retrospect it is revealed
The things that youth demanded
Resemble very little those
The man finds himself handed.
Where lies the fault? I cannot say,
And I ought not be preaching
Who, at the undecided age,
Still wastes some time in reaching.

by Ray Romine Wednesday, December 6, 1950

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Disadvantage

To one so young, her parents seem
A hard-to-manage stubborn team
That stands forever in the way
Of everything that’s fun and play.
(They’ll handle easier when she
Has learned to use psychology!)

by Ray Romine Friday, January 25, 1946

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Direct Dissent

I do not hold with those whose fame
Rests on some great ancestor’s name.
Forget, I say, the things of yore
That aren’t important anymore.
(Forget too, please, society,
MY forbears’ notoriety) .

by Ray Romine Tuesday, June 13, 1950

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Direct Descent

Our daughter has an almost vicious
Hatred towards doing dishes,
Mending clothes and making beds,
Waxing stairs and ironing spreads;
And when it comes to floors of rooms,
Her aversion holds for mops and brooms.
Her mother now and then will rant
On this dislike for work. I can’t,
For while her attitude is bad,
The child inherited from dad….

by Ray Romine Thursday, April 13, 1950

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Different Horse

Please do not quote me poetry
With hot wild words emoting.
Won’t undertake to stay awake
(Unless it’s I you’re quoting).

by Ray Romine Tuesday, August 9, 1949

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Different

“Big things have small beginnings”–
Or so I’ve ever heard;
Then how explain our meeting, dear,
And the way our hearts were stirred?

Perhaps our big beginning
Will end a molecule?
No–we are the exception
That goes to prove the rule!

by Ray Romine Monday, October 20, 1947