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Book: Songs of a Sun-Lover

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  • The Battle Of The Bulge
    This year an ocean trip I took, and as I am a Scot
    And like to get my money's worth I never missed a meal.
    27 lines, 1 comment
  • The Christmas Tree
    In the dark and damp of the alley cold,
    Lay the Christmas tree that hadn't been sold;
    79 lines, 1 comment
  • White Christmas
    My folks think I'm a serving maid
    Each time I visit home;
    64 lines, 1 comment
  • The End Of The Trail
    Life, you've been mighty good to me,
    Yet here's the end of the trail;
    24 lines, 1 comment
  • Vanity
    My tangoing seemed to delight her;
    With me it was love at first sight.
    24 lines, 1 comment
  • The Last Supper
    Marie Vaux of the Painted Lips,
    And the mouth so mocking gay,
    30 lines, 1 comment
  • Wrestling Match
    What guts he had, the Dago lad
    Who fought that Frenchman grim with guile;
    56 lines, 2 comments
  • The Living Dead
    Since I have come to years sedate
    I see with more and more acumen
    40 lines, 1 comment
  • Village Virtue
    Jenny was my first sweetheart;
    Poor lass! she was none too smart.
    40 lines, 3 comments
  • The Locket
    From out her shabby rain-coat pocket
    The little Jew girl in the train
    30 lines, 1 comment
  • Window Shopper
    I stood before a candy shop
    Which with a Christmas radiance shone;
    42 lines, 1 comment
  • The Mystery Of Mister Smith
    For supper we had curried tripe.
    I washed the dishes, wound the clock;
    60 lines, 1 comment
  • Trixie
    Dogs have a sense beyond our ken -
    At least my little Trixie had:
    32 lines, 2 comments
  • The Ordinary Man
    If you and I should chance to meet,
    I guess you wouldn't care;
    24 lines, 8 comments
  • Village Don Juan
    Lord, I'm grey, my face is run,
    But by old Harry, I've had my fun;
    30 lines, 1 comment
  • The Three Bares
    Ma tried to wash her garden slacks but couldn't get 'em clean
    And so she thought she'd soak 'em in a bucket o' benzine.
    50 lines, 12 comments
  • Wallflower
    Till midnight her needle she plied
    To finish her pretty pink dress;
    64 lines, 1 comment
  • The Tunnel
    Toil's a tunnel, there's no way out
    For fellows, the like o' me;
    24 lines, 1 comment
  • Why?
    He was our leader and our guide;
    He was our saviour and our star.
    20 lines, 1 comment
  • The Undying
    She was so wonderful I wondered
    If wedding me she had not blundered;
    30 lines, 1 comment
  • Worms
    Worms finer for fishing you couldn't be wishing;
    I delved them dismayed from the velvety sod;
    38 lines, 2 comments
  • The Yukoner
    He burned a hole in frozen muck,
    He pierced the icy mould,
    12 lines, 1 comment
  • Your Poem
    My poem may be yours indeed
    In melody and tone,
    24 lines, 1 comment
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