Reunion
With Motown hired to cater soul--
innocents again, we toast the years
friends and family confirmed
yet so many long gone.
Little Denny on his motorcycle
Richard gone Hollywood, Sully dead in Vietnam
Randy with a penchant for armed robbery
Corley as fine a sprinter as ever was
and Jimmie who couldn’t climb out of the bottle.
Terry and Jane, guileless and sweet
gone 20 years, Christy, Kaye, and Pam
remembered in the photo-op of high heeled legend.
Mystery a victim
flash careworn, speed before wisdom
chivalry 30 years forlorn.
Talents buried in flowerpots
mortgages in a gated homily of days.
Before the news; memories of Ricky throwing the deep ball
his last play fading to gray
our doubts wandering, in halos of drunkenness.
Mr. Melton is a graduate of The American University and Georgia Tech. His poetry has appeared in Amethyst, Agape Review, Big City Lit, Blue Collar Review, Confrontation, Compass Rose, Deep Overstock, The Galway Review, The Lyric, Kansas Quarterly, The Miscellany, Mississippi Review, Monterrey Poetry Review, Pure Slush, WayWords and others. He resides in Bluffton, SC (USA).
With Motown hired to cater soul--
innocents again, we toast the years
friends and family confirmed
yet so many long gone.
Little Denny on his motorcycle
Richard gone Hollywood, Sully dead in Vietnam
Randy with a penchant for armed robbery
Corley as fine a sprinter as ever was
and Jimmie who couldn’t climb out of the bottle.
Terry and Jane, guileless and sweet
gone 20 years, Christy, Kaye, and Pam
remembered in the photo-op of high heeled legend.
Mystery a victim
flash careworn, speed before wisdom
chivalry 30 years forlorn.
Talents buried in flowerpots
mortgages in a gated homily of days.
Before the news; memories of Ricky throwing the deep ball
his last play fading to gray
our doubts wandering, in halos of drunkenness.
Mr. Melton is a graduate of The American University and Georgia Tech. His poetry has appeared in Amethyst, Agape Review, Big City Lit, Blue Collar Review, Confrontation, Compass Rose, Deep Overstock, The Galway Review, The Lyric, Kansas Quarterly, The Miscellany, Mississippi Review, Monterrey Poetry Review, Pure Slush, WayWords and others. He resides in Bluffton, SC (USA).
