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Ode To Thy Circle

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How many ways doth thee see the three Camelot K-nights, be K-ings, create its tragedy drama ode? Where in we circle things that seldom, stay the same, often change in subtle ways, and then with gentrification - all hell brakes out.

How I wandered, in and out, the spokes of "The Circle" and will always; in my mind, take a spin around the Circle's A&W Root Beer stand.

Within this poem are many images of Tallmadge, Ohio; Tallmadge Circle, its spokes, Nottingham Dr., where I grew up on. Overdale Elementary, Garden St. Tallmadge Central High that moment, they announced that JFK was dead, all those things saved in memories, those things still there like a A&W Root Beer stand. But that is memory implanted, I will always remember being in Tallmadge. next door to Kent, where soon after being discharged. the Kent State Massacre happened. It seemed I was in Tallmadge going around circles, why did it happen?

Do we choose what words make up poets writers, or even Americans, all I know when I write - my soul heals.

Tallmadge High '66

Wednesday, September 26, 2018


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Ode To Thy Circle

 

Tis youth’s Camelot young Nottingham knight abode

Tis a lifelong journey alongside three K-ings

Thy child slayed thee big foot beside Garden Street Ode

Over Maryann to Overdale element school rings

Camelot young knight wrote an enlightened circle

HeArt dew write adrift circles rhyme counter clockwise

Oh child, your play on words knighted encirclements

Come yea to feel Akron Soap Box gallop mount cries

I am the Bard of Nottingham's Tallmadge Circle

I am a child riding merry go round circle

 

Three Knights, King Statured in Knighthood, two blood brothers

An other Dreamer, who did campion causes

Black and White screen TV’s scream police dog, shutters

Yea sees, America's hate and bigotry jaws 

Youth sees two sides within KKK lynching another

Heard the circle, Central Juniors tears weeping clause

Not young brother -, "Camelot President" ~ faux pas

Trice slain three K-ings Tallmadge dream go-round causeways

Why circle North Avenues, "President is dead."

Been around circle spokes, spoken words of Three Kings

 

THS Graduate Circle diploma, Uncle Sam waits

Tick tock Draft Air Force Vietnam grad enlistment

Nottingham father cried at Greyhound - bus awaits

Cleveland pricks, San Antonio humongous invest -

ment needles me here there; butt leaves one awaiting.

Do not lose soap. One learns polish circle treatment

Marching around circles forward backward - wasted

One lays down to be Nottingham Knight endorsement

The boy has evolved bound in word wise circled fates

That trails from terse circle spokes - verse enlightenment

 

Discharged, once again the Circle, beacons one Home

Three K-ings long gone, Camelot skeleton shattered

War wrought stateside instigated tempest Homepage

Where on my birthday they burned down reserve matter

Kent State burned, day timeframe waits soldier roaming

No riot gear, untrained - live ammunition splats

Rat a tap drip drop blood slain students be laid prone

Wonder The Circle, ask why - students dew smatters

Dye ink stains phantom depth, amid what war brings home

Terminated Veteran, dost yea words matter?

 

“The Circle” HeArt Of Ohio's Western Reserve

America's Creative Circle HeArtMosphe

Encircle universal understanding - serve

United States amid cohesive artmospheres

Things change; Tallmadge Super Chef - Taco Bell service

But miracles keep A&W root beer stands atmosphere

Hear yea - CIRCLE my HeArt - poetry must be served

"Thank you for your Service" of political spheres

Terminate the American MLK Nottingham Dream

New park beside thy old home, Be It Camelot.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Reviewed by Ronald Hull
Reviewed on September 26, 2018
You have incorporated a bit of your history into this insightful poem of how change has happened or not based on extremes in societal living. Ode to Nottingham, and to Camelot?

Ron


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