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The Tender Lights of Yesteryear…

by J. Allen Wilson — Read all 1,629 poems by J. Allen Wilson

Sunday, September 21, 2025


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 The Tender Lights of Yesteryear…


 

I see the tender lights of yesteryear.

I dance beneath the stars at night.

I smile, I laugh and remember days without fear.

 

Oh, what youth on me did that time bestow.

Warm and gentle were those days 

where moonbeams shone on fields below.

 

I so long now for childhoods forever days.

Simple and easy, a time without worry or pain.

 

Yet it seems that I but briefly closed my eyes.

Alas opening them to this very day.

They grow heavy now and it’s getting harder to see.

If, if only for a moment I could once again feel the

Gentle warmth of the tender lights of yesterday.

J. Allen Wilson (c)
9/21/25 



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Reviewed on November 2, 2025
I'm with you J. Allen. I miss being young. Your poem is lovely. I'm so glad you are back.

Reviewed by Ronald Hull
Reviewed on September 22, 2025
A wistful piece of nostalgia all of us yearn for as we get to the age where we could no longer do so easily what we did then.

So good to see you posting again. And your words are ringing true to me as I think often about all those things I did so easily and happened at lightning speed at that time, now slowed down greatly.

Ron


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