Childhood Splendor
Encouraged to the wayward advance of mongrel yelps
And snails beneath stones, the whooping will
Of smokey tongues and frog legs in dewy
Desires of childhood splendor.
The secret return of youthful glee in prisms of rainbow
Allure and diamond distress, in closed
Corridors of love and open gates born unto
The rust of hinges in
Disrepair.
RON KOPPELBERGER has written 90 books of poetry over the past several years and 16 novels. He has published 218 poems and 52 short stories in a variety of periodicals such as The Storyteller, Ceremony, Freshly Baked Fiction and Necrology Shorts. He is a member of The American Poet’s Society as well as The Isles Poetry Association.
