7 Old Poems

Mother Nature’s Sweat

Everything gets soaked with Mother Nature’s sweat.

Sidewalks turn dark and cars turn shiny.

People turn grumpy 

People get depressed

People feel blue.

When the sky can’t be blue, the people all take over.

Trees get happy

Flowers stand tall

Lakes all wave.

When the rain blows down,

rainbows appear.

Reese Molby

Sept. 20th, 2023

The Blast

A firework like a burst of love.

Others sit and watch

While you’re both up above.

Noticeable and bright in the beginning. That, everyone

can see. 

The blast - a tale as old as time 

in an hourglass.

Blue, white, and purple begin to fade

while love still remains.

As the ashes flutter through the sky like a winter wonderland.

Reese Molby

Sept. 20th, 2023

Awaken

You’re at your school walking through the halls

You see all your friends. And in one minute

You’re in the funeral home staring at the stones.

You see your last name after names you haven’t heard of.

Cause they left years ago.

One minute goes by and you’re in the kitchen

You see a meal ready but there’s no one to sit with.

Then a bit later you’re at a place you don’t know.

You see everything and feel you recognize it.

But you don’t.

Then you wake up and forget all of it.

You were asleep, but not in a dream.

Reese Molby

Sept. 20th, 2023

Blue Corvet

I can’t help but bite my nails whenever she’s around

And I can’t help but laugh at the things she says. 

All the blonde haired girls here would love to be just like her, just like 

All the jet black haired girls used to long after Betty Page.

I wonder if she knows how the 

Shadows all grow

When she isn’t around, even when she knows she should be. 

I wonder when I’ll see her again maybe driving 

In her Blue Corvette

She told me her father bought brand new back in ‘68.

It smelled of cigarettes

From her, not from me.

I always tried to tell her no but she insisted with greed

for just one more.

Reese Molby

Sept. 20th, 2023

A Letter For You

Johnny’s got a brand new girlfriend

I don’t know how he’s going to decide to spend his money anymore.

He’s got slot machines to play and now a girl to tend to.

I mentioned last time how he’s gotten worse.

Betting high and spending all his purse.

He invited me too,

but I can’t stand Amy when she’s not on her pills. 

Johnny takes them so he won’t think about his bills.

He blows off his problems like he blows his cash. 

He’s playing hard but living fast. 

Never wins more than enough

so he can only buy his drinks that night.

He says what his mama doesn’t know won’t hurt her

and drinks his cares away but 

Well, now you know.

Reese Molby

Sept. 20th, 2023

Boring Lights

Boring lights and music too loud for

you to hear a word it says.

And you may as well not speak, you wouldn’t hear other people either.

People sweat and jump

And they call it a dance.

A button-ups grey from sweat.

He lost his tie earlier that night and has got three buttons down

And his collar up loose.

Afterwards the fun began

Sitting side by side.

Throwing jokes across the bar

The smell of smoke came from afar.

Laid our heads down because it’s past four

But going home wasn’t any fun.

Never again can that night happen 

Everyones gone away.

Reese Molby

Sept. 20th, 2023

Sarah

We just heard that Sarah’s sick

but sleep and pills can’t cure it.

Only a little bit of luck and a whole lot of money.

We went to visit yesterday

She in a hospital two towns away because

Danny said that ones better.

I don’t get it and God won’t explain

But I’m waiting for an answer as I pray and pray.

I hope her nurse is nice at least.

Reese Molby

Sept. 20th, 2023