I always enjoy your magazine, especially the poems, pictures of nature, and towns of Newfoundland. After my retirement I started teaching music and writing poems and rhymes of my life experience. I have published three books, and others not published. Enclosed you will find four copies from my second book. I hope one meets the Downhome enjoyment and pleasure for publication.

Looking Back Over the Slate

Do you remember
The garments of yesteryear
When we lived in poorer times?
We seemed to walk as one,
Yet seldom had we worn new clothes;
It was mostly made over,
Not much new under the sun;
To curb our hand-me-down habits.

Old people and young –
Working with torn and bleached garments;
Shrunken pants and torn jerseys-
Happy smiles upon their faces.

People didn’t care about styles –
Old habits always insisted;
Where are the pants I used to wear –
When I was digging ditches?
Where is the shirt I used to wear –
With the rip all down the back?
My boots all full of tar,
I wore while tarring the shack.
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