The Rhyme in the Air

a poem in praise of lingering nostalgia

You can call it all

Just nostalgia

If you so care

But with both of us

Now being here

There's no way my mind

Can help but dare

Take some trips back there

Yes, just nostalgia

Is both true and fair

But for quite a time

In a time we shared

You were all of

The rhyme in the air

Jim Lonsdale Poetry 2026

Author's Note

Just a wandering mind's night-write

Reviews

[Michael Sun Bear]

Wow! I just wrote and posted a poem about memories of long ago shared with my first love and then I turned to reading and there was your great poem about nostalgia. I feel like stealing your last two lines but I won’t. Robin was my rhyme, for sure.

[Desert Knave]

Thanks so much. Just ran into someone I used to have a crush on when I was young, and decided to run with it (Yeah, the last pair of lines was kind of the starting point for this write). ~Jim