by Paul Mayes Jamar

With nothing new under the sun,
I know those of yesteryear will come,
and be a part of Heaven’s great fun
with much in common with me, by gum.

Those who I see in pictures of old,
I will get to know intimately,
their dreams, dislikes, they share so bold,
we will compare our lives sincerely.

Oh, to know what makes them tick,
only a face from a childhood memory,
my great, and grandparents’ tricks
I learn, and what life was like in harmony.

For in a more innocent time, they were,
but they all have a thing in common,
we all believe in Jesus, we do concur,
hopefully one has been shot out of a cannon.

The stories we will tell will never fail
to put a smile on our faces and wonder
what if with them I lived, oh what a tail?
But then, we do, in Heaven’s great splendor.

Paul Mayes Jamar was born in Brownwood, Texas in March 1955. He spent most of his life in Texas, just within the last twenty years he moved to Missouri. He graduated from Angelo State University with a Bachelor of Arts Degree. Mr. Jamar was a third generation radio broadcaster owning several stations in the Austin, Texas area. He has written four books of Christian poetry. He hopes to get published soon. He has been published in Highland Park Poetry’s website with his poem, “Bluebonnet Sonnet,” and “Sunrise,” and in their book on Shoes, with His poem, “Shoe Holes.” Also, soon to be in Central Texas Writers Society’s Anthology on Nature with his poem, “The Big Red Ant.” He has also published over twenty poems with Agape Review. Mr. Jamar lives with his wife Cynthia Jamar, and has three children living elsewhere.