Poems By Jay Hatfield

    (Listed By Title)

  • A New Pair Of Shoes

  • All That Is

  • An Old Soldier's Ascent

  • And A Tie Always Goes To The Lady

  • At An Age

  • At Clancy's Bar (Ice The Jewels)

  • Bedtime

  • Bedtime (Version Two & Version Three)

  • Birds

  • Change of Colors

  • Class Reunion

  • Class Reunion (Version Two & Version Three)

  • Cocktail Party Degrees

  • Cold Wind

  • Daddy's Favorite Roosky

  • Daddy's Nap/Matthew's Tap

  • Dammed Mouth: Tongue Tied

  • Desperate Years

  • Dubya's Atlantic Lament

  • Every Spring

  • Find A New Home

  • Food Zoo

  • Forever Now

  • Freedom's Lark

  • Gentle Soul

  • Georgetown Dames

  • Girl We Once Knew Well

  • Goddess

  • Helpless

  • Her Secret Smile

  • Hog Heaven

  • Homeland (Merrimac 1958) , (Version Two) & (Version Three)

  • Hospice (Fully Blessed)

  • Hot Stove Winter Bliss (Wake Me When Baseball Is Back)

  • Hurt Your Friends

  • I Am Older Now

  • I can't pretend to love you

  • I Gave My Teacher A Wormy Apple

  • I Haven't Aged With Grace

  • If Looks Could Kill (The Two Year Old)

  • I'm The Happiest Henpecked Man In America

  • In Love

  • Jay Hatfield: Self-Portrait

  • Kisses To Clouds ~ Kisses To Clouds (Version Two) ~ Kisses To Clouds (Version Three)

  • Learn These Lies

  • Life's Little Pleasures

  • Line Of Least Resistance

  • Look Both Ways

  • Love Is For A Woman

  • Lucky Lady

  • Mask

  • Mea Culpa (This Time)

  • Midnight, Midnight

  • Missed Opportunity

  • Moissala Blues (My African Poem)

  • Mother (In Dementia)

  • My Barbara (Her Alzheimer's)

  • My Fiftieth Birthday (Taking Stock)

  • My Rear View Mirror & (Version Two)

  • My Sixtieth Birthday (Taking Stock Again)

  • New Orleans Disaster

  • No Hurry Anymore

  • No more news

  • Not In Mine

  • Oh, The Winter Bliss (Wake Me When Baseball Is Back) & (Version Two)

  • Old New England Saint

  • On Andrew Young

  • On Birthdays

  • On Compatibility

  • On Dating

  • On John Edwards (Candidate Kerry's Lament)

  • On Long Distance Romances

  • On The Rooskies

  • On Youthful Fathering

  • One Can't Be Wistful Here

  • One More Rotten Time

  • Only Dreaming

  • PCV

  • Pet Peeve

  • Pick Me Up!

  • Predator Etiquette

  • Price Too Dear

  • Princess

  • Prisoner Of Conscience

  • Promise

  • Refugee (And Soldiers Also Cry)

  • Relate To Me In Love

  • Retrospective Brilliance

  • Revival Song

  • Scrapbook

  • September Eleven

  • Shamed

  • Shadow Of Wood, Rope, And The Iron Hinge

  • Silence

  • Silk Girl (Yellow Fever)

  • Silver Ballerina

  • Situation Comedy

  • Song Of Waiting

  • Special Watch

  • Special Watch (Version Two)

  • Strange Lands (The Astoundment)

  • Stronger

  • Stronger (Version Two)

  • Sweet Suzy

  • The Ayatollah

  • The Baby Boomer Bastard

  • The Bureaucrat's Lament

  • The #NeverTrump Credo

  • The Candidate's Lament

  • The Changing Face Of Oppression

  • The City Slumbers

  • The Concession

  • The Devoted Man

  • The Electoral Majority

  • The Electoral Majority (Version 2)

  • The Even Steven

  • The Final Option

  • The Generals

  • The Hot Stove Disease

  • The Longing

  • The Most Important Little Girl

  • The Office Bore

  • The Passion

  • The Patient Man

  • The Peace Corps Credo

  • The Physician

  • The Physician (Version Two)

  • The SEC Credo

  • The Small Town Queen

  • The Truer Test

  • The Ugly Gal

  • The Vow

  • The Weaker Sex

  • Time

  • To Be Loved Again

  • To Israeli Prime Minister Begin

  • To The Red Sox Fan (1978)

  • To You Poor Late Sleepers

  • Toast To Transient Youth

  • Tony's Domestic Lament

  • Traveler

  • Traveler II

  • Two Scoops

  • Uvalde

  • Vengeance Of The Red Sox Fan (The Curse Reverse)

  • Wake Me When Baseball Is Back (Oh, The Winter Bliss) & (Versions Two & Three)

  • When The Girls Are Gone

  • Where Pigs Won't Crawl

  • Woman

  • (You Name It)

    Poems By Jay Hatfield

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