POETRY FORUM

Popsicle Kisses

by Johnny Olson on August 14, 2015 :: 1 comment

(illustrations by Eddie Medina)

A bubblegum song plays
On an oldies station
Carries him back
To more innocent days

Remembering playground
Games of tag, (you’re it)
Trying to steal kisses
From the raven haired girl
Who had popsicle
Flavored lips
And a voice that
Tasted like ice cream
To his still wet behind the ear drums

After school
He walked her home
And waited for the golden moment
To sneak a kiss
And taste her popsicle lips
Before the dinner bell rang
And sent him on his way

editors note:

Bring back those golden oldies. We miss that kiss, so sweet to repeat (Read another mad love poem, a sad love poem, on Johnny’s page – check it out.) – mh clay

Comments 1

Hem Raj Bastola
December 4, 2015 at 12:14 am

Nice one Johenny. Let the starter dinner begin from the kiss. So the love will go mad my friend.

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A bit about Johnny: Johnny Olson was born in Chicago, Illinois on a cold November day in 1970. He found his feet and cut his teeth in the diverse, blue-collared neighborhoods of his hometown. In 1988 he was reborn in California; where he found himself a new title: United States Marine. After surviving a brief, yet violent war (Desert Storm), he hung up his cammies and rifle to instead grab his pen and notepad where he found his passion for writing. In 1998 he found himself in Dallas, Texas, where what was supposed to be a brief stint in the South turned into a decade and a half…and counting.

In 1999, Johnny, with a couple of other mad cohorts, started Mad Swirl. This project has now evolved into a being all its' own. After wearing too many hats for too many years, he now only wears a few at Mad Swirl: chief editor, webmaster, and host at Mad Swirl's monthly Open Mic night.

Johnny’s work first appeared in print in 1996 in the now defunct Lip Magazine. Since then, his words and images have found their way onto a few online and printed zines thru the years. To name a few: Mad Swirl: Issues I-VI, Haggard and Halloo, 10k Poets, PAO Productions: The Open Mic Project.

PAO Productions Interviews: Johnny Olson

Interview by AngelHeart:
Featuring Johnny O

Interview by Tony R. Rodriguez:
The Johnny O Interview

P.A.O. Productions Open Mic Project:
Johnny O

Contact Johnny:
johnny@madswirl.com

Johnny's Website:
madswirl.com

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