Robert R. Bowie, Jr.

Complete List of Sonnets

City Snow

The Order in Things

Cigarettes

Stone Monuments

Belief

Late Life Lust

Sunday Night Dinner

Domestic Discord

Vacant Buildings

If They Define the Issue

Life is a Bic

High School Crew

Death Penalty Defendant

Esher

Father Daughter

Stone Buddah

Loss and Love

Sleeping Porch

Buddy Reports

Spotlighters

Airport Conversion

San Jose Belize

What is On

Sunday Accidentally Spent

On the Beach Too Long

Parking Garage

Present Creation

I could Justify Anything

Predawn Swim

Circe Laughing

Lessons from Prior Addictions

How Much I Love You

Party in my Head

Iris Versicolor

Summer Thunder Storms

Gettysburg

Tikal With Alice

213 West Lanvale Street

The Heron

The First Spring

My Father

Great Teachers

Marathon Man

Lust and Love

Past Girlfriends

My Love

Janitor in the Classroom

The Poet's Job

Santa

Blue Hole in Belize

Walking to Work

The Fireplace

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Past Girlfriends

Was it the loss of accidental love
Or real love and an accidental loss,
Both, or maybe neither of the above?
No matter, it ended, despite some cost.

Past girl friends are friends a lucky man will have
After mathematical random greetings
In a living generation that laughs
At any thought of predestined meetings.

They have families and their children
And they love their husbands so very much
But they are kind enough to meet you when
You come into town 'n ask them out to lunch.

God bless them all. They've done what really counts.
They've forgiven you completely, at least once.