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A collection of poems on aging, such as:I See Myself Becoming OldMy closet is full of suits I don't wear anymore.Nothing I need to wear them for.There are days when I stay in my pajamas till noon.I picture my heirs looking at my wardrobe one dayasking "Can you think of anyone who can use theseor should we give them to Goodwill?"Or, "Would you like this tie as a remembrance of Dad?"As I read the obits of the recently deceased,which I took to doing a few years ago,I compare their ages to mine.Then there's the arthritis in my hands and feet.My left foot aches when I walkand I suffered a rupture in a time-worn tendon not long ago.I have more trouble lifting things and getting around.Don't jump over puddles anymorefor fear of the damage I might do coming down.(No more kicking up heels for me.)What will it be next,the incipient cataracts?My hearing isn't what it used to be.I don't think I need a hearing aid yet,though my daughter disagrees.Or will it be something unforeseenlike that ill-fated tendon?I see myself becoming old,yet it's as if I were watching it happen to somebody else.

The Broken Guitar by Richard Greene is a collection of poems about war:MemorialReading the nameof a young man who died in warsaddens us.Yet more the names of thousandsengraved in granite, or marble,their parents' hopes and dreamsinterred in stone.All that remains are a few keepsakes,and memoriesof newborns, toddlers, vulnerable boys,youths becoming men,those now sad memories,and names carved in cold stone.Who wanted those wars?Their leaders of course,but all too often those same young men,and all too oftenthose who mourn for them.

A collection of autobiographical poems by Richard Greene.Richard Greene has been writing poetry intensively since he retired from a 38-year career in international development in the mid-1990s. A lawyer by training, he fell into his development career by accident when, after law school, though planning not to practice law but interested in international affairs, he accepted an unsolicited job offer from the U.S. Agency for International Development. After a few years in Washington (or Foggy Bottom, as the location of the U.S. foreign policy establishment is known), he was assigned as legal advisor to the USAID mission in Laos and there discovered that the development business suited his interests and inclinations very well.Greene wrote poetry beginning in the 8th grade and continued through college where he studied with a Professor, Henry Rago, who later became editor of Poetry magazine, the leading U.S. poetry journal. However, he wrote few poems after law school as he became absorbed in international development, but turned back to poetry as he neared retirement.

Now revised and updated with new aphorisms!Reader beware: This book contains material that disparages cherished beliefs, opinions and institutions including political and religious ones. While some readers may find that material refreshingly irreverent, others may find it offensive. The aphorism quoted on the cover, Patriotism, piety and chastity are all much overrated virtues, offers a relatively mild example. Some of the aphorisms offer potentially even more offensive material, so proceed with caution.Here are a few examples of Mr. Greene's aphorisms:Sex wouldn't be nearly so interesting if it weren't so widely forbidden.The truly strong are those who aren't driven by the need to prove their strength.Lawyers, actors and politicians must fool others. In the process they often fool themselves.We tend to forget that not all mothers are saints, nor all soldiers heroes.The most important measure of civilization is compassion, not technology, culture, sophisticated institutions, power or the gross national product.

Paper Talks is the result of, originally, massive cases of boredom, written during classes we found less than thrilling. The Talks were written in 1983 and 1984 in our last two years of high school as we prepared for our tertiary admissions examinations. In our last three months of high school, when the pressure was beginning to get to us, we gathered as many Talks as we could find and compiled them into a book for our own pleasure. This is the result.

A collection of poems describing the exterior world, such as:Orinocos of the ImaginationI've never been to the Orinocoand have seen few photos of it,but I feel I know its sinuous lengths,winding between thick jungle walls,flashing silver in the sun,delicate waterfallsthreading from cloud-shrouded cliffs,dense foliageadorned with birds of kindergarten colorsand jaguars that merge into shadow,the insistent musicof bird cry and monkey chatter,dugouts and caimansscoring its sleek waters,those who people its valleygliding nearly nakedthrough twilight forests,dappled by the distant sun.I know these lush landscapesfrom my dreams.

A mondegreen is 'a misunderstood or misinterpreted word or phrase resulting from a mishearing of the lyrics of a song' (definition from Oxford Languages).If you read old books, you have probably come across pieces of poetry that feel like mondegreens-they seem familiar and as if you should know them but somehow you can't quite remember them. Mondegreen: Almost remembered poems is a small collection of such poems. All the poems are in the public domain and appeared on the blog, From Troubles of the World, between October 2011 and January 2012. To make searching for that elusive phrase easier, the collection includes indices of first lines, titles and poets.