High School Reunions - Atlantic City High School, class of 1971

I may not desire
To live in the past
But high school for some
Was really a blast

High School sweethearts
The prom King and Queen
The class President
Who was squeaky clean

Sorority girls
How mean they could be
If you got to know them
You would agree

First in our class
Or a football star
The lucky ones
Had their own car

The popular kids
Hung out all the time
This social ladder
Was hard to climb

Both riot and snow days
We got off from school
Police in our building
Prevented a dual

A college degree
Was ours to pursue
Going into the service
Was an option  too

How many students
Would move far away
And how many beach bums
Would never stray

Those high school years
Have long gone away
But high school reunions
Will be here to stay

Randee Saber 7/31/2013

Comment:  My high school days were during Martin Luther King's assassination. These were very turbulent times and there was rioting in our school. The racial divide in Atlantic City High School was quite apparent and as such, there was a lot of tension.  Most of the white students came from middle class families that lived downbeach in Ventnor and Margate. We never had black students in my elementary or Junior High school. Though I was initially afraid of this integration, the majority of whites and blacks did not mingle. Also, there was quite a change from a strict dress code during our first couple of years to wearing jeans our senior year. I met my husband, ACHS class of '65 just six months after I graduated from ACHS in 1971 and we've been married 40 years.

His Royal Highness

A Royal Family member
A cherished infant son
All eyes are now upon you
Your life has just begun

The newest Royal Highness

Prince George, your given name
Just like your great, great grandpa
Whose first name was the same

You’re from The House of Windsor

A British dynasty
And in line for the throne
Your place is number three

By, Randee Saber  7/26/13

A monster in your house

A monster’s in your house

But do you even care
That he is really troubled
Or are you unaware

An arsenal of guns
Eventually he’ll use
A semiautomatic
A gun that he will choose

Killing high school classmates

An outcast that he was
He killed those little children
No reason just because                

So parents I implore you

Beware this monster son

Get rid of all your weapons

Or trouble has just begun

By, Randee Saber 2/2/2013

 

 

The one that got away

 The one that got away

I was swimming around

In search of a fish
I’d swallow it whole
No need for a dish

Then all of the sudden

So close to me
Was a tasty treat
Dangling in the sea

It was not a real fish

It was actually bait
With a long sharp hook
Unaware of my fate

With a hook in my mouth

I was in lots of pain
But I thrashed around
No time to complain

I was pulled and lifted

Out of the sea
My hook was removed
By a boy who was three

But then I was dropped

Back into the sea
By this same little boy
Cause I’m real slippery

My mouth is still sore

From that piercing hook
So next time I eat
I will carefully look

By, Randee Saber 12/12/12

 

 

 

Different shapes for different states

The shape of a state
A small or large size
Who was in charge
How was this devised

Long and narrow

And some that are square
Plus one that’s so small
It doesn’t seem fair

The Lone Star state

Takes up much space
It can take a whole day
Driving out of that place

States with panhandles

I can think of two
A neighboring state
They did squeeze through

On our license plates
Different slogans appear
Like the Lone Star State
On the front and the rear

By, Randee Saber 10/16/2012

The Great Debate

The Great Debate

 

The great debate
Watch it and see
The promises made
To you and to me

Questions are asked
A full array
But who’s in the lead
Can vary each day

Lengthy answers

While running this race
The 6^th of November
The voters they’ll face

By, Randee Saber  10/4/2012

 

Enough is enough

Enough is enough

 When people get killed

In  war zone space
There are also those shot
At an innocent place

They went to a movie

And were anxious to see
A midnight showing
Stated on the marquee

A night out with friends

With laughter and fun
Some paid with their lives
When the end wasn’t done

Enough is enough

This shooting must stop
At restaurants and schools                                                                          
And stores where we shop

 

By, Randee Saber  9/15/2012                    

 

On July 20, 2012, a mass shooting occurred at a Century movie theater in Aurora, Colorado, during a midnight screening of the film The Dark Knight Rises. A gunman, dressed in tactical clothing, set off tear gas grenades and shot into the audience with multiple firearms, killing 12 people and injuring 58 others, the highest number of casualties in an American mass shooting. The sole suspect is James Eagan Holmes, who was arrested outside the cinema minutes later.