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Thank You Walt Whitman

thank you Walt Whitman

oh you foolish ones 
bordering on change of life
standing still for a moment
before full manhood embraces

how brave and daring
strident, filled with never ending life;
brash colts with tricks and
shameless lures for pretty young things.

exquisite in your urges to hold on
keep childish freedom safe
tucked beneath a wishful heart
in that summer, that blissful summer

came a roar, a grinding metallic clack
shatters down the hills
with siren sounds heard only in melodious tones
by boys about to burst from youth

seasons change, our autumn
reaps in radiant red all of 
those peach-fuzzed near men
gone to strange places far from us

this fall harvest takes 
it never feeds but grief and loss 
as triangle folded flags fill arms
and blue black rifles air their song.

I still hear your laughter
full throated fiercely joyous
bite into winter wind
and echo down the canyon wall.

Copyright © | Year Posted 2017




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Date: 10/18/2017 2:23:00 PM
Rather sad and tragic...but beautifully written nevertheless. Walt would have approved, Patricia! My very warmest regards - in affection! :) john
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Patricia Cresswell
Date: 10/18/2017 3:09:00 PM
John was is such a waste of beautiful youth. Thank you.
Date: 10/18/2017 6:37:00 AM
A wonderful tribute Patricia, this is very well written..I like the seasons change stanza..
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Patricia Cresswell
Date: 10/18/2017 3:08:00 PM
Thank you Silent One.
Date: 10/17/2017 2:49:00 AM
O me! O Life! That was a wonderful tribute Patricia, soooooo well written, I am jealous (not really, just awed) Oh boy, you're an accomplished poet. Thank you :)
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Patricia Cresswell
Date: 10/17/2017 4:08:00 PM
I had read something written by Walt Whitman and it touched me very deeply and so I wrote this poem to thank him for awakening my mind. I know he is dead but I figure he can still read. Thank you Darren, for bring new things into my life,

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