Sister Allegory Poems

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A finger tapping on a thigh,
An overt look, a smile, a nod, a sigh:
A wistful morning bus ride, past the Y...

When did our names melt...

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The sun was setting, with a beautiful color leaving in the Sky. We were heading to Edinburg. Our van stopped on the way, as that...

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After papa succumbed
to congestive heart failure
October 7th, 2020 yours truly
neglected fulfilling promised score.

I did shirk maintaining bond
with youngest sister
who when a boy especially fond
regarding said...

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With me, during my high-school-days, studied a little boy, 
His father was a doctor. This filled him with immense joy;
At his constant demand, once to...

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“My Sister”
       (for Hilde Weisert,
           and her daughter)

My sister’s...

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I
She's now almost four months old
He is at least four months older
She is half-sister, sharing a mother
So far, she, Kaalnek, somewhat bolder
Than her half-brother, somewhat...

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Sinister Sinner Who Became a Minister

wore big blister
was sinister minister
became senator

a legal tender
minister an offender
had been big spender

minister spinster
with a good looking sister
hard to resist...

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The Lonely Numbers Game
David J Walker

One has paper 	
		One has pen
One has thoughts of what the color
Of love might have been 

One is the mother
		The...

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man, man

you search yourself and you search yourself for life
the same as when macaca is searching for lice:

- with the monkey sister you nibble on...

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Its Sunday
By David J Walker

It’s Sunday and my uncle smells of 
Cheap Avon colon that comes in a 
Smoked glass automobile bottle
Bought from his sister-in-law

He...

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How Winter Goes
David J Walker

This is how the winter goes

North wind blows
Runny nose
Nothing grows
Highs are lows

While 

The old folks 
Endlessly 
double-bundle
fighting off the cold

swearing next...

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Distant Cousins
David J Walker

You may not remember 
the dinosaurs 

Roaming our backyard
Jurassic park
Hiding in lilacs 

Crushing the petunias and 
Easting the tops off our trees

Mother,...

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Love and poetry, inseparable siamese sisters ever...

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Every other Friday afternoon before Bumblebee would leave on her special errand, her mother would open the old cedar trunk at the foot of her...

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