Best Appointments Poems

Reminders we are not finite
Lest we should forget
Time tends to stop and hover
Undetectable
In a slow motion whirl
Caught in an endless loop
Like a 45 record that...

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In the intimate interlace of chance and fate, in the ultimate interplay of time and place, and with the consummate checkmate of my human dignity,...

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I've grown a bit slower, I've grown a bit fatter,
  my mission each hour: relieving my bladder.
When I was a youngster, I had no...

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Another One Down
And another one bites the dust. 

Marriage. 
My friend, my neighbor, the lady next door, 
Rampant miscalculations of being too nice, 
two people...

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A nubile young vicar named Jude
Was seen swimming, totally nude
The bishop said WOW
Just look at you now
Your assets - they need to be viewed!

Fiction write!

07-05-17

Invited...

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a lonely place.
It's nothing to do with that person
who asked how are you? this morning.
It's to do with staring through
fear-frosted windows
as snow sugar-sifts the street,
watching...

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We have our routine to perfection
Our way of saying I love you and 
Wouldn’t want to live without you
We’re a strong solid team you and...

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Poor Santa Claus encountered a delay
          There was thick fog that made him lose his way
...

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I want to live
today
into my being
I want to love
this hour
into fullness
I want to write
this moment
into eternity

Let me live
let me love
let me write

don't burden me
with responsibilities
with...

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Like a warm cotton bud used to give inner ears a clean
there is something comforting about routine.
Knowing where you stand and the order of play,
knowing...

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With not a single hobby, 
and precious few friends, 
Time has too much time on its hands. 

For its appointments it arrives early,
always much too...

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Got my brand-new calendar;
It’s filled with empty squares.
With entries made, there’s not a chance
I’ll be caught unawares.

I mark down all important dates
So I can send...

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Daybreak Words Upon the Morning
David J Walker

Awaiting words
That will burst upon the day 
Suffused in first light before the sun
Reveals itself 

Notice the clouds clinging...

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You gave me magical words this morning.
I should have stopped everything I was doing – 
to go write them down.

Words are precious fleeting, living things
And...

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She was lovely, a beautiful kind soul, giving, loving, generous, but also apologetic for being alive.
Her light gray eyes danced and pranced, and her laugh...

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