Best Auguries Poems

The Auguries of  Mary Magdalene 
David J Walker

I saw Mary Magdalene 
Sitting on the stone bench 
Near your grave
Was she here for you
Was she...

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“Robin Redbreast in a cage,”
So sweet this line from a bygone age!
 But now ‘tis not the heavens that rage;
‘tis Raging Ram who now holds...

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'Twas the time of Summer solstice, they wed
Verdant leaves clung to trees; the month was June
Whispered troths of love, sacred vows were said
'fore fauna, rising...

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Are they mere grains of sand spewed by
the waves of the seas or are they
stars of the heavens washed ashore?


(Written in reference to William Blake's...

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WINTER JOURNEY’S END

Their calculations must have been at fault
Their instruments in need to calibrate
That wandering star’s location in the vault
Had seemed a compass true, inviolate

The...

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sight... 
a prophet's mark unsheathed
radiant, quell the shadow's scream
her lips were never meant for me
in auguries 
... blood uncharted

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The Unsupervised Stop Sign 10-26-23
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The Unsupervised Stop Sign

STOP!
Red lights flash crimson warnings
As arias of bloodred omens swirl about
My heedless headstrong rush past clanging signs
Into a...

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When spring dies shall the valley shines,
And by the light of night quivering heart away,
Yet through beauty morning confines,
Till that ripe in please, so a...

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When at a festive  dance we met
In gold were those  dear moments set.
We synchronised so sweetly
Without any  gaucherie.
The hours like  fleeting...

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Embark on a journey to the world within,
Where you are the garden, the desert, and the ocean's kin.
Light the torch, brave the Stygian Himalayas' daunting...

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Oh! Patience, My Love.


Have hit both my eyes an unknown storm --
the undoer of my marry Spring,
is beneath my brow a gushing form,
does a drench'd...

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Deep poetry has its own reality
Instrumental in setting the mind free
From the confinement of this mundane world
Transporting us to wondrous realms untold 

It is manifested...

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A distant dampness wrings the air.
A weight most profound presses chest
as indrawn breath holds silent;
in the stonehedge of overwhelming gloom.
So, the mighty have fallen 
auguries...

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Part 17

a kitchen drawer filled with throwaway lines
taped across the raw spots
itching festering inquiries eh inspector
asking the unavoidable
if we know how we got here
there's a...

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The rainy day turned sunny;
We spent it with some friends.
It's sometimes strange and funny
What the forecaster portends.

For we expected weather
Filled with cloudiness and wet
And though...

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