Best Denizen Poems

Borrowed Words of a Denizen Soul
David J Walker

I admit to the
Plagiarism of the language 
I am still learning to use
Day by day by day

So often the meanings mangled
So often the thoughts tangled
In the confusion of emotions 
Seeking the freedom of expression
From the lips of a...

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Unable to escape my fate,
alas I am a denizen of the night.
As darkness descends my adventures begin.
Such freedom in soaring flight, 
a freedom that humanity will never experience,
exhilaration beyond measure.

Under the magic of the midnight moon
I live my life.
Skimming ponds and lakes,
scooping up water, so...

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Neither encumbered with
     material trappings, nor money,
(neither of which I miss)
mine existence approxi-
     moxy mates (to me),
     the state of psychic,
     intrinsic, and bucolic bliss
though far removed

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Danke Bitte und Mehr
David J Walker

It was a land of foreign thought
And I was the denizen drifter
In uniform that hid my ignorance 
and poverty
In an OD Green costume that was
Barely me 
	Rarely me on weekends

One who could pass for a different class
Of vagabond wandering across...

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Sing us a song oh giant of the deep,
an ancient refrain to hear in our sleep,
let no man silence you and your kin,
if contemplated would be a sin.
Across the oceans of our world,
we hear your song till tears explode.
Catching our emotions filling us with joy,
uplift...

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