Best Lexicon Poems

My Mother taught me
how to see through language, 
paper was rare, iron ink wasn't free
so she sold some jewelry for porcelain lettering, 
and we clapped and sang the alphabet into life
our life, our joy, our phonetic rhapsody,
the consonants kicked and the syllables scrambled
a speedy scrimmage...

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This poem may get into trouble,
The world wants identity double.
Attempting to culture commonality,
The world champions individuality.

Theft of language has become all too common,
Yesterday’s use today identifies one a strawman.
Definitions change, words take on other meaning,
Often toward groups one way leaning.
 
At our language different groups...

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Put on word welfare by the poet gods
They've rationed my "Inspired Insanity"
No one could ever calculate the odds
This blatant act of inhumanity

No longer can I find words to describe
Blue eyes that generate a winning smile
Condemned, left with my profane diatribe
And sentenced as a poet with...

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With the glut of sounds fixed within the book of expressions
I cause the dearth in mine carve ‘pon slip for the eager to ponder
A poet compelled yet tactful with scribe as a view thru scrim...

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I can’t believe it’s weekend already,
the busy week has hardly been noticed
as if it were like yesterday when,
I started tidying up my room upstairs.

  Other commitments rolled in on weekdays;
  pastoral ministry, running some errands,
  homebound visits, writing and reading,
spiced up the...

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I asked
what do you do for a living
and there was silence
I asked again 
socially
just to fill the empty spaces
this time to find a silence
before he said 
*********** with a pause
child ***********
do you mind.

Once painting a house
in trade for a much appreciated car
I pulled a bed...

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Have you seen what is coming to our lives?
A veritable cornucopia 
of delights
   Angels of all kinds
   Kings 
   Queens
Dancers, acrobats, performers
    If life asks you to be happy
    then be happy!
A lexicon...

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"You must increase your lexicon"-
I told my wife. She answered-"Yes!"
And soon she  added a silicon,
To her enormous breasts....

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I make myself 
                probing being
                        ...

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Words have shallow meanings
Skimmed from the alien pool
Where aliens keep spitt of tongue
These borrowed syllables are not of my tongue
The taste was chewed from them long ago
So yearning to recover my voice
In words ancient as Methusalah
And sacred before thee conquistadores came
Must soak them in old...

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Come sit with me
As muse moves writes,
Truth and beauty
Frame words I cite.


Amuse my mind
As heart fronts feel,
Abide deep finds
As words can heal.


Come let me know
A certain way,
Cast and face show
Poise in fond play.


A touch sums lot
In succinct proof,
Feel flavours thought
In plain old truth.


Come to my...

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Book of Breathings
David J Walker

Cruel clock
Supernatural sail
      A false friend 
      in the wind
      blending in 
To a breeze 
at the speed  
Of a whirlwind 

Tell me again 
about...

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