Best Walt Poems

Walt made Mickey a mascot of fantasy.
They grew together building a legacy.
According to his lovely wife,
They mirrored each other's personality of life....

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A short while back when Shayla was three,                     Written just for Barbara's Contest.
I took my granchild's child to the Zoo with me.

She sat in he...

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I Love the Once Upon a Times
and missed the Happy ever Afters...

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The answer has been my motivation,
keeping me awake through the night,
keeping me in love with my passion,
the language of my forefathers,
The answer has been given, inspiring
those before and after his own words,
Yet it rests clear as day in one
of Uncle Walt's most prized pieces,

The answer...

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* There is one person I would bring back in a heartbeat, and that's my favorite human being of all-time, Walt Whitman - he literally changed my life with his poetry, and brought true beauty and joy to my life. Never underestimate the power of...

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The Journeyman, Walt Whitman


Acrid smoke drifts over this lifeless battlefield…
Forlorn cries escape from his tattered journal, bound in silence…
From above, Vultures circle lazily, stung from below, the burning
Eyes of the gray-bearded one,  give them pause…
Off in the distance, cannons boom, as sons and brothers...

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Reach into my depths, I could,
pulling out pieces of fallen idols,
From contemporary to eccentric,
From cynics to realists, to romantics,
searching deeply to find my voice,
If indeed, I have acquired such a tone
as those who inspire my very thoughts,
Thoreau, Coleridge, Crane, Byron, Poe,
Frost, Hayden, Hughes, and Gibran,

Pertinent...

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There once was a man named Walt
Who was more than worth his salt
But when trouble came
He got all the blame
Even though he was not at fault...

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I remember the exclusive Walt Disney days,
We used to travel there with our parents.

Stayed at a beautiful timeshare Limetree, Sarasota.
Then we visited the Walt Disney kingdom.

Father Dr. Wolf would drive us there,
We bought tickets for Walt Disney world.

Our parents were just the nicest parents you...

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Out of the mouse hole of my childhood,
made your first impression
on this sprouting brain,
enticed by the endless wonder
and entranced by the majestic splendor
of your colored two dimensional tales
that filled this void of a heart,
endings carved out 
of the most intricate dreams;
splendid beauty never gazed once...

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Disney
Mickey Mouse
Little Mermaid
Huey, Dewey, Louie
Disney

Disney
Donald Duck
Goofy Pluto
My favorite is Mulan
Disney

Disney
Think Frozen
Elza, Olaf
Snow White, Cinderella
Disney!...

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He sat on this patch of turf,
and if not this exact place a piece of a place nearby.

Naturally, I try to feel his companionship.
Did he write a line of poetry on this small island
or was he simply being Walt Whitman,
honored guest,
a person he hardly recognized...

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The sharing of a meal can be quite a romantic gesture
of course, when one is starving it may be a survival instinct...
a kiss while sharing a plate of spaghetti - is doggone great!


For "Sijo Kisses" contest sponsored by Tracie ~*~ Indigo Dreamweaver....

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Poetic
Travels
Told...

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*** In Simple Lines Poeetry Comes ***

(“You must habit yourself to the dazzle of the light and of every moment of your life…”      Walt Whit an,  “Leaves of Grass”)

   My lines — 
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