Soldier Body Poems

Still wrestling with impasse to contentment

Dispense sing with fidelity blithely agog
just me and mine dark shadow 
slinking along outer limits of 
the edge of night...

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I was smote by words
As a soldier with bullets
‘Til I harnessed their power
And they slight retreated lest
   I would fire back

Then they came...

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A pendulum swings 
Right, left, right, left
A bomb flies out and there is no life left to detect

A pendulum swings 
Left, right, left, right 
A...

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Seven Soldiers Sought Sanctuary

From Frazzled, Frozen Feet

Worn, Weary, Walked Westward

Toting Tattered, Torn Torso

Revered Rifleman's Riddled Remains

Bravely Blocked Bullet's Barrage

Self Sacrifice Saved Seven...

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This,
This is who I am.
A soldier at heart, a warrior Queen.
A gentle
But strong
Soul just beneath.
Bruised and bloodied
Back from the war-
But you’ll never see me dying...

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I breathe fire. 
I'll turn you to stone with my stare,
And I'll collect you like 
I've collected the others.
Line you up among the rest
Like a...

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When your money is gone.
Who will buy you groceries? 

When your hands don’t work. 
Who will be the braun? 

When your feet are sore from...

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Talk to Me Rosetted Body
David J Walker

The reminders 
Of adventures 
 
Worthy of immortal celebration
displayed in an inked 
Hieroglyphs parade

on all locations of 
the bodies...

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The folly of the fight


These four walls; such contemptible and wretched creatures-
mock me, taunt me, deride me as weak and worthless.

I am shackled to the...

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The soldier ant
The army ant
A society, a race
By touch, sense and smell
Each knowing it’s place
Organisation, comradeship
The serving of their queen
A living mass of tens of...

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To you of broken minds and broken souls, 
For whom do you bow?
Is it the sky’s fyre, who rises west of the east and sleeps...

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Like a character in a Dr Seuss book
I play the New Years “Push Me Pull You” game
Daily I stretch stubborn limbs
Into pretzel-like shapes 
Hoping to...

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(Against Marijuana)

*How many do you take a day?*
The journalist asked in a joking tone.

*Seventeen ni o*
The teenager replied.

Seventeen times he smoked that day.
A routine that...

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Smile
that dance with your lips
whether luscious or pin-stripe thing
glimmering like rubies or scales glazed by sunshine

smile
that dance on perched puffy cheeks
whether skin of cocoa freckles...

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In Flanders Fields

In Flanders fields the poppies grow;
Their roots reach down to twine amongst the bones,
The mouldering bones.

Each skull in grinning disbelief voices 
Its eternal...

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