Coming Back
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Thoughts keep coming back
of late afternoons
with the dark wings
of currawongs weaving
pathways through the high
branches leaving long threads
of song draped across trees -
the drifting ...
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Categories:
breathings, memory, time, winter,
Form: Free verse
Odes of a Shattered Soul
...You said:
You look like you've been hurt before,
Drowned before you could reach the shore.
I replied:
My father was my first heartbreak,
My uncle was my second,
I was neglected and never reck...
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Categories:
breathings, angst, betrayal, depression, emotions,
Form: Free verse
Ending A Perfect Night
...A perfect night ending.
After passion peaks,
our quivering bodies,
dissolved in fiery heat.
Wrapped in a nightly cocoon to sleep.
Fragrance dew lingers,
entwined in dampened sheets,
as two...
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Categories:
breathings, beautiful, love hurts, passion,
Form: Rhyme
Morning Coffee In Angie's Cafe
...Warm air eases a pleasant drift
upon the morning over coffee
and freshly baked bread,
the far off sound
of the sea and birds bridging
distance to here in the soft
hum of Angie's Cafe.
Eve...
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Categories:
breathings, joy, morning, time,
Form: Free verse
Harmony
...“Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.”
~ William Wordsworth
What a peaceful sense of harmony I would feel
if the greatest m...
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Categories:
breathings, lost love,
Form: Rhyme
An Aria At Sunset
...Now that you are here,
take in the sunset
and the flare of wings
catching gold
in sweeping turns down
to water creased with waves
and the foam wind blown
to shore. And here,
the vision of her...
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Categories:
breathings, sunset,
Form: Free verse
Life
...In life, there are moments when you miss someone so much
that you would only fulfill your dreams by
holding that person tight in your arms.
When the door of happiness is closed, another one opens,...
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Categories:
breathings, confidence,
Form: Free verse
Remembering Dreams
...Remembering Dreams
David J Walker
Here the breathings
In deep wood
Here the hearings
If I could
Remember meanings
Bad or good
Visions often
Misunderstood
I dream of you
My dea...
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Categories:
breathings, love,
Form: Rhyme
Book of Breathings
...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
ab...
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Categories:
breathings, allegory,
Form: Free verse
Hymns To Re the Sun God Breathings
...Hymns to Re the Sun God Breathings
Someone has to do it
Let the meaningless clichés begin
No one has to do wot’s not been inspired
Re, the Sun God couldn’t Sing and
Therefore could not be h...
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Categories:
breathings, allegory,
Form: Free verse
While Writing Up a Poem
...When a poet is going to write up a poem
Somehow alike a fish is going to take a breath
Breathings took with strength generate ripples
While slight breathings would only whisp gas
Someone migh...
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Categories:
breathings, extended metaphor, fish, inspiration,
Form: Verse
Disarray of Time
...Within my mind are dusty cobwebs
where drafty breathings edge the corners of remembering
as they hold in a picture stilled that looms,
unchanged but not for lack of a broom;
school books, pad...
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Categories:
breathings, appreciation, grandmother, memory,
Form: Rhyme
Midnight Appraisals
...Midnight Appraisals
The overhead street lamp was our only illumination,
As night shielded our concealed touchings within the moment,
Yet we saw light in the eyes of the stars as they watched us...
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Categories:
breathings, girlfriend, love,
Form: Free verse
Behind Organic Curtains
...Beneath thoughts with feelings
uniting and dispersing,
Within Earth's human constitutions,
democratic and win/lose cynical,
or even lose/lose nihilistic,
We each breathe in encultured nutrit...
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Categories:
breathings, health, integrity, peace, psychological,
Form: Political Verse
A Soul With Scars
...A SOUL WITH SCARS ....
I'm a soul with thousands of scars..
each scar narrates a story ,a story, that tells "I'm still alive "...
a story that reminds me of a scar smeared past ...
a stor...
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Categories:
breathings, absence, anxiety, betrayal, break
Form: I do not know?
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