The Dangers of Mankind is Man
...Mara’s hair colour touched by time, her voice hedged—struggling to find its way to me
She had once tried to kill herself.
My flippant thought: Did you succeed?
She looked as she had.
An abandon...
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Categories:
calibrate, grandmother, grief, holocaust, irony,
Form: Free verse
Midnight Mirror
...Generation, slide like land?
Fall into the sea?
Toil, tamarind! Much is planned!
So then, file my plea!
Weather, looking bad of late.
Volcanic my hate!
Cross the world or just the strait?
Be...
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Categories:
calibrate, baptism,
Form: Rhyme
Still Blinking III
...First, remove the eyelids—
they hold too much fiberglass.
Grind streetlight into gunpowder,
cut it with gravel—snort the cocaine dusk.
Take the sidewalk like heretic communion,
metal-flake wine,...
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Categories:
calibrate, angst, romantic love, satire,
Form: Lyric
Midnight Confessions
...First, remove the eyelids—
they hold too much fiberglass.
Grind streetlight into gunpowder,
cut it with gravel—snort the cocaine dusk.
Take the sidewalk like heretic communion,
metal-flake wine,...
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Categories:
calibrate, allegory, corruption, courage, Lullaby,
Form: Blank verse
Energy Creates
...As energy accumulates,
It also creates,
Operates,
In different states.
Obtaining traits,
Learning to propagate,
Designing a substrate,
Continuing to circulate.
It starts to vi...
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Categories:
calibrate, 7th grade, 8th grade,
Form: Rhyme
The Gallery, Gala, Larry, Part 2
...Students their little burning harmonies | you compos’d it
One single gallery | public arras blasé debate re-placed
Sheets just- | cool on clothesline whiskered with wear.
Variousness was it| trus...
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Categories:
calibrate, art, humanity, metaphor, natural
Form: Free verse
Calibrated Calendars
...Calibrated Calendars
02 4 2025
David J Walker
Celebrate
The day
the month
the year
The way
We calibrate
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Categories:
calibrate, time,
Form: Rhyme
Kingdom Come
...I'm stuck between two choices. Is it this, or is it that?
So much weight rides upon my back.
A pack mule to the world, and a slave to my envy.
Staying faithful to people, desiring no glory.
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Categories:
calibrate, anxiety, celebration, growth, inspirational,
Form: Rhyme
I dread the United States presidential 2024 outcome
...I dread the United States presidential 2024 outcome...
Whereby yours truly presages and doth abhor
nothing short of an imminent civil war
dwarfing insurrection on January 6, 2021
oddly enough e...
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Categories:
calibrate, abuse, america, anger, animal,
Form: Free verse
Antisocial Humanitarian
...I only worship at my own altar
I do not even go to nightclubs
I do not even know the Kaaba
Or kneel for a word of prayer
Not even a chant in the stadium
I do not even like talking to others ...
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Categories:
calibrate, assonance, community, humanity, love,
Form: Bio
My Name Is Spring
...
I push the gate- each year elate,
ending my wait to replay fate.
My roots await to drink, hydrate
and fully sate for full growth rate.
Stems push up straight to levitate
buds tha...
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Categories:
calibrate, appreciation, inspirational, spring, tribute,
Form: Personification
Our 6th Sense
...“Time moves faster than life, but death will stop it”
Every second that moves can alter and destroy life, we all have patterns of reflections that moves through time. Sight tells a story that is r...
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Categories:
calibrate, time,
Form: Free verse
Captivated By Poetry
...I am seduced by words and enchanted with melody,
I become absorbed and engrossed as if I were under a spell.
Parchment and ink place me into a trance as I ravish writing.
Delightful and beautiful ...
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Categories:
calibrate, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Balaenoptera Musculus
...Shipping mountains of expanse it gains the above,
a smooth sheen of aphotic immensity
gate-crashes the sky.
We watch as a vast inclination to be enormous
break free of the tenebrous deep.
It...
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Categories:
calibrate, poetry,
Form: Free verse
A Rhyme With Reason
...What’s the reason for the season
What’s a rhyme without a reason
Celebrate calibrate nothing like it does equate
Jesus Christ was born today in a manger far away
He was born for me a...
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Categories:
calibrate, spiritual,
Form: Lyric
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