The anatomy of holding on
...Inside, there’s a small museum where I keep
the pieces I couldn’t let go of:
the first laugh, a heartbeat that wasn’t mine,
the warmth that made me think I was whole.
Each memory cataloge...
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Categories:
cataloged, grief, symbolism, writing,
Form: Free verse
Prayer At the Gallows
..."Nobody favors a share ...
for sins I bear,
no one cares.
Now that the appointed hour pines faintly,
I stand in lights grace, a shadow no more,
barring lives in my wake and none be...
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Categories:
cataloged, anxiety, death, family, fate,
Form: Free verse
The Voice
...I have mapped the perimeter
of what's not there,
measured the night
and calculated the weight
of a dream as it floats
across the surface
of a sleeping mind.
I have calibrated silence
and ...
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Categories:
cataloged, voice,
Form: Free verse
Sleeping Beauty Galaxy
...Sleeping Beauty tosses and turns
as in a course contrary churns
galactic realm outside the heart
where further spatial spying smart
more astronomic savvy learns.
While telescopic eye sojourns
...
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Categories:
cataloged, dream, fantasy, life, sleep,
Form: Rondeau
Painful Pleasure
...No one prepared me for what I found
The fear
Alive
Suffocating
Alone I stood
An enemy without a face
A child I was
Though only a few years have passed
Not one single day fades in...
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Categories:
cataloged, betrayal, dark, farewell, fear,
Form: Free verse
People
...Humanity is comprised of people of varying skin shades,
white, black, red, brown, olive, and yellow, to name a few.
And amongst every skin color, there are intelligent, stupid,
honest, de...
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Categories:
cataloged, america, anger, angst, feelings,
Form: Free verse
Goodbye
...and wipe your civilized feet on the lawn
scorched by the fire of the hours
let the happy afternoons at the shopping center
rest on the old shelf balanced on the bricks
carefully get out of the...
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Categories:
cataloged, farewell, universe,
Form: Free verse
The Last Full Moon of the Season
...The Last Full Moon of the Season
David J Walker
Day of past days
Once in the way of
This today
Hours of past hours
Cataloged and
Overlapped with
Horrors of mirrors
And old age
In i...
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Categories:
cataloged, allegory, seasons,
Form: Rhyme
Curse of the Wisdon
...books stacked, spine horizontally allowing the title and author to be seen, cars facing the front, hood and license plate, people and trees distinguishable by height and hair or crown, the sequenc...
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Categories:
cataloged, books, father, memory,
Form: Prose
Nowhere In Particular
...Nowhere in Particular
David J Walker
Is it enough that
we once
shared the same sky
that we walked the
same streets and
greeted the same citizens
aimlessly passing by
is it enough tha...
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Categories:
cataloged, lost love,
Form: Rhyme
Kaleidoscope World
...Kaleidoscope World
David J Walker
The interlocutors
took their positions in
The discourse of the values of
obscure colors
First Vermilion and then Coquelicot
But ...
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Categories:
cataloged, allegory,
Form: Rhyme
Guide Words For Living
...It is sickening to grow flowers
of suffered memories ...
Collect swoops from
cataloged failures ...
It is pernicious in everything put
our brand counterfeiting
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Categories:
cataloged, allegory, allusion, appreciation, extended
Form: Free verse
Diamonds of Many Facets
...Molasses summers break the sun,
chase frost to sheltered shade;
retreating youthful hearts
feel the cold upon them laid.
Seeing is not believing.
Believing is believing.
Seeing is drinking...
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Categories:
cataloged, allegory, analogy, humanity, life,
Form: Rhyme
Heartbeat of a Star
...
Oh, living, breathing star
how beautiful you are.
You pulsate from afar-
our cosmic avatar.
Life beats inside your heart
that rends dust-rays apart
so elements- impart
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Categories:
cataloged, star,
Form: Rhyme
A Product of My Memories
...
A Product
Of My Memories
WRITTEN: BY Tom Wright
11-21-2011
An inner longing for friends once known,
Even some, that flow has whispered away.
I’ve cataloged thoughts as time has grow...
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Categories:
cataloged, friend, god,
Form: Lyric
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