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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

Premium MemberPrayer 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



Premium MemberThe 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



Premium MemberPeople

...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

Premium MemberThe 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

Premium MemberNowhere 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

Premium MemberKaleidoscope 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

Premium MemberDiamonds 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

Premium MemberHeartbeat of a Star

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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

Premium MemberA Product of My Memories

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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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