Roots and Resilience
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Written: March 08, 2025
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The silence keeps us apart—
quivering quietly near the cusp of dawn,
when hushed voices disappear.
It can be both tu...
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Categories:
chronicled, confusion, identity,
Form: Free verse
FAMILY PICTURE FOUR DECADES AGO
..."Except the Lord build the house, they labour in vain that build it." Psalm 127:1 of the King James Bible
Behold me…
marked with awesome affectionate hues
exuding family love
r...
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Categories:
chronicled, appreciation, christian, faith, family,
Form: Personification
The Double Helix Weft
...The Double Helix Weft
David J Walker
Time is an infinite tapestry
in the warp of a double helix weft
the days unseen
are merely the dream
of a calendars chronicled theft
Time is an illu...
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Categories:
chronicled, time,
Form: Rhyme
In a world where I do not exist
...In a world where I do not exist,
stars will still glow like sequins of lilac.
Nightingales would serenade hope,
fields of fickleness would fade,
unfolding grains of gold in bloom,
cu...
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Categories:
chronicled, absence, death, feelings,
Form: Free verse
Multiverse Skies
...Different choices,
Life unfolds,
Choose your own ending,
Carve out your void.
Twin flames,
Similar paths,
Shared trauma,
Halves of the same soul.
I learned my twin flame had died—
Or should ...
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Categories:
chronicled, analogy, conflict, future, growth,
Form: Rhyme
Poetry Soup Open Mic Kismet
...Dusk marks stygian depths of this eldritch eve quay grim specter beneath the moon's silvery sheath surf cleaves with a hiss as the banshees keen weave lure to the thicket where shadows deceive yet be...
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Categories:
chronicled, bird, dark, death, gothic,
Form: Free verse
Black '47
...Gilgamesh O’Malley left his home in Fermanagh
With dreams of steaming plates of Irish stew.
He ate his last potato last time Sheamus paid the rent.
Since then, there’s not been very much to chew.
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Categories:
chronicled, allegory, endurance, ireland,
Form: Lyric
OPEN FORM NO 24
...TOUCHSTONES
emotional
references
anxious
& creative
innovation
in action
colossal
concepts
chronicled
in reticent
revelation
amplified
& constantly
changing
& sha...
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Categories:
chronicled, poetry,
Form: Verse
The Mask of Labradorite
...Thrice the night—the day!—both fell to sleepless slumber,
But now in Spring, though yet again: The third was three in number.
I sense a wince remind itself,
Of what it means to be,
Instead to ...
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Categories:
chronicled, corruption, imagination, judgement, life,
Form: Rhyme
Oceans of Blood
...A drowned Perpetua inhumane, whose dwellers art furthest from sane,
where mortals had once sought to reign, now mindless husks subject to an eerie pain.
And so, amidst boiling waves of a single...
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Categories:
chronicled, angst, death, depression, eulogy,
Form: Narrative
Raptured In Heaven
...*Image Raptured in Heaven by Pint.
Raptured in Heaven
The unearth enraptured in Heaven's flock,
Those who have mourned, the meek, and merciful,
Answers to who holds the key to unl...
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Categories:
chronicled, beautiful, blessing, heaven, perspective,
Form: Quatern
Continuum
...From source Emanations reverent
Spaces born of oneness collectives
Infiltrate infinity prize prism clouds
Freeing premier born Divine Nexus knots.
Pulse towers of vacuum awakenings
Cross vast vo...
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Categories:
chronicled, age, eulogy, surreal, wisdom,
Form: Free verse
Literary Form
...LITERARY FORM
the suspense
sealed
unexpected
then unmasked
imitative
with exploited variations
influential concepts
innocence
templated
remains
chronicled &experimental
intermitt...
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Categories:
chronicled, poetry,
Form: Other
I Am a Book
...I Am A Book
By David J Walker
I am a book of Unread pages
I am a book
I am a book Written in stages in
A travel log On a road called Time
With the foreign stamps Of Passport Ministers
Ch...
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Categories:
chronicled, allegory, books,
Form: Rhyme
Water's Edge
...Hush
hear the stillness in the waters
the calm and steady to and fro
the ripple-less canvas
that delivers life to our door.
Clear and cavernous
bliss is found in it’s depths
toes dipped in, ...
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Categories:
chronicled, nature, water,
Form: Free verse
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