Delphian Poems


Who Enters As I Leave

...I wake in a memoryless room
unlabeled and unanchored,
a floating proprioception unhinged
from time and place.

The bathroom has moved beyond the present
it is where it was once maybe.
This roo...
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Categories: delphian, poetry,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberPhenomena of the Dawn

...Phenomena of the Dawn
David J Walker

Sometimes the silence was true to its name
Allowing the quiet to remain
In its breathe deep Stage 5 rim sleep refrain 
In visions of times that have not pa...
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Categories: delphian, allegory, dream,
Form: Rhyme


To Light the Spoken Air

...Thoughts inflame as feelings stir,
words simmering yet to boil
Unspoken sparks drift through the night,
a pyre still to fan

As heat restores the human soul,
all prodigals return
With hope to ...
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Categories: delphian, voice,
Form: Free verse

Sunset Drunk Sea

...Descending slowly a cherry red sun
hypnotic reflection, a night not begun.
Periwinkle waterfield in saffron graffiti
pearls and amber pink, in a peace treaty.
Over golden sands, Emperor goes to r...
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Categories: delphian, sea, sunset,
Form: Couplet

To Light the Spoken Air

...Thoughts inflame as feelings stir,
words simmering yet to boil
Unspoken sparks drift through the night,
a pyre still to fan

As heat restores the human soul,
all prodigals return
With hope to ...
...
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Categories: delphian, fire, words,
Form: Rhyme


The D Man

...Dappled daunting dandy
 deft decentralizing defender 
deistic delphian deniar
 deliverable deflationary determinist
deny defer delude deflect
 divisive dissentious dualism
dogmatic dumbstruck d...
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Categories: delphian, political, pollution,
Form: List

To Light the Spoken Air

...Thoughts inflame as feelings stir
Words simmer yet to boil
Unspoken sparks drift through the night
A pyre still to burn
 
Delphian in its natural form
The smoke a treacherous friend
Words reki...
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Categories: delphian, words,
Form: Free verse

Emmas Garden

...Emma’s Garden

Flowers of infinity descendants of Divinity florals displaying on Earth
Within their symmetry of exotic imagery guiding love and light to birth
Botanical beaming with Delphian drea...
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Categories: delphian, beautiful, celebration, flower,
Form: Rhyme

Hero of Hearts-Never Too Far

...Her face launched a thousand verses, into the worshipful waves she immerses
With the mermaids, she converses adorned by many in the ultramarine universes
A star child of the celestial s...
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Categories: delphian, friendship, poetess, thank you,
Form: Rhyme

To Light the Spoken Air

...Thoughts inflame as feelings stir
Words simmering yet to boil
Unspoken sparks drift through the night
A pyre still to burn

Delphian in its natural form
The smoke a treacherous friend
Ink reki...
...
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Categories: delphian, poetry,
Form: Blank verse

To Light the Spoken Air

...Thoughts inflame as feelings stir
Words simmering yet to boil
Unspoken sparks drift through the night
A pyre still to burn
 
Delphian in its natural form
The smoke a treacherous friend
Ink rek...
...
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Categories: delphian, poetry,
Form: Blank verse

Don'T Let Babylon Burn

...Don't not let Babylon burn, 
Within her walls, 
Upon her streets. 
All wisdom shines. 

Fight the rage sacrificing your soul, 
Fight the world with all your might, 
Fight to keep the the dream...
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Categories: delphian, art, change, society,
Form: Free verse

Don'T Let Babylon Burn

...Don't not let Babylon burn, 
Within her walls, 
Upon her streets. 
All wisdom shines. 

Fight the rage sacrificing your soul, 
Fight the world with all your might, 
Fight to keep the the dream...
...
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Categories: delphian, art, change, society,
Form: Free verse

To Sorania,With Love

...Am not an aesthetic
poet.
I've no apollos
laurel in ode.
Too fragile is my
tongue to tell your
face;
For your look I dare
to speak.

Play me that
Amphion's harp
That in your mouth
dwells...
...
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Categories: delphian, girlfriend-boyfriend, me,
Form: Free verse
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