Right Turns Hard Times
...Right Turns Hard Times
David J Walker
Only a scooter as if
a Scooter
was just a toy
The memory disguised
as an errant thought
Brought tears of joy
To a man returning to a boy
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Categories:
faultiness, age, allegory,
Form: Rhyme
This Image of Me
...This image of me, now so many years later
each year looking, I’ve found some imperfection
Mirror-mirror, why should I ask - my time won't last,
peering into you, gray now, not young only faultines...
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Categories:
faultiness, beautiful,
Form: Free verse
Unforgiveness
...Follow me into the abyss
Lower me into the well
Drink of my hopelessness
Swim into my faultiness
Swallow your pride
Take another stride
You’ll never make it out alive...
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Categories:
faultiness, forgiveness,
Form: Free verse
Advice To My Pupils Before I Withdraw
...To conquer you should at both ends the candle burn
By leaps and bounds seek long to sojourn
In the arena of knowledge imbibe from every stream
Lend an ear to your flaws,don't be so swift to overes...
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Categories:
faultiness, dedication,
Form: Didactic
Mirror - Mirror On My Wall
...This image of me, now so many years later
each year looking, I’ve found some imperfections
Mirror-mirror, why should I ask - my time won't last,
peering into you, gray now, not young only faultine...
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Categories:
faultiness, age, class, emotions, feelings,
Form: Prose Poetry