The Mystery
...The mystery of faith
The mystery of devotion
The mystery of love
The mystery of knowing
What moves us
Within us and without us
What draws a moth to flame
And a flower to Sun
The pull of L...
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Categories:
filings, life, mystery, perspective, spiritual,
Form: Free verse
The Milling of Mind
...Unrealities and realities
grind together in mortar’s mouth,
spilling, pulverizing, volatile perfumes—
succumbing scents of citrus, crushed copper,
musks of bruised lightning,
threshing thunderou...
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Categories:
filings, change, conflict, creation, feelings,
Form: Free verse
I open the jar of poems like a bottle of whiskey on a long night
...I open the jar of poems like a bottle of whiskey on a long night,
where the poet's whispers are raw and direct, a course of love in four acts,
obsessions and (un)blamable loves writhe like cigarett...
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Categories:
filings, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Train the Trainer
...Trainer must be a powerful magnet
For inducing dipole moment.
Guiding star for orientation
Orientation leads to self realisation.
Realization leads to field creation
A potential to a give pr...
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Categories:
filings, education, thanksgiving,
Form: Free verse
Unsoiled White Pages
...Unsoiled white pages attract like magnets
Waiting for words like silvery bits of iron filings
Words and phrases seeking recognition,
Hungering for an emotionally satisfying place
Of ...
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Categories:
filings, space, writing,
Form: Free verse
City
...The zealously guarded
Verdant pasture of
The city club
Attract like filings
To a magnet
A herd of undernourished
Hungry city buffaloes
Just as their slavering lips
Pull at the first mouthfuls...
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Categories:
filings, urban,
Form: Free verse
The Calendar Dealer
...The Calendar Dealer
David J Walker
Pick your own date
Early or late in life
Pick the husband or wife you
Wanted to be
And I will see
What I can do for you
Finding the filings in
Bi...
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Categories:
filings, allegory, lost, time,
Form: Rhyme
Lavender Lady
...LAVENDER LADY
She was my lavender lady;
Standing by the lake,
Gazing across the sky-blue water
At who-knows what in the distance.
She was the very essence of elegance.
Spurning...
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Categories:
filings, hope,
Form: Free verse
Falling Particles
...When a metal tool as simple as a hoe is sharpened, there are several ways to do it but all involve a process that leaves fragments of metal b...
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Categories:
filings, christian, love hurts, pain,
Form: Prose
Losing Someone
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Losing Someone
Written: by Tom Wright
2/23/2016
At times we catch ourselves questioning why
That in droves grievous things, appear to come
We spend time in prayer then say goodbye
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Categories:
filings, death, life, prayer,
Form: Lyric
South of the United States Border
...South Of The (United States) Border...
(Reigns A Welter Of Disorder)
Caravans comprising multitudinous
peoples plodded a steady course
analogous to iron filings drawn by
strong magne...
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Categories:
filings, abuse, america, break up,
Form: Ballad
Old Lyrics
...When lyrics that you haven't heard
For maybe forty years
Come pouring out from deep inside
There might just be some tears.
For hearing Graham Nash last night,
Nostalgia reigned supreme
And I...
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Categories:
filings, music,
Form: Rhyme
Insomnia Sonogram
...agape gave grave to age
bent not to burdens born
cleave verily the leaves of life
distilled stilled styled reviled
entry net try and try
filigree reeds figure loosely
grave gave the age to rage...
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Categories:
filings, allegory, assonance, birth, death,
Form: ABC
Troubled Thoughts 1 Life Proof
...Rude awaakenings
passive resistances
offset reposes
nominal com-pre-poses
clattering synopsis
reflective rejections
loveless offerings
sentient longings
goober finales
creepy filings
jubri...
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Categories:
filings, education, feelings, imagery, philosophy,
Form: Free verse
Ins and Outs Part 1
...Author's note: This is an epic length poem that will have to be split into parts and will be serialized in successive posts.
PART 1
the highway's double line snakes in
and out of my headlig...
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Categories:
filings, how i feel, ,
Form: Free verse
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