MY TRIP TO HEAVEN PART 1
...It was 6/10/19 at 5am. I was asleep in my front room. I first became aware that i was in a differant place when i seen myself in the pitch black sky with billions of stars all around me. My left s...
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Categories:
front room, analogy, angel, bible,
Form: Free verse
An elegy for innocence
...Historically the books are written by a well-known writer
The characters are formed to choose the sense of flight or fighter
The library of the mind stows away the facts from the fiction
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Categories:
front room, break up, bullying, deep,
Form: Rhyme
A Tale To Tell
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An old stone cottage stands on the seafront
Abandoned and alone
Windows covered in sea salt and cobwebs
Its history and story unknown
A small white cottage with good bones
That has weathered...
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Categories:
front room, history, old, sea, time,
Form: Rhyme
Five Years after the Last Flagging Assignment
...The dryer hums,
and my clothes are drying.
It rained earlier, but now
the sun is peering through clouds.
As I awaken, the morning is still.
I sit at a table in the front room
and it creaks.
Wh...
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Categories:
front room, age, home, memory, metaphor,
Form: Free verse
Your Name
...It has you walking home
from school, past that house
where the front room curtains
moved yet revealed no face behind
only the trace of a shadow
stepping back into your mind -
the sound of foots...
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Categories:
front room, anxiety, childhood, fear,
Form: Free verse
Honeymoon Planned
...She’s the girl of my dreams
The darling of my life
Very soon to be
My lawful wedded wife.
I want to offer her my everything
Lay the whole world at her feet
Want out honeymoon to be
Such a ve...
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Categories:
front room, humor, love, marriage,
Form: Rhyme
The Reality of a Fantasy Rain
...The Reality of A Fantasy Rain
David J Walker
Remembered in the
Paint by number dreams the
Fantasy rain
Seems to be falling
following
calling me by faith
to the
front room
pic...
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Categories:
front room, allegory, faith,
Form: Rhyme
Pride of Place - My Mother's Piano
...Pride of Place - My Mother's Piano
My mother’s hands on ivory keys wove enchanted runes
Then flew across the keyboard in musical monsoons
Notes of black and white in song serenades communed
She...
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Categories:
front room, appreciation, mother, music,
Form: Monorhyme
A Ghost Story
...While on a holiday hike in the Aravalli hills in Rajasthan,
I stopped by a palatial house shining in the summer sun,
curious, through the half-closed door I entered silently
the dark front r...
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Categories:
front room, fear, scary,
Form: Rhyme
Past Times 8
...RITES OF PASSAGE
Each Christmas we all gathered there,
‘Aunt Clare, has more room ,after all’ with
her trestled tables and chair.
Grown-ups swigging their brown bottled ale,
young-uns, lemonade ...
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Categories:
front room, christmas, family,
Form: Rhyme
Stepdance
...With speedy, gutsy ease
her Irish father rolls up the front room rug
Gaelic music lathers the air in merriment
Nelligen at 8, composed
snags our attenti...
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Categories:
front room, age, child, children, dance,
Form: Free verse
Was It Just a Dream
...During the day I don’t think much about ghosts…perhaps by the sun I’m blinded…
but in the quiet ebony of the evening…I’m a little more open minded.
I awoke in the middle of the night…(when you’re...
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Categories:
front room, dream,
Form: Rhyme
The Anticipation of Snow
...The Anticipation of Snow
David J Walker
No matter how old I grow
The anticipation of snow
Beckons the memories of my feet
Deep in rubber boots
We called galoshes
Stepping into a virgin wh...
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Categories:
front room, nostalgia,
Form: Free verse
Bad-Year Obituary
...Well the Will of twenty twenty
Did not favour its kids gently.
Was the smirk in in that jerk's dying breath a gest left to make us unfriendly?
Or did it point at his suffocators, through pillows o...
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Categories:
front room, corruption, environment, funeral, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
Grannys Laughing Cake
...I often think back to that care free age and those wondrous six weeks of school holidays,
The Prison was out ,
nothing more to learn and with any luck the place would burn .
It was off too th...
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Categories:
front room, child, grandparents,
Form: Rhyme
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