Learning Language Poems

When questioned about chinese,
I affirmed my expertise.
And so I sought to learn more,
Having known nothing before....

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Out of the mouths of babes isn’t like it was before.
What they here is worse, than they speak poor.
Words that a young one should never...

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In our phonetics class of tongue-tasking
Students delight in pronunciation basking
Musk is distinct against mosque… just checking
And musk differs from mask; that’s so striking!

With definitions for...

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7/6/22
Drying fallen tears
Oh where is the death bed now
Very forgotten

7/5/22
Empathy signs on
Yes, in the depths of darkness
Light consumes the soul

6/29/22
Abscesses are not
Easily brushed away
Cleansing is...

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“Brilliant, but…”
“Brilliant, but, what?”
“It’s beyond me.”
“That I would ask this of you, at all?”
“It’s more just than that…”
“What is it, that you’re thinking of, exactly?”
“It...

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Language 

Let me know what you talking about
Verbally yes out your mouth 
You said you can't talk 
Then explain 
Your language has changed (has changed...

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My little granddaughter
Being hyperactive
Slow in talking
Sometimes a bit burden
But slowly we find the reason and love in her
She likes catoons and watches it 
Everyday every...

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Versus me 
(chilling as an outsize ego freezer)
profusely perspiring 
and heavily panting
experiencing one after another 
stuff whet dreams are made
frolicking in autumn mist
(think Maxfield Parrish...

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HeartChoice,
the Why 
of my prayers,
invocations,
anxieties,
deep learning anticipations

Music of Integrity
throughout compassion's timeless
walking wounded prayers

Felt inside Win/Lose violent history
of uncivil suffering
mystery
of Either/Or non lullaby

Discord rooted and stuck...

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There was a man from Millinocket
Who kept a green frog in his pocket
When asked why he did it
He said “Gribit Gribit
I’m learning frog language. Don’t...

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I'm a med student, one day, I pray, an M.D,
learning about diseases from Brucella to T.B.

Prescribing medication much stronger than O.T.C,
baffling with new technology, specialised...

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Affirmation of Love
David J Walker

Learning to say I love you
In one of the languages that
We both think we understand 
Left wondering in the after actions
If...

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Borrowed Words of a Denizen Soul
David J Walker

I admit to the
Plagiarism of the language 
I am still learning to use
Day by day by day

So often...

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Language So Learned Begins


I always thought it too audacious to think myself a poet-born but I tried it at age ten then my mother laughed...

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Relaxing myself midst a worthy accomplishment
of checking essays which became a rigorous engagement…

I drifted a while for a festive entitlement
recalling such ‘laugh-out-loud’ moment  
melting...

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