Death Lines Poems

When I pen lines, fresh thoughts of Vincent van Gogh
     strike me! How, with palette and brushes, he breathed
life's scenes onto...

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Before The Blacktop Ends
David J Walker

The world wends 
	And extends 
A mile or two before
The blacktop ends 
It ends in dust 

	It ends in rust
Transcends...

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Daylight drags its feet,
its slippers are grey and pad silently.
Long after dawn
night keeps rolling over in its grave
refusing to die or give way.

Bats flutter listlessly...

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I'm often called upon to write a verse
for someone's birthday or a funeral,
four or eight lines,
rhyme scheme of ABAB or ABBA.

But here are no rhyming...

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Living in a bubble where reality is virtual
 Truth is a blur in a fabricated ritual
 TV news bursting with political views
 The rich pay...

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O, fair heavenly Rose! How I sigh,
     and sigh all the more! to smell your scent
and fresh bouquet, before I soon...

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We were aware of Red China's Communist's President plans to achieve world dominion by 2035 or even earlier. But are we aware he plans "to...

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It's been a little more and two score

Since I revisited all of my most
treaured ghostly line from my
poetic past

Dipped and dabbed my nib in ink
like...

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I studied your vital signs 
as time was in question,
clinging to undulating lines.
I studied your vital signs,
emotions mirroring their declines,
desperate for a receptive expression.
I studied...

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silent words of dread
                i recite each night in bed
...

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lines of sad mad heart 
never tells lie
it only bleeds the truth
that could never hurt anyone
rather understandable
and intentionally emotional
to feel alive in the moments after...

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COVID-19 or LOVE IN A TIME OF CORONA (Take 2)

I
Love in a time of Corona is best 
Expressed, all tested, by a bonded pair
We have...

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memoirs of time i trace
its fine lines etch
tribulations found
in scorns upon my face

these hands of time
move without sound
yet in the hush
lts voice will chime

i see...

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Read Between The Lines

It was the point of a meaningless moon,
That being dealt life, its absolute gloom,
Vague stars shone hope to reposed past of Earth,
Dusk...

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In the leys,
The magic lies;
Secrets ancient,
Reveal the prize.

When Earth was born, 
Her siblings were too;
And on that morn,
First breath they drew.

A dance lifelong,
Is celestial reel;
The...

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