Long Autographed Poems

ON MY MOTHER’S PASSING

i wanted to keep my mother physically with me
but it would be like trying to hold the sun
like in life she still shines brighter than any star
is as gentle as the finest...

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Unquotable quotes: Writers – XXXVIII

     for Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra and Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoieski  
     who let not even hope sustain them and who used their...

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On a footpath of a street she lay,
It was dark outside her and inside.
Bruised hands, cut lips, dying soul,
She didn’t remember how much she had cried.

At the time he had left her and gone
And she...

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I'm afraid that this poem was too long to post in one part; here's Part 2, full title: 

Dragons Make Great Heating Systems 
(Until They Discover That There’s More To Life…)

The next month we received...

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I was newly hired at her place of employment. My office was not yet prepared for occupancy, so I shared an office with my superior. It happened 30 years ago and although I was a...

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The word 'happy' appears in the Bible 26 times; happier appears 1 time.
The words joy, joyful, and joyous are recorded more than 200 times.
A Master Card Ad from the late 90s comes to mind with...

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Greetings.  We received your toxic tax documents today; proceeded to immerse them in the de-cootie wash for precisely 30 minutes; then showered them with Gamma Ray’s, which is not what you think it is,...

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No doubt you have an unending smile 
even when you're not wearing it.
The heart of a Gold we can say.
Caring, supportive and
Autographed with Diamonds 

It's okay to want to feel like
wrapping some arms 
Around a...

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A Scottish Drinking Song-Story

A Scotsman clad in kilt left the bar one
evening fair, and one could tell by how
he walked that he drank more than his share.
He stumbled of into the grass to sleep beside
the...

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That's not MY elephant!
A spiteful conceited elephant that ran away from the circus
MY elephant provides copies of the Bill Of Rights to all 2nd graders in Macon County
Considers fund-raising possibilities of selling elephant ears at...

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A Wilderness of Mirrors.  I am unfamiliar with Iron Maiden's music, even though I worked a handful of times at their concert. I was curious about their mascot guy...Eddie.  At one of their...

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Spring Special

“ Life’s Magic Lantern”
Is my latest book a
Wonderful variety of poetry
In many different poetic styles.
Very inspirational and visual.
Uplifting and enjoyable for
Any age
~~~~~~~
“Just For The Pun Of  It”
In my latest Book, a collection
Of funny...

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Empty Closets
            by Odin Roark

How empty the content
Delusion's walk-in closet
Hideaway's glory
Filled to burst

Collected identities
Acquired by proxy
Guarded by duplicity's two-edge sword
Honed by loneliness

Obsessive darkness
Filled with...

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Empty Closets
            by Odin Roark

How empty the content
Delusion's walk-in closet
Hideaway's glory
Filled to burst

Collected identities
Acquired by proxy
Guarded by duplicity's two-edge sword
Honed by loneliness

Obsessive darkness
Filled with...

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Snowfall in July
David J Walker


What if today 
Is just the extension of
Another summers day to
Remember a Decembers snowfall

The subtle absurdity of snow
Shaking like the glitter 
Of a snow globe on
A sunny summer Sunday
That could be...

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in the caves where the water flows
i hum a tune that crept into my mind from way back
i wish that she could have come, but she is still healing
i wish that she could feel this,...

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My long-time love gave me a special gift,
a photo of himself when he was young.
He even autographed it: “Love you! Dave.”
From then, upon my wall this treasure hung
where I could always gaze at it~~but then
his...

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Asked her to flow with me

Let her words cascade over me

Pick me up like a stone

in a flooded river

Carve contours in my landscape

Leave my mind meandering

lay near a meadow

direct shepherd to sheep.

Have hallelujah experiences

while stirring...

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Spent thirty minutes past curfew 
mother's punishment an easy task,nothing new
finish chores when I'm bored
laundry cleaning's evovled from washboards
to cleaners and washer-dryers
the clothing's piled high,higher 
than my height and summer nostalgia's hard to fight
everything stunk...

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My Room
Crumpled paper litters the floor
recycled thoughts returning home
my soul has become a stowaway
within each scribbled dropping
books line the many shelves
a collection of all my friends
love and companionship
need not always be reciprocated
Poet's stare at me...

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Living Truth

Ancient guides of venerated truth
Stumble through numb spiritual graveyards
Where truth casts its shadow in chiseled words,
A signature of affection,
On moss bathed alabaster stones that once 
Gleamed in treasures of veracity,
Autographed insights of the ancient...

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Heard the word treasure
Think of a bag of gold
Rare coins
An old book autographed by a famous author

They have a great value
Our greatest treasure is none of these
It is a treasure of life
Our lives are precious

They...

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Voices are low, and the pages unfold
Dusty worn jackets, on paper-back shores 
Classics of old, or a best-seller's gold

Renaissance store, with a bent spinal core
Latitude shelves, heavy with multitudes
Autographed copies, fiction and lore

Chapters reread, opened...

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Let’s rhyme as if we can and could
uncaught poet's schnook traced and pushed.
Writing rhymes words fluent posed well N, good
Poet on the end of each sentence a hood and crook
mellow laden handwritten booked completed on...

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Rays of light mottle an atmospheric canvas
Varnished with a saddened hue of blue
One requires the other

Alarm clocks chime the birth
Vocalized stretches alert commencement

Rising spines challenge each mind
to acknowledge gratitude
Whether expressed or not

Fate marks an autographed...

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