Long Catcalls Poems

In numerous locales countrywide, they hold sway
Pirouetting at intervals like ballerinas from Bolshoi
Beauteous, feline and very feminine
Slender to the point of emaciation, not quite
Cultivating the undernourished look on a frugal diet
Decidedly austere for a longer...

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I
Hear the bouncing of the balls--
Basketballs!
What a sound of merriment they cause when each ball falls!
How they echo, echo, echo,
Inside the gymnasium walls,
Arriving at a crescendo
While the spectators shout “Bravo!”
Drowning the referee’s calls;
And the players...

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(continued from PART  ONE)


Why I’ve seen him countless times, regurgitate old dog faeces onto fresh bread  
And listened  to his quiet voice exhorting me to do the same. 
This fly was a...

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There's a murderer outside the door.
He wields a chainsaw because he's a fanatic for extravagant antics.
Fantastic.
He's manic. A bipolar man suffering the manic stage.
Some would say the diagnosis said otherwise. Some would say a misdiagnosis....

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HOPE

Her eyes were wide open, clothes all dishevelled and torn,
They had raped her brutally, taken her dignity away
The scars were there; forever to stay,
No amount of counselling could ignite the spark
She was always afraid of...

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Catcalls and rapes
Molesting all sizes and shapes
Broadcasted on TV, the recorded tapes
But blame is on the victim howsoever she drapes
Cause that’s how this society gapes
 
A man lies on the street, blood spilled all over
They...

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Scene 1
Curtain rises. Spotlight illuminates a selfie. Notice her beauty. Notice her confidence. Cue likes and comments. A gentle waltz of "yasss queen" and heart eye emojis enter the stage. Cue slut shaming. Up through...

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Recalled that you emerge from the womb of your mother land,
Reared up by that mother land,
Now calling that land mad, 
Admiring the land of abroad,
Are you really a progeny of your mother land?
Calling your mother...

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You are loathed
Since you were cursed 
While you destroy the gains, 
we have made
Taking us back to stone age
A verse that witnessed unprecedented slavery
An act which placed a yoke of hardship on our generation
And viewed...

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Deployment

We stand here in our small groups
Talking nervously
How I handle who I am
Is now all up to me

Our duffles are all neatly stacked
I hear the muffled din
While waiting for the sergeants call
“All right troops, let’s...

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I don’t need a feed of pomp or a creed of fanfare to progress
Cos my God rains treasure trains
Teeming with blessings and fertile feelings to address the plight and stress
That threaten in tens to smuggle...

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Depression is a coat I wear constantly now
It used to hang in the closet now and then
I’d take it out to see if it fits and put it back
Its drab colors are enticing when I’m...

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Turning wheels and big bangs and theories
Catcalls in the alley turn into bursts of signal strength
Stretching all the way to the great beyond
Why do some still feel like we don't belong?

While thoughts are churning
The wagon...

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The Alleys of Virtual Municipalities
By David J Walker

I love walking 
the rutted roads 
Running in 
hidden groves 
Through  
      the residential jungles

the rambling 
backyard boulevards 
dividing the
single file plies...

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In seeming innocence		you lie in the warm ochre
in the center of a dust-kicked street,
a remnant of larger issues	crushed to just the right size
	 by killing blows.

Before the mob merged   before catcalls
raised the hairs...

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The darkness comes in bleeding sorrow when Autumn calls
and summer’s dying light fades to cold, shadow filled dusk,
as the quiet stillness of the invading night falls,
once again, broken on deathly gleaming bloodshot eyes.

She knows what...

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I am the Devil, alone in my Room
   Redolent of pungent cologne and perfume 

Naked I parade, in front of my mirror
   No leering or catcalls, nothing to fear here

Incantantations I...

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I may be the smallest of small fry
  yet I've got an idea that if we try

really try, give it all that we've got
  out absolute 100% better-than-best shot

to develop leaders, true leaders,...

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The flop and flurry of wide, woozy wings
clatters over dawn hedgerows.
Claws scrabble, feathers flounce.
An ounce of twitters rebounds
into raucous sound.

Here a rowdy cackle,
here a coddled coo,
there a deeply fluted hoo-hoo
all together in a ruffled flutter.
Birdsongs...

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The crowd dots the cavernous hall,
colorfully scatter like a box of fallen jujubes,
a virtual confetti of humanity
with hoots and catcalls, the ruckus roar.

The politicians venture forth unabashedly;
prancing and pandering for chump change
like circus bears on...

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The taunts and catcalls slung at her

went seemingly unheard

her heart was breaking deep inside

with every nasty word

 

Her face showed nothing she was sure

her posture unaffected

her pain she kept deep down inside

and would not be...

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I woke to an auto roar, 
The spit of sunbeams filtered dirt, 
The catcalls at the door, 
The grace of love and hurt.

I breathed out the flak of dreams, 
The exhaled death of life askew,...

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Ten generations from Adam to Noah
   Each one more and more depraved
Violence, corruption, promiscuity, theft
   And yet a Merciful God had patience left

Noah worked on his Ark for 120 years
 ...

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Indo-Fijian Girls CAN Run

I Remember...
Clearly as my memories of Fiji’s blue tropical skies
Desiring to raise my hand for the school’s track events until I heard the lies
Frail, short Indian girl was the brand I was...

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