Long Skulks Poems

I've sat alone
For hours or days?
I do not know
Who goes or stays.
I've paid no mind
To the lost souls.
Strangely I've heard it all
Though no one surely knows.

I've been watching the streets
Watching the dying crowd.
I wish I'd...

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"You are welcomed to your room at night, everything is in the same familiar place. It's been long day. Climbing in to your comfy bed. Switching off the light. Nothing bad can happen"
Quote by Poet

Anything...

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He loiters in shadows in line for no harp
The tools of his trade all surgically sharp
He slices their throats before they start yelling
The Lord knows his name but the Lord isn’t telling

So prowling these lanes...

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Phantom icons scratched on sterile walls
Where your spirit wrestles in anguish
Strewn upon the floors are the shards of yesterdays mirror
You…once castigated to remain pure in innocence
That zealousness now interned weights your pockets
Dwelling on the erudition...

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Shadows detach at dusk to sneak silently away 
to roost together like bats in rookeries,
hanging upside down, wrapped in black mantles, gossiping.

Each shadow reborn each morn seeks out its host
like a parasite seeking sustenance and...

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Surrounded by mud
our feet make love to the surface
the bullets kiss us, the bayonets hug
our intestines and the blankets
cuddle with our cold, decaying corpses
we write to our wives, letters that will never be delivered
the wet...

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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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O' That Aristotle Should Return To Proclaim

O' that Aristotle should return to proclaim
wise, worldly words written with furious winds.
Reveal more wisdom, garner even more fame
point to history, prophecy - all such portends.

Only if Homer could...

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Ghulam crosses the Indian border
to conquer. Bodies vanish; souls
wander in the vicarious valleys.

Fanatics essay to frighten
the music maestro, shouting 
outside the auditorium.

If they sit inside, they’ll return
as men. There’s no discrimination
in music. Minds molt mundane

emotions,...

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(If you can't make sense of this, Google
"Schrodinger's Cat."   Then I think you will)

What is this thing that I may do,
that at this moment is no thing at all
...and cannot be until the...

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Ghulam crosses the Indian border
to conquer. Bodies vanish; souls
wander in the vicarious valleys.

Fanatics essay to frighten
the music maestro, shouting 
outside the auditorium.

If they sit inside, they’ll return
as men. There’s no discrimination
in music. Minds molt mundane

emotions,...

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Sluggish suppurating symbol of disgust,
Dragged wailing into a reproachful life
Child of wrath and sloth and lust
All she will ever know is
Strife

Curdled flesh clings to a brittle scaffold
Pebbled orbs recline in sunken hollows
Starving slavering mouth unfolds
Engulfs...

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A life of learning is not for the meek
  against your views some will loudly speak;
    jackals sneering and snickering in their folly
      and in that...

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An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth,
Pitied is the vanity of sheer vengeance-
For lying in justice is seldom truth
And petty satisfaction in mere penance.

The Magpie, all swathed in day and night,
Shall weep...

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