Pain is Strange
...pain is strange
its range
you can walk
it inhibits
how fast
more than that
it hurts
now I get it
no one knows
but the soul
who lumbers
along
I look and see
all the other bumblebe...
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Categories:
lumbers, age, pain,
Form: Free verse
The Door Of Uncertainty
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I walk gleefully in the gorgeous garden path all alone
with the cadence of love pulsating in my young heart,
nurturing hopes of the permanence of pleasure sown
in my impermanent world...
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Categories:
lumbers, analogy, angst, spiritual,
Form: Rhyme
My Body Is Too Big
...My body is too big
My bones loom over me
and my flesh wraps around them
Heavy like the bricks of a lighthouse tower
The waterfall of my tears posted proudly on a magazine cover
Eighth wonder ...
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Categories:
lumbers, body, mental health,
Form: Free verse
Labyrinthine
...“The devout soul always finds a divine course
in the labyrinthine maze of life” – Quote by Poet
I walk the gorgeous garden path alone
with the cadence of love in the young heart,
nu...
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Categories:
lumbers, analogy, journey, life,
Form: Rhyme
Riding My Bear To Meadow Bird Town
...I am riding my bear to meadow bird terrific town.
He lumbers over the hill and we slide all the way down.
Such a great day to whistle, listen, glisten and clown.
The bear and I tell jokes all the ...
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Categories:
lumbers, 1st grade, 2nd grade,
Form: Monorhyme
Kansas City Aka K C Wolf Day
...I hear them in the hallways
They are using raised voices
Everyone is excited
Because the KC Chiefs mascot was here
They are running flat out now
Too excited to stop
Their voices are higher, the...
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Categories:
lumbers, sports,
Form: Narrative
Probability
...A scholarly man of numbers,
when confronted said, “Chance be gone!
He who believes the lie slumbers.”
A scholarly man of numbers
challenges the mind that lumbers.
“Probability is the brawn!”
A ...
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Categories:
lumbers, education, games, math, science,
Form: Triolet
Ship of State
...The ship of state lumbers along the horizon
Like a gigantic seagoing vessel, she struggles
To stay afloat in turbulent waters she lies in,
A pilot must keep her afloat during troubles....
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Categories:
lumbers, metaphor, patriotic, perspective,
Form: Pantoum
Tule Fog Dixon, California
...I wait for the heat
of the Allis Chalmers crawler’s engine
to fill the tarped in space
where I sit huddled
next to levers, gauges and knobs.
The crawler seems to float.
The tule fog obscures th...
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Categories:
lumbers, death, farm, seasons, youth,
Form: Free verse
Lion
...Large muscular strong cat
Labeled as king of beasts
Lives in grassland in pride
Lavish mane crown male dons
Lumbers elegantly
Labors hunting in night
Lunges at prey’s neck.
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Categories:
lumbers, animal,
Form: Pleiades
Lights and Numbers
...Lights & Numbers
David J Walker
When he said
Think ahead
I think he was
Thinking of numbers
What I heard
(Silly nerd)
Was seamless dreams
In vivid colors of
Visions in
Slumbers
As ...
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Categories:
lumbers, allegory, light, mystery,
Form: Rhyme
Barnabas Oral's Sightless Game
...He plays throughout the house at night
a braille touch for his lack of sight
and dreams of all the crippled things
with broken legs and shattered wings.
The bandage on his wounded eyes
will...
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Categories:
lumbers, dark, games, humorous, psychological,
Form: Rhyme
Brutus
...Brutus, my slavering Rottweiler, growls
He knows he's tougher than pooches with tails
The long pointed studs on his black leather collar
Are matched by his canines which make poodles holler
The...
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Categories:
lumbers, animal, dog, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
The Heroes Welcome
...The heroes welcome...
So he lumbers home,his day, rough..long ..up before dawn.. watching his child still asleep..but he must.. running to gather his wares, to catch the bus ..which takes him to the...
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Categories:
lumbers, child, devotion, encouraging, father
Form: Free verse
In Mexico
...In Mexico there are no aliens with visas
If you listen carefully earthquakes whisper
A carriage lumbers along on 3 square wheels
With sounds known only to God in His infinite wisdom
Plump women ...
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Categories:
lumbers, adventure, celebration, death, grave,
Form: Free verse
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