You Do the Math
...You Do the Math
David J Walker
Such is the cost of
Granting another day
Travel another step away
Down A longer path
You do the Math
Scribbled and quibbled
On every empty calendars gra...
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Categories:
quibbled, allegory, math,
Form: Rhyme
Age and a Footballer
...Age and a footballer
A lot I hold against Age:
It can the cheapest goals wedge,
The fortyish striker make a tired leg;
Final whistle of a match quick to beg,
The referee not afraid to bluff
F...
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Categories:
quibbled, age, fear, football,
Form: Rhyme
Romans Or Roamin'
...Nero fiddled, Rome burned
Washington quibbled, Americans learned
to buy a gun to defend their homes
and a great big hose for fires that roam...
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Categories:
quibbled, america, irony, political,
Form: Epigram
Super Un Serious Friends
...“butter flies and marshes mellow”, that’s what he said to me.
did i look shocked — you bet, but i did him one better.
“mine craft and more bid yeller,” I smirked,
and he said, “wazzthatsposedtom...
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Categories:
quibbled, angst, humor, words,
Form: Free verse
The Precipice
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"The Precipice"
In the Autumn
she wore a wedding veil
A cold winter would lift it
Kiss her lips passionately to
speak words of
LOVE
on a...
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Categories:
quibbled, god, humanity, science,
Form: Free verse
Badder Bladder Climbing Ladder
...Badder Bladder Climbing Ladder
There had been a problem with my bladder,
Higher and higher I would climb tall ladder;
When I quibbled,
Dribbled and dribbled;
Bader and bader did become my blad...
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Categories:
quibbled, allegory, analogy,
Form: Limerick
The Man Who Ignored His Wife
...THE MAN WHO IGNORED HIS WIFE
How could you do it dear, she cried
You think you’ll keep me satisfied
How could you quit a Wall Street job
To muck about with every slob
A rising star---you blaze a tr...
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Categories:
quibbled, husband, introspection, life, love,
Form: Couplet
Crimes In Mind
...Ideas so many quibbled in my mind
I can't see what's the best, the better or I'm blind?
help me find the solution
my head aches for this question.
Crime novels I love to read
think the way criminal ...
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Categories:
quibbled, death, imagination, me,
Form: Rhyme