Short Canticle Poems

a showpiece
a speciality
        to 
           declaim:
visually clever
a retort even
to circulate:
enfolded
in a prestigious
compendium
of the poetsirregular&glib-
a hackneyed canticle
to provoke
           or not...

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Sometimes it overwhelms
and breaks open
what holds me,
becomes me
and I a part
of its breath
and surge, one
with no seam or crack
but whole
and giving lift
to words,
song to wind
and waves
to swell across oceans
and wash shores 
not known to me before,
a crystal dream,
fragile as glass,
a shell that opens
and lets free
a living world
and light.....
and me....

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This beautiful day of December is yours
we all get together to love and rejoice 
We'll always remember the day you were born 
The angels of heaven are here to adore 
mmmmm          mmmmmmm     mmmmmm
This canticle hymn is about your brave choice 
to enter this world like a child with no toys 
The stable is lit with the flame of your love 
on this beautiful day of December 
on this beautiful day of December...

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Listen to poem:

Captive Canticle
David J Walker

Imagine her always dressed as summer
Perpetually blown from day to day by
A youthful song  and 
I could have been the singer…  or
I could have been the distant canticle
Sung on her bedside radio 
Strewn in rose petal  expectations of the
Perpetual journey of the protagonist in
A love poem who will never be seen 
Beyond the next tomorrow

The chapter ends and she remains
The captive canticle of the book...

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