Short Filings Poems

The tracks left at our death
Will reveal more than our shoe size.
For in these tracks,
Filings of our lives will be found.
The test facing us then,
Will not see pencil to paper, or voice to air,
But our life as an overlay
On the image of Jesus Christ;
Make each day count....

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The Calendar Dealer
David J Walker

Pick your own date 
Early or late in life 

Pick the husband or wife you
Wanted to be
And I will see 

What I can do for you
Finding the filings in 
Bindings of memories of 
Calendars past

And at last, though late
And determined by a set fate

I can expose you
Although you will only see
What you wanted to be

And not what you were in the
Lost days blurred vision in 

The grasp of a dealer 
In calendars past...

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The mystery of faith
The mystery of devotion 
The mystery of love 
The mystery of knowing 
What moves us
Within us and without us 
What draws a moth to flame
And a flower to Sun
The pull of Life on Life
Like attracting and healing like
Without fear of union 
Without hope of resistance 
Iron filings gather
Around the magnet to reveal 
The pattern of polarity’s flow

So much to perceive
So much to know
And still we barely scratch the surface 

(5/3/25)...

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