Short Notched Poems

let's escape tonight
leave this drum behind
without packing
without our phones

just take our scars
and sculptured bones
we notched upon each other...

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early caramel morning sunrise
melt orchid sky as offspring arise; 
nature's breath ignites the earth's beauty 
notched in red velvet rose for just thee.


1/30/2019...

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Autumn trees burnished with silken robes
Uniform, Katsura lobes glow with cherry strobes
Twinkling-orange, Sugar Maple stars; brimming mother 
lode
Unseemly, brown-spotted, White Oak pinnates; fools gold
Majestic, yellow-crowned, Aspen leaves' pleated folds 
shimmer
Notched, White Ash lanceolates bathed in purple gloss 
glimmer...

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Listen to poem:

Pictograph Biography 
David J Walker

If asked
He might or might not
Remember the past 
The old man had notched the  days
By the thousands in his trek 
Around the sun
Each marking its path as a
Tattooed etching by the 
Laser edge of history in his skin 
Of every day and every place 
he had ever been
And even if he cannot 
remember them
The pictographs tell the 
Story of everyone who had
Touched him...

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A constant pain of rain.
The roll of tires through town.
The wipers dab my face -
Eye clouds suspended tears.
In Spring, I’ve lost my place.

A constant pain of rain.
The shock of scented air.
Grave roots push up, stem bends.
The sideways shower guts.
The heartbreak never ends.

A constant pain of rain.
I’m driving through the storm.
I squeeze raindrops, life-size -
In tribute, clutch mom’s cross.
Each Spring brings notched goodbyes....

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