Short Pendent Poems

There is a language
in earth and in trees
that pushes from deep
upwards to where words
become form in leaf 
and blossom unfolding 
in air with open mouths –

a language that takes your breath
and fills you full as if all love
was held gorged, cupped 
in a pendent spasm 
and to move would make
you burst and fill
the air with pollen....

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Crystal dewdrop jewels pendent from leafless Hawthorne
over snowdrop pearls and early golden buds of daffodil.
A blackbird upon Sparrow, Peggy Gladys does adorn,
while morning light accentuates the name of Mitchell, Bill.
I look behind, my footsteps in the dew a path have worn,
past Throwers by the row, as well as Bunting, Jane. Stowe, Daniel....

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Chaotic Conversations
(A Matter of Time)
David J Walker

perhaps it is diseased 
it said
	the voice
whispering in my head
criticizing its creator 

they will know
	you know
it said
	confident of 
a pendent timeline
awaiting the charm of the chime 

the tightly wound clock’s alarm
coming sooner 
or maybe later
in chaotic conversations

but anyway
its just a matter of time...

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