Short Remonstrance Poems

Regret,
a bitter
ache to bear . . .

once starlight
languished
in your hair . . .

a shining there
as brief
as rare.

Regret . . .
a pain
I chose to bear . . .

unleash
the torrent
of your hair . . .

and show me
once again—
how rare....

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A fugitive 




A fugitive I maybe ....
but I don't wait for the dark,
Living as a vagabond
and spreading clinquant spark,

As sun lights my path
intuition ushers aftermath,
Remonstrance doesn't curb
when prowess rides the nerve,
A fugitive I maybe ...




Written April 2nd, 2016
For contest by Julia Ward...

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Hymns Sung in Summer Rain
David J Walker


Driven by wind and rain
She sings the same 
  	As if the sun 
	Shown as a halo 
In her hair

The same as if
clouds were silver
bordered in dark swirls 
of crass girandole syllables 
with a flair 

The same as if
	no one dare 
	challenge a remonstrance 
	painted the name 
of fained care 

the same as if 
	the sun 
	and the halo 
were never there...

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