Short Walk About Poems

Some whom we honor make lives living hell
Their colleagues know the abuses quite well
People walk about broken
With their anguish unspoken
Wretched secrets are hidden but time may tell

12/20/22...

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A doff of the cap
  a tip of the hat
Nowadays 
  we rarely see that

It’s not that 
  men walk about
unhatted, uncapped

Rather, removing the cap
  reveals quite a gap



   gw       rhyme      June 09, 2022...

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Wisdom speaks in notes of light: If another hates
Their neighbour then truly they walk about, darkness
Having blinded their eyes heart to tongue; burnt offerings....
A winter's blast this altar so seeks ? Stripes, the millstone bleeds....

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A lonely house behind the park,
The place is derelict and dark,
And shutters keep us out.
I picture inside bleak and stark,
With spectral dogs that howl and bark,
And ghosts that walk about.

Jack Horne for Constance’s Haunted House contest...

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Dear mask of alabaster,
Is writ a song, disaster?
I walk about the place,
Where I face,
Whatever happens after;
Arrive, my compass guide,
As a star to Northern sky:
Be sunrise, or twilight,
Let God's palm,
Keep calming mine;
Grave, enshroud me,
Rock of earth,
Should I carry,
No more worth –...

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late  tonight  i cannot  sleep  , noises  in my head  keep  me  above  water  , sounds  outside  id  rather  hide  ,  is  there  a time  i can  slow  this  prosess, keep the  quite  in  for  a  while  ,  with an distingusting smile  , walk about  with  glass  feet  ,  touching  the  sky  before  i die  ....

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Each of us have two wolves living inside us
One wants to eat burritos
and watch horror movies.

The other wants to walk about 
in its underpants all day 
snacking on cheetos between long naps. 

The wolf that thrives is the one 
who lives on with diabetes while the other
dies of a heart attack....

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Emmanuel!
He came to dwell.
God with us,
In the form of Jesus.

This is mind blowing,
Spirit growing
With love to show
My heart will glow.

Smiles come out
As we walk about
And even in sleep,
Our peace we keep.

Inspirations flood in.
We flee from sin.
Life is left more beautiful;
This becomes our pull....

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The sinking feeling falls not upon my head
it has left not to return I dread
a drought has come for sweat soft slumbers touch
I can only lye awake in my bed   
with my minds eye unfed 
they will not return I know without doubt
It is without hope I walk about
I pass out 
not rested I return 
it is to only dream that I yearn...

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Her skin was as dark as night 
And when she stood up 
Against a diamond studded sky 
It was as though all the stars caressed her 
While her silhouette fell across the heavens 

I remember her elegance and beauty 
As I watched the perfection of her form 
Walk about me in the brilliance of the dark 
And as the warmth of her body engulfed me 
I watched while all the stars blinked out 
One by one...

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Color my small world -
   Oh, fair Yeshua -
With a streak of globe mallow
   Inside a rocky draw

And the morning calm
   Of bergamot and lupine -
So I can stop time
   And set my gaze upon them -

And a swath of poppies
   Glowing in the sun
And a glint in the breeze
   As if to show Your love.

I'll go and walk about
   The garden variety -
Knowing that this niche
   Is where I want to be....

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Oh, pretty pastel lion with your puffy cheeks
Beauty is in your colors, your eyes green as creeks.
A mere description is not enough to show your worth.
I hear you have admirers from Kenya to Perth.

I wonder about your heritage your fur is so true.
With a gorgeousness about it in both pink and blue.
Oh pretty pastel lion, you are what we talk about.
However, we do not want to meet you on our walk-about....

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I WALK AROUND WITH A BACKPACK FULL OF MEMORIES, DOZENS OF PICTURES, AND MOMENTS CAPTURED IN MY HEART AND MIND.

I WISH I COULD RETURN TO SOME MOMENTS, AND THERE ARE SOME MOMENTS THAT I WOULD LIKE TO EASE FROM EXISTENCE.

MY EXPERIENCES HAVE MADE ME WHO I AM, A UNIQUE, EMOTIONAL, LOVING, AND CARING MAN.

THE BEATINGS THAT I HAVE TAKEN FROM LIFE HAVE MADE ME A STRONGER, VIGILANT INDIVIDUAL.

I WANT EVERYBODY TO KNOW WHO I AM........

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There are things I know nothing about,
That you should be talking to me about,
Next time you see me out and about.

I have plenty of ideas about,
Things I know nothing about,
That you might like to think about.

When you are fresh out of ideas on subjects you know everything about,
It might be time to take a walk about,
To find someone who has subjects they know nothing about,
And you just might find out what life is all about....

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I am the clown that determines who is to fall 
If I move those around me perish
a single twitch could be the switch from life to death for all 
I walk about your streets 
and suckle on your lifes light 
dont struggle
dont fight
these habits need no explanation 
you would not understand 
I am not human in any shape in no way am I like man 
your hiding spots are alight 
this is the time of feeding 
brought down by my arm of might
this one thing is true
I will not be deprived of you...

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