NEW WAVE ASCENDS
... NEW WAVE ASCENDS
Workers waul at leaders sold
who rush to airports cold
in hospitals wan women wallow
tattered children nothing to swallow
ideals trickling through untilled soil
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Categories:
untilled, 12th grade, change, earth,
Form: Couplet
Conquered, Part III
......And come the day she had free reign, provided she not leave,
no heavy tasks upon her, she had worked more while still free.
She explored the whole of the keep, she ready his ancient books,
went...
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Categories:
untilled, change, confusion, depression, desire,
Form: Epic
The First Daffodil
...In the Spring
memories blow like wind
through the corners of my soul
replacing the dark winter
which time has now beset
Playing its distant lute
change is thrust upon me
rebirthing what fall h...
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Categories:
untilled, spring,
Form: Free verse
Authentic Voices
...AUTHENTIC VOICES
sources of memory
in haunting musicality
celebrating sensuality
&pleasure
so remarkable
enchanting
engrossing
in an untilled terrain
such modest
proposals combine
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Categories:
untilled, poetry,
Form: Other
November Lost
...There seems little hope when the tires won't hold air.
Did God forsake us somewhere,
along the long and dusty path?
you and I, got wires crossed in despair...
left to suffer this day alone,
in ...
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Categories:
untilled, lost, november,
Form: Rhyme
Garden of Meager Harvest
...Garden of a Meager Harvest
By David J Walker
The rusted remains
of the old farm truck
Remain on the untilled patch
of prairie grass plains
as long as I
can remember
The old Farma...
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Categories:
untilled, garden,
Form: Rhyme
Patriotic Song
...The ignorance servitude harnesses
The zero burdened grave race
That forbid shaving sovereign hairs
Packed close in considerable layers
Underneath national flagpoles
lay the maiden demands in b...
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Categories:
untilled, africa, angst, betrayal, bullying,
Form: Didactic
Watching Victoria Legrand Perform 'Elegy To the Void'
...Listen: The Lyrical Lilt
that lilac
and lavender
lend to our language,
like leased luggage purposefully lost,
unrolls from lifted
tongue
to level the valley
and shallow
the depths of the g...
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Categories:
untilled, death, introspection, music,
Form: Free verse
Callow Billow
...Hollow as a crooked pipe conducting waste to the corroded sewer
Vacant and obscure like a Freudian void on a cold lavatory seat
Hollow as a piper’s flute waiting for nimble charming fingers
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Categories:
untilled, dark,
Form: Free verse
Adrift
...mirrors refract of blue, grays and greens
molded together, patchwork of leans
drowning withouts more than floating withins
mindsided promises, neglectful of ends
dripdry conundrums in, neat stagn...
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Categories:
untilled, analogy, divorce, eulogy, imagery,
Form: Free verse
Scantily-Clad In the Garden of S W Eden
...SCANTILY-CLAD in the GARDEN of S W EDEN
Here I stand, all alone, scantily-clad in the garden of S W EDEN.
Wondering if the Original Garden still remains untilled and uneven.
Wondering how that S...
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Categories:
untilled, adventure, beauty, betrayal, bible,
Form: Verse
Orchards of Opportunity
...Orchards of Opportunity
Alone in the orchard of opportunities
surveying the ripened potential
I pondered the fruitful labor of others
enviously sniffing the succulence of success.
Knowing t...
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Categories:
untilled, muse, success,
Form: Verse
Untilled Ground
...UNTILLED GROUND
untilled ground however rich
produces only prickly thorns
like the minds of simple men
never giving thought to their
steps
rash behaviour hasty choices
acting w...
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Categories:
untilled, christian,
Form: Free verse
Gardens
...Gardens
A lovely Tomato, to brighten up my days.
A beautiful Sun Flower, to lighten my ways.
A Rose, of brilliant passions to delight my dreams.
A haunting – nightmare – pain filled thorns – strea...
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Categories:
untilled, death, life, sun,
Form: Rhyme
Out On High
...I have run out of high
I begin to crawl
the bottom was my destination
it was what I desired
as it was common to man
for it I prepared
of it I now let go
S...
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Categories:
untilled, allegory, christian, god, god,
Form: Prose
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