Walkabout Poems | Examples


Premium MemberWalkabout

through your looking glass
redefine your prospects
reroute all efforts
stay an undiscovered self
reaffirm life's terms within
Categories: walkabout, destiny, education, fate, future,
Form: Tanka

Premium MemberWalkabout With Death

I've been on a walkabout with death
He keeps trying for my last breath

But I will not go gently or quietly anywhere
Anywhere I want, most wouldn't dare

He just took my uncle, and is coming for my friend
I got in the truck and took him to face his end

They say I don't know my place
To fall in line, that's the disgrace

They want to send me away again
To try and see where my mind has been
And why I'm layered with sin

It'll be their turn
To see if they can learn

I do not hide
What I am inside
Categories: walkabout, dark, death, death of
Form: Rhyme


Premium MemberWalkabout

Whimsically worry free

Always open to new possibilities as they arise

Looking toward the sun, even in the rain

Kangaroos leaping across your path, delighting you.

Always ready, hyper-vigilant of danger

Being true to your own glorious soul self

Outside in the wonderful keen of nature

United with the elements

Turning into yourself
Categories: walkabout, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Acrostic

Walkabout

The early morning rising of the sun
    comes quiet and stealth like
    high up in the tree tops.
Long before the dawn, birds sing out
    welcoming, greeting the new day.
Creatures great and small awake
    to participate in the thriving life of the garden,
    filled with lush flowers perfuming the air.
Suddenly blinding, the sun appears
    high in the powdered sky, brilliant burning hot.
A sultry May walk about along the garden edge
    mystifies and awes the eye, blessing the morning
    with unimaginable blossoms of color and fragrances.
Content, marveling at the revelation 
     of bounteous growth, I pause.
Breathing deeply in, I take it all in
     with its hopes and dreams and promise of life
     and its splendor and magnificence
I am filled with gratitude
     that I am caretaker to this miraculous gift of God.
Categories: walkabout, beauty, garden, morning, nature,
Form: Free verse

My Walkabout...

The nights were long
and my days seem short
had to do something
so I left my port

A one-way ticket
on a greyhound bus
a compelling journey
inner feeling must trust

first stop,Durango
high in the Rockies
a couple of days hiking
loud thunder was shocking

Next stop,was Gallup
from here,began my walk about
unsure of destination
first step began my route

Halfway to nowhere
dropped my load,to look around
sensational insight
revelation was found

Looked back toward beginning
so distant,out of sight
looked ahead for the end
no end to my flight

Sort of like life
past and future,uncertain
adventerous journeys
once removed from our curtain

continued my walk
through the mountains of Arizona
amazing sights
spent the night all alone-a

Under a canopy of stars
cool evening wind
no city lights
a universe with no end

Infinity came calling
understanding to follow
somewhere hides destiny
heartsongs sung hallowed.....
Categories: walkabout, adventure, introspection, nature, peace,
Form: Free verse


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