Lost Walker Poems

loud cracks and creaks permeate the silence
inferno’s roar is heard in keen ears of wildlife
terror is felt throughout the forest
animals flee, but many do not...

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There’s the tightrope for you to walk, wire walker —

defying the gravity of reality and the reality of gravity
you know damn well he won't catch...

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Bruce

A lumbering man, 
audibly achily, stepped to the
floor’s center.
Had there been a spotlight, he’d’a shone.

His arms unfurled.
His hips spun.
His soles, silent
as he padded here,
then twisted...

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a walker, I.


A walker fancying himself
a hiker, on a walk, self-narrated as
an expedition.

The incline is gentle, consistent,
insistent and yet i insist,
as i am inclined to...

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The Walker

He woke up when a nurse at the old folks home, kissed him,
because it was his eighties birthday, he knew this could
not be true...

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John had a motorcycle crash four years back, 
And lost partial use of his legs and right arm, 
But found inspiration in Stutzman, not an...

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Verlena S. Walker

Vivacious being
Earthly skin tone
Reality of the world
Living for the moment
Entertained by her imagination
Never lost in thought
All aspects of life are focal points.

(S.) ensual...

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You are on cloud nine it must be so great
I look up in awe as I sit on eight

Eight is okay it's better than seven
compared...

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This poem is in a style called haibun which uses prose to tell a story, with haiku places
within to bring the story deeper. The haiku...

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