Dream Warning Poems

("Contagion III", 2020, original pen and ink and oil)

Trigger Warning

From the safe space of my hardened little heart
I send out my love
In waves of conditional...

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Another shift ends. I'm dead on my feet.
Too shagged to even eat.
The word leads (inevitably) to you...
I slipped the timesheets from work today.
Another incident occurred...
Sweetie,...

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When the whistle blows
You combat for your dreams
When the whistle blows again
You retire from your dreams
When the whistle blows for the last time 
You have...

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The Warning!
I dream about dark shadowy figures
They are pulling and clawing at me
 Trying to pull me down into a void 
I wake in a...

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Without Warning
David J Walker

Remembering when
Every weekend 
Was 50 years in the future

Remembering when Love was 
an elusive dream That didn’t mean 
A single thing if...

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I’m dining with my cousin Giles
Who disclosed he’d terrible piles
He’s wriggly and twitchy
Cos his butt’s so itchy
His visage is sad, there’s no smiles

He’d  tried...

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When I Wear Your Favourite Dress 

Oh, I'm so paranoid
I start to shake and take double glances over my shoulder like some psycho's gonna stab...

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TI know I can’t touch the sky
But still I wanna fly
Not to have fun 
Nor to open my bun
I want to see the pain
Which people...

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What he says to you will not seem quite right.
He will insist that you turn out your light.
If you do it, you are truly not...

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Final Prophecy
by Michael R. Burch

Listen to me now and heed my voice;
I am a madman, alone, screaming in the wilderness,
but listen now.

Listen to me now,...

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I never knew a love before


Of you my proudest moments stand
For only I can see
This life was once a jumbled mess
Much more than it should...

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Traveling life's murky waters,

Were these brave men.

My friends in dark jungles.

Dying for many who did not care.

Malaria and typhoid our worst enemies;

Still then, that occasional...

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Walk with me,
in this lonely world,

where hearts are casually broken,
and kind words rarely spoken.

Take my hand,
on this highway of brittle glass,

where love is traded like...

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well now, let’s see, 
if you live in “the land of the
free,” 
you get to see people get blown
away at a higher frequency these days,
because...

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