An Elderly Lady I Know
Copyright 2022 by Michael Walker
Her eyes
Those rapacious
Cave dwellers
Hunt for more light
As the sun prepares
To take
Its final bow
They hunt
For a bloom child
Of flowers
Something she never grew
In all her
Many
Window boxes.
She craves
More paintings
More quilts
More
LIGHT
But bats have come
To roost
In her eyes
Rain...
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Walt Whitman
Copyright 2023 by Michael Walker
Walt Whitman went forth one day
Out in Brooklyn at the break of day
Walt Whitman went forth one day
A blue cathedral
And an urge to pray
Say hello to the ferry driver
Say hello to the river
Say hello to all the diamonds
Dancing free
In the sky…
Walt Whitman went forth one day
Manhattan yeah...
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Epitaph For A Working Man
2023 by Michael S. Walker
Bing Crosby said
That was a
Good game of golf
Let's go
Get a Coke
And then
He died …
As good an epitaph
As any
A day in the sun
With friends
A day with laughter
And refreshment.
I do not think
My own
Epitaph
Will be so
Light-hearted
More like
"I can't lift...
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Night Bus
Copyright 2023 by Michael Walker
I was on a night bus
In South Carolina
South of
No North
I thought
As I stared out the window…
And there was a
Black guy
Sitting across
The aisle from me
Surreptitiously
Drinking from a
Brown
Paper bag…
He told me he was bound
Bound for
New York City
"Gonna be a big star"
He said...
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Shameless
(Copyright 2023 by Michael S. Walker)
She’s so shameless
Nothing makes her wince
Inside the Matrix.
Every day she goes and
Does her makeup.
And does the things
Yeah, she has to do.
She’s so shameless
With everything out there
Falling around her.
Every day she goes
And plays a flower.
Does the shameless things
She has to do.
Shameless walkin’ in the sun...
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On Acting
(Copyright 2023 by Michael Walker)
And there they all are
All the bit players
Spitting their
Rote prayers
They populate
The skies…
They lack
All conviction…
There they all are
Mother and Father
Beast and
Burden.
Priests and
Debutantes…
In Sixty-one years
I never learned the language
I never learned to enter
On time
I thought I was some prince
Wringing his hands...
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Oh to want
Sneakers that light up
And Santa Claus
And fireworks…
Oh to see
A giraffe for the first time
Or a lion
Or penguins…
Oh to be excited
By snow
And snow angels
And snow men…
Oh to ride a trike
Wearing nothing
But Hawaiian lais
And Mardis Gras
Beads…
Oh to have a birthday
With birthday cake
And candles…
Oh to live...
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Sugar
Copyright 2023 by Michael Walker
She wore a yellow sundress
With flowers on the hem
She said her name was Amber Lee
And could I be her friend?
I was drunker than the Middle Ages
Falling on the bar
And so with little small talk
I stumbled to her car
Where she said Sugar Sugar
Buy me something sweet.
We rode out to the...
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Smitten
Copyright 2023 by Michael Walker
I met her in high school
She was working at Aldi's
And it didn't take long
'Til we were smitten
We'd drive down to Piedmont
Where there was a stone quarry
And we kiss in the moonlight
We were so smitten
Now I'd like to know
Where we are today
And I'd like to know
Who I am tonight...
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When I see you again
It'll be spring I hope my little one
You'll be wearing that dress that you wore
When we met in the sun
When I see you again
History will be the green in the trees
And you'll smile
And put me at my ease
When I see you again
We'll go sit by the creek like we did
And you'll...
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