Readers Are Judge And Jury
Some poems
like people, plans and knives
Just don’t cut it
And live abbreviated lives
For you readers are the jury
To judge what should live and compete
No matter what the poet thinks
If the hits show that the poem stinks
Then the writer should, without a blink
Accept your verdict, As do I…
And hit delete
poem by David Whalen
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If you can see it... be it
See the lines on time worn faces
Be the veins in Autumn’s leaves
See the crowd…be the spaces
See the clover…be the bees
See the shore… misty places
Be the sand, cleansed by the seas
Tell us of the intrinsic traces
While we listen at your knees
See the world…give us a look
Through your eyes…be a book
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Like Helium Balloons
Before our very eyes…
Like helium balloons
Ideas imbued with passion rise
Like lead balloons
Bad ideas sink like a rock
Like Burst balloons
That fragment before one’s eyes
Like trial balloons
Ideas conceived, then undock
And float away
Like lover’s sighs…
Like helium balloons
before our very eyes…
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The Gravity of Blood
The gravity of blood
Holds tight the satellites
Of family and
The ties that bind
Free will… be an illusion
An orbit of confusion
For the gravity of blood
Tis not random… nor tis blind
In the end we're naught but copies
Cast afar in the familial flood
Rejoined anon by the cosmic eddies
And the gravity of blood
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The truest test
The rest and the best
Of life yet lies before you
So many things to see
So many things to do
So many things to savor
To eyes open wide in wonder
Strange textures and new flavors
Old habits cast asunder
Age is of no matter
Be the spirit strong and true
For the very best, the truest test
Of life… yet lies before you
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If you want to make God laugh
Plan out your future
Put your ducks in a row
Put your life to a schedule
And reap what you sow
Put things in motion
That’ll guide you through life
All the checks and balances
To belay stress and strife
You can lay out your life
Do all that you can
But if you really want to make God laugh….
…….have a plan…..
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Bittersweet is age
In the end, we all die but once.
Most die but one time and one time alone.
But what tempers the sweetness of living long
Is the bitter sweetness
That the aged wearily carry to their grave.
The fact is, that the aged will have died
Many times over in their life
While the young and the innocent
…have to die only once…
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No Respect
I really don’t get no respect
I really almost never do
Just read a little bit further
And you’ll see how much that’s true
My shrink told me I was crazy as a drunken pigeon
So I righteously told him I wanted a second opinion
“O.K.” said he… quite candidly
“You’re not only crazy…You’re butt ugly too! ”
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Older Than dirt, Dumb As A Rock
Older than dirt
Dumb as a rock
That’s what I’ve been called
And it comes as no shock
Cause I have gotten older
And I have gotten dumber
And I possibly could have seen
My very last summer
But I don’t regret getting’ dumber
And I know getting’ older is tough
What I do regret tho’…
is not getting’ enough
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Fairy Lanterns of Summer
From deep within…
The Heart of summer,
Fairy lanterns from…
within and over
From thickets dark
Where wee creatures slumber
To ramparts of scent…from
great fields of clover
Fireflies flashing…Messages cryptic
Winking, blinking, oer field and fen
There... but for a moment…magic!
For just a moment…Then gone again
poem by David Whalen
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