David Alexander Walker: Poems

Sep 2012 · 472

She

David Alexander Walker Sep 2012

She

And when I saw her
Eyes shining, looking at me
No one else would do

Sep 2012 · 558

Salud Lucio!

David Alexander Walker Sep 2012

Salud Lucio!

Hola Amigo!
It's hot and you've got a drink
Hope it's not water

Sep 2012 · 3.4k

Good Morning

David Alexander Walker Sep 2012

Good Morning

Powder blue and clear skies
Streaming chrome yellow sunlight
Good morning my love

Sep 2012 · 494

It Rains

David Alexander Walker Sep 2012

It Rains

Forgive my being
A little melancholy
It rains on some days

Sep 2012 · 728

My Voice

David Alexander Walker Sep 2012

My Voice

No shandy drinking
Ivory tower pedants
Will dictate to me

Sep 2012 · 668

The Grand Life

David Alexander Walker Sep 2012

The Grand Life

My Darling, my Child!
My Little Baby Dumpling!
May Your Child grow true!

Sep 2012 · 880

Fare thee well

David Alexander Walker Sep 2012

Fare thee well

Remember that we
Are all Bozos on this bus
Laugh, that's the ticket!

Sep 2012 · 1.3k

The Charming Trickster

David Alexander Walker Sep 2012

The Charming Trickster

You are looking at
Me with that sly smile again
I wonder, but you don't

Sep 2012 · 686

Conciousness

David Alexander Walker Sep 2012

Conciousness

Cosmologists ask
Is the Universe concious?
Why yes! You and me!

Sep 2012 · 977

Last night

David Alexander Walker Sep 2012

Last night

These candles are cold
With frozen stalactite beards
But love blazed last night

Sep 2012 · 736

A Salute to the Megalomaniacs

David Alexander Walker Sep 2012

A Salute to the Megalomaniacs

For I am the King!
The power and the glory!
And I eat Babies!

Sep 2012 · 670

A prelude to grief

David Alexander Walker Sep 2012

A prelude to grief

She lay still, eyes fixed
But then her eyes lit and she
Said:" I will die soon."

Sep 2012 · 663

Alight

David Alexander Walker Sep 2012

Alight

Though this sun lowers
In the sky and falls toward
Winter, I am bright

Sep 2012 · 697

Lunacy

David Alexander Walker Sep 2012

Lunacy

So dark is this path
Hands out, I stumble on it
Reaching for the moon

Sep 2012 · 907

The black cricket

David Alexander Walker Sep 2012

The black cricket

The black cricket knew
When late summer came around
And sang a love dirge

Sep 2012 · 556

Death's Toll

David Alexander Walker Sep 2012

Death's Toll

When my last thoughts fall
Like coins through Charon's digits
Who will hear them ring

Sep 2012 · 2.8k

Disco Cougar

David Alexander Walker Sep 2012

Disco Cougar

In miniskirt she
Dances, streaked hair and all that
but oh, she is old!

Sep 2012 · 618

Prisoner of love

David Alexander Walker Sep 2012

Prisoner of love

Imprisoned by love
With sweet cupid the jailer
Never felt so free

Sep 2012 · 496

Transit

David Alexander Walker Sep 2012

Transit

Picked up the pieces
Glued them tight within my breast
And caught the next bus

Sep 2012 · 383

The call

David Alexander Walker Sep 2012

The call

you called me today
from somewhere so faraway
I held my phone close

Sep 2012 · 401

Something delectable

David Alexander Walker Sep 2012

Something delectable

I am looking for
Something delectable or
perhaps a stiff drink

Sep 2012 · 979

Happy accident

David Alexander Walker Sep 2012

Happy accident

I cannot forget
When I first laid eyes on her
Watch out idiot!

Sep 2012 · 448

Yes

David Alexander Walker Sep 2012

Yes

Then she cocked her head
Eying close my outstretched hand
And winked to say "Yes!"

Sep 2012 · 3.7k

Pollination

David Alexander Walker Sep 2012

Pollination

She is a flower
And I am a honeybee
Nuzzling her petals

Sep 2012 · 597

Winter's Sting

David Alexander Walker Sep 2012

Winter's Sting

Worker Bees buzz
Filling combs with sweet honey
To dull Winter's sting

Sep 2012 · 693

Baby Spring

David Alexander Walker Sep 2012

Baby Spring

Fall comes and harvest
Fields lay pregnant and heavy
Full of baby spring

Sep 2012 · 1.5k

Moderation

David Alexander Walker Sep 2012

Moderation

Try to separate
The wheat from the chaff of life
But don't try too hard

Sep 2012 · 667

Coastal Memory

David Alexander Walker Sep 2012

Coastal Memory

When I was a boy
Visiting my Grandfather
Foghorns filled my dreams

Sep 2012 · 1.7k

Hot Music

David Alexander Walker Sep 2012

Hot Music

At the Firemen's Club
Dancing to the saxophone
Beer puts the fire out

Sep 2012 · 2.7k

The Harem

David Alexander Walker Sep 2012

The Harem

Lazing peonies
Smooth petaled, plump and blushing
Hummingbird's harem

Sep 2012 · 1.6k

The Sweetest Smell

David Alexander Walker Sep 2012

The Sweetest Smell

Roses by the path
Pretty pink and small flowered
Have the sweetest smell

Sep 2012 · 566

The Mute

David Alexander Walker Sep 2012

The Mute

He talks with his hands
Fingers flutter and palms slap
Digits full of love

Sep 2012 · 455

Poetry

David Alexander Walker Sep 2012

Poetry

Thought and emotion
Combined, distilled and served up
With text, neat and dry

Sep 2012 · 502

At First Sight

David Alexander Walker Sep 2012

At First Sight

I only glimpsed her
Beautiful, with sad blue eyes
And deeply I fell

Sep 2012 · 1.7k

Jen

David Alexander Walker Sep 2012

Jen

She is visiting
Blue eyed as a Siamese
she curls up and purrs

Sep 2012 · 954

Evil Lurks

David Alexander Walker Sep 2012

Evil Lurks

Yes, Evil still lurks
In this old and sweet world
Wearing Armani

Sep 2012 · 399

She Smiled

David Alexander Walker Sep 2012

She Smiled

The rain was heavy
It pelted down hard and fast
She smiled, the sun broke

Sep 2012 · 932

The Tenderness of Love

David Alexander Walker Sep 2012

The Tenderness of Love

I cannot but think
That the tenderness of love
Has no parallel

Sep 2012 · 351

The Bees Touch

David Alexander Walker Sep 2012

The Bees Touch

The garden flowers
Behind their picket fences
Long for the Bees touch

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