henrythevamp

Writer’s Block

copyright 2025 by Michael Walker

You used to hold me

Now, nothing holds

I am Samuel Taylor Coleridge dry

Drowning in drink

Pacing this zoo of a room

Howling at the simple moon

Selling all my old detritus

Off to the Rejection Store…

December 23

copyright 2025 by Michael Walker

As happy as

A pig

In mud

That is you

At Walmart

Going up

And down

Those

Clotted

Isles

Loading your

Cart

With all the things

You don’t

Want

Or

Need

Cat food for

The

Dog

Halloween masks

At

Christmastime

Cancer

On

A

Stick

As happy as

A pig

In mud

As I

Tag

Along

Wishing there was...
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Sunday

copyright 2025 by Michael Walker

Geese on the lawn

Making a joyful noise

Unto some Lord

Ducks in the pond

Saying

Silent

Prayers…

It’s Sunday

And

The churchbells

Are ringing

Not my worship

Not attending

This is all

Good enough…

Once, When I Was A Kid

copyright 2025 by Michael S Walker

Mrs. Baker

Our next-door neighbor

Had this little picture book

I truly wanted

A souvenir

From the Museum

Of Pompeii

All in Italian

With black and white pictures of

People and animals

Somehow

Violently changed

Into clay.

Such a strange artifact…

I worked three days

In her basement

Sweeping

Shoveling

Hauling 40 years...
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Late December

copyright 2025 by Michael Walker

Everything is

Failure

Everything is

Disaster

A cup of

Soup

While the

Great Chain of Being

Collapses…

What can I do

About this?

What can I say?

I am just a little boy

Drawing pictures

A drunk

In a shooting gallery

What can I proffer

To the car crash

About to happen

The car crash

About to happen...
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An Old Man

(copyright 2025 by Michael Walker)

I am an old man

Dying from hunger

Starving

For the

Moon

And

The

Stars

Starving

For

The ocean

You

Once were.

I am an old man

Dying from hunger

Starving

For the

Sun

And

The

Hills

And

The vine

You

Once were.

I am an old man

Starving

In

A starving

Country

Dying

From a

Plentitude...
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Nothing

copyright 2025 by Michael Walker

I am a

Miscreant

A Devil

A

Nothing

I wrote

A

Bible

Of

Palmipsents

Of tea leaves

Of

Nothing

Who knows

What evil

Lurks

In

The hearts

Of

Men

Or is it

Nothing

Tomorrow

Blows

Cold

Tomorrow

and

Tomorrow

Or is it

Nothing…

I Wrote A Poem

(copyright 2025 by Michael Walker)

I wrote a poem

It took me

40 years

To write

As bloody as the

Illiad

And full of

Typos.

I wrote a poem

It took me

40 years

To write

I wrote it on

The backs of

Envelopes

For overdue

Bills.

I wrote a poem

It took me

40 years

To write

140 sonnets

For...
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Soul Shower

copyright 2025 by Michael Walker

I want a soul shower

Like a baptism.

The world keeps

Presenting its ass

Like some

Obscene

Baboon…

I want a soul shower

A girl

With innocent eyes

A flower

I guess

As I make inane

Small talk

With baristas….

I want Paul Gaugin’s

Vision of

Tahiti

As I buy

Another drink

I want a soul shower

A...
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The Dogs

(copyright 2025 by Michael Walker)

The dogs

The dogs are all

Barking at me today

What is it?

My

DNA?

Some scent on my

Concert

Tee shirt?

But the dogs

Behind their

Gray

Picket

Fences

Don’t like me much

And bark and bark

Like madmen

Maybe they think

I am a cat

Some

Cat-like

Mystery?

Maybe they don’t like

The book

Under my...
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