The People
(Copyright 2024 by Michael Walker)
The people who worry
Live in the past
Or the future
Never realizing
That the readiness
Is everything.
The people who hunger
Eat in the past
Or the future
Never realizing
That the table is laid out
With food enough
For twenty.
The people who wage war
Draw maps of the past
Or the future
Never realizing
That...
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henrythevamp:
Probably need to expand this

My Broken Body

Copyright 2024 by Michael Walker


My broken body

The feet like knives

The shoulder

Throbbing

The deep well of

Constant

Coughing

I will never obtain

The spices I was

After

Never see

India

Or

China

The Silk Road

With its

Soft touch

And

Breezes

No epiphany

No peace

The spirit is willing

But the flesh

The flesh

Is weak.

Oh yes

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I just wanted SG community to recognize the awesomeness of this gal @jadestone. She is really is one of the pillars of this freaky little community imo. Her beauty, her creativity, her humor and energy are (in equal parts) incomparable. She finally became pink not so very long ago but that has not stopped her from helping other hopefuls realize that goal. She truly is...
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@jadestone I know you are but what am I?
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When I'm With You
(Copyright 2023 by Michael Walker)
Once I played a rocking show
In some long gone bar
I whirled around, a hurricane
With my Charvel guitar
The crowd was out the door that night
They had to turn them away
They whistled clapped and stamped their feet
To every anthem that we played
Man that was the best of times
Before the...
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Once Upon A Time

Copyright 2023 by Michael Walker

(For all the old farts I know. You know who you are.)


Once-upon-a-time

Everyone else was older

And now

They are younger…

I marvel

At certain things

Some Internet blogger

Writing about

The Moon landing

As if everyone who marveled

At that marvel

Now we're dead…

Or some teenagers on You Tube

Mulling over the mechanics...
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Mortality

Copyright 2023 by Michael Walker



All of our heroes will die soon

And our non-heroes too

Neil Young

And that kid in fourth grade

Who dipped your

Clip-on tie

Into a muddy

Street puddle

They both will die

Soon

And every day

We try to make the days last

A little longer

We flail about

Like those

Used-Car

Stick balloons

We work and play...
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Phantom Limb

Copyright 2023 by Michael Walker


My guitar is

My phantom limb

They cut it away from me

I pawned it

I no longer play it.

My guitar

That red Charvel

With the single -coil

Pickups…

I can still feel it

That power

Strapped to my body

The opening figure

Of "Sonic Reducer"

In Ferrari red.

I was going to take over the world...
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