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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felicity:
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Lady Godiva

copyright 2025 by Michael Walker

Lady Godiva came to see me

Riding on a great white horse

Lady Godiva came to see me

Wearing nothin’ but the skin

For the sin we are in

Lady Godiva came to see me

She said I’m not got gonna disappear

From view

Lady Godiva came to see me

Her hair a fire

In the tepid sun...
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Art (For Matisse)

copyright 2025 by Michael Walker

I will wake up

And paint with scissors

If that is

What it takes

This is

A blessed day

And these are

The materials

God has

Given me

I can no longer paint

I paint

With scissors

And paper

I roll myself into a room

And begin

Once

Again ..

A Little Peace

(copyright 2025 by Michael Walker)

I am just looking for

A little peace

Mon vieux

Here

At the top

Of

The stairs

A little peace

While

The dogs

Bark

At their

Shadows

And the ghosts

Gibber

In their

Shrouds

A little peace

Not to be

Not to

Be

Enlighten me gods

A little village house

By the sea

A loaf of bread...
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Off Stage

copyright 2025 by Michael Walker

Why is it

Everything important to me

Seems to happen

Off Stage?

Poetry

Religion

Community

While I stand

Looking out at

Darkness

Fumbling lines

I do not believe

Wearing

An ill-fitting

Costume

The pants

About to fall down.

A lover once

Said to me

You have a lot of talent

But you do not

Take care of

Business...
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Play

copyright 2025 by Michael Walker

Play is not money

Play is not work

Play is shining in the sunshine

Of Play.

Maybe a resounding gong

Or a clanging cymbal

I do not believe

They can move mountains

But what of that

Bang a gong

Get it on

Picasso tried to sing

Over and over

Like he

Was three…

Kayak Poem

(copyright 2025 by Michael Walker)

I take my kayak

To the

Lake

Early morning

Headed

For the dam…

A silver mist

Rises up

Over everything

Cattle offstage

Lowing…

I dip my paddle

Into the

Placid water

Relishing this time

Before

The speed boats

And the skiers…

Overhead

One monument

A dead log

Stuck high

In the fork of a tree

From some winter...
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Felicity (copyright 2025 by Michael Walker)

It was warm and now

It is cold.

The trees are white

With blossoms

The ground is white

With snow

Ohio weather in a nutshell

April Fools

As a month-long show…

I wish I was in Florianopolis

Though it's almost winter there

With some beauty

Whose smile never wavers

Pretty sure

She would keep me warm.