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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.

Amy

copyright 2025 by Michael Walker

She was the beehive queen

And she sang

With a voice

That had never

Been

Seen

She was

Fragile

And troubled

And bought

And

Sold

And she sang

With a voice

That had never

Been

Seen

Frank

Put her

On the map

Black

Put her

In the

Black

And she joined

That stupid club

The one with Jimi

And...
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BCE

Copyright 2025 by Michael Walker

A flower flew off

Became a butterfly

Flew to a forest

That became

A field of grass

It was the month of August

But it was all

All

Timeless

A flower flew off

Became

A

butterfly

A flower flew off

Became a butterfly

Scattered my

Scattered thoughts

Up into

A

Perfect

Blue

Sky

Before

The Common

Era

A flower...
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I am an old man

On a bicycle

Pedalling against

The juggernauts

Perhaps

I have always been

An old man

On a bicycle

Pedalling

To the Beat

Of a different

Drummer

Even

When I was young

While bodies

Collided

On various

Grids

And my old man tore his hair out

Over lead

Yes

An old man

On a

Bicycle

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