David Whalen Poems

A candle… a pen
A glass of honeyed brandy
Close at hand
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Eagles now sag
Where once they
Proudly soared
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Problem dark? …Blessing
Brighter? …oft-times written words
Outlive the writer!
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Don’t give me gifts
For I have no need

Give me, in their stead
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A bat and a ball cost a dollar ten
The bat cost one dollar more than the ball.
Pray tell, how much does the ball cost?
How quickly the answer seems to fall!
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Premise:
All roses are flowers
Some flowers fade quickly
Some have stems smooth
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Confidence, …‘shrinks’ tell us
is only an illusion
Reflecting only, the facts and feeling
At, and of, a particular time
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Give me Nature, my dog,
My parrokeets…
For company as I grow older
And more feeble
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Now to smell
the flowers
Alone
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I would see the old lady in the halls where I did volunteer work.
About eighty plus years old, with the bent over shuffle of the very old or very feeble.Pushing her walker laboriously, yet with determination as she went to her appointments.

I stopped often to talk to her, usually in the cafeteria where she had her favorite spot.
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