David Whalen Poems

If I could but somehow…
Roll back time
Could I once again
Feel your warm breath gently brush my ear
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I am as transient as,
And no more enduring…
Than the life and times
of the smallest insect
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I home schooled myself
Those were the good ol’days…I gave
Myself straight A’s!
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Trees sugarcoated
In snow all around
In air so cold
And desert dry…
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“Why can’t we go in daddy”
“Maybe another time sweetie”
“Dad, what happened to rags? ”
“He’s found a good home I think”
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In my poetic life
I’ve gained a measure
of celebrity
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One more year to change…
One less year to do it in
Start now…don’t give in
One more chance
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Not all women be sweet
Nor be all women Tiny…
Some seem to me,
To be fresh and beautiful
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They wear suede coats
Of stained leather, torn and worn
Drive battered ol’ pickups
Ride horses in the morn’
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