David Whalen Poems

Don’t let me know
When you’ve thought it over

Forget to tell me when
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If you wish
to understand poets
If you wish
to know what’s in their minds
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I wonder do you think of me
I wonder… as I wonder
About the past
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Lost dreams, sad songs and pain
There’s always payback
And it’s usually not pretty
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Did I ever take
your breath away?
Did I ever cause
Your heart to break?
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I wish you could have read
The Letters that I didn’t write

Would’ve liked for you to have heard
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May we all be blessed
With these three things

Peace, love
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10’ tall Big bluestem…
Once flourished there, now almost gone
Creamy yellow blossoms of Plains wild Indigo
White prairie Phlox and…
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Oft-times our body
seems to be
Much stronger than
our minds and hearts
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An endless parade
Foam tipped waves
rocks battered endlessly
Rank seaweed…
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