More Bittersweet still...

A Marine kneeling in front of a boy
A seven year old boy with hands extended
barely containing his sorrow
Presenting him with a folded flag
With quivering chin, fighting back tears
In acknowledgement that his dad
…Has no tomorrow…

poem by David Whalen
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Ideas

Before our very eyes…

Like helium balloons
Things imbued with gas rise

Like lead balloons
Bad ideas sink like a rock

Like Burst balloons
Can fall From the skies

Like trial balloons
Ideas float and undock...

before our very eyes…

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Loss of Face

I’m an easy touch
It’s commonly said

Especially by my once
Good friend ‘Mike’

Whom I loaned ten thousand dollars
For extensive plastic surgery and now…

I can’t find him to repay me cause
I don’t know what 'Mikey looks like

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Let Us Speak Of Light And Colors

Let us speak of light and colors
Of ephemeral hues and strident tones
Of luminescence that commands
One's eyes to observe it

Of cobalt blues that morph into ashen grey
That in turn then steals away
Into black…
Soft and sensual as velvet

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Sobering Reflections

'Look at those two
sad drunks ol' buddy'
One of these days,
that's what we could be'

My good ol' buddy snorted stout out his nose
Said 'That's the mirror behind the bar
That you're seein' you silly poof!
You're lookin' at you and me! '

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All In Your Mind

Happiness is a choice
It dwells within your mind
You only need to give it voice
It's not so hard to find

Sadness dwells there too
And tis a choice in kind
Whose dwelling choose you
To most often go to?

…After all…
It's all in your mind

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Why Not? (wear jammies all day)

Something about things
Small and furry

Something about things
Gentle in kind

Something about time
In which not to hurry

Things not to allow
To prey on one's mind

Why not be carefree
Laid back and gay (gay?)

Why not wear our
Jammies all day?

poem by David Whalen
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Heart and Soul

Poets are…
lyricists
For which the music…
Is not yet written

Words that wait
Uncertain fate
For songsmith’s
To be smitten

Poets write
The very heart
Songsmiths write
The soul

It takes the two
To both imbue
And make two parts
…a whole..

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David O's thrifty shopping advice

Christmas shopping to me
is like a walk in the park
The method I use is
So easy and slick

But it is best done
late after dark
And requires no money
this simple trick

You simply go out
And do some window shopping
With a mask, a bag,
And a brick

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More American style haius

I home schooled myself
Those were the good ol’days…I gave
Myself straight A’s!

One of God’s lovely
Things…lil’ mossy lakes dimpled
With smiles of rain rings

Don’t let sorrows thrive
The past won’t die as long as
You keep it alive

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