Tag: poetry
member name: David W.
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August 25, 2009 12:46 PM EDT --
FEATHERED SEASONS FLOWN
© 2009 by David Wainland
Sailing on the feathered wings of summer past
Starts the turn of another autumn season
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May 29, 2009 02:31 PM EDT --
MEMOIRS ARE:
An alliterated haiku
© 2009 By David Wainland
Picture past pathos,
pain projected purposely,
perfectly . . .
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January 07, 2009 11:19 AM EST --
Dedicated to my mother-in-law who passed away seven years ago . She was a victim of a stroke, incapable of speech, eating, walking. Inside, she was alive. Tillie passed within the year.
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April 09, 2008 09:45 PM EDT --
WRITTEN THE NIGHT OF A LUNAR ECLIPSE
The moon this night
Our earth shall pass.
Clear skies will yield
To darkened grass.
Eclipse the light
Terra's . . .
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September 25, 2008 10:44 AM EDT --
© by David Wainland
There is a time in the early hours
when black sky gives way to morning gray.
The moon hangs low and silver in the horizon
and the brightest . . .
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June 02, 2009 01:46 PM EDT --
PIECES ON THE BEACH
© 2009 by David Wainland
Sand, beach sand
Granules of time
Caressed by the sea
Carried to the shore
Where they . . .
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August 13, 2009 10:07 AM EDT --
I am back in Florida and wrote this my last night in New Jersey
Saying Goodbye to the Tin Man
As told in the Wizard of Oz
© 2009 . . .
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August 31, 2009 09:10 PM EDT --
SLIGHTLY BITTEN
© 2009 by David Wainland
Born before our liberty embraced
Another land her lineage traced
I was young and she was . . .
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September 12, 2009 02:19 PM EDT --
SEPTEMBER 13 IS OUR 45TH ANNIVERSARY
WE ARE CELBRATING TODAY, TONIGHT AND ALL DAY TOMORROW
PEACE TO YOU ALL, MY GATHER FRIENDS
IF ONLY
FOR JAMIE . . .
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September 23, 2009 05:15 PM EDT --
Our holiday, Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, is approaching. It is the day we repent for our sins. It is also a day we remember our lost family. Besides reciting prayers in temple, many . . .
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January 21, 2009 12:43 PM EST --
MY NAME IS DAVID
By David Wainland © 2009
I am first-born,
they named me David,
after a grandfather,
I never met,
a mark of respect,
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May 28, 2009 11:22 AM EDT --
SPIRIT IN THE NIGHT
© 2009 by David Wainland
The woman awakes,
fed by the chill in the air
called by a ghostly apparition.
Sleep is gone for . . .
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April 30, 2008 09:10 AM EDT --
© David Wainland 2008
You tell me to sit still when I cannot and sneer
at the noise my movements create.
Then you try to quiet me
because you think you . . .
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October 14, 2008 02:24 PM EDT --
FRUSTRATED AUTHOR
A limerick
© David Wainland 2008
This limerick relates to my past
saving the best for the last.
Tonight, writing's no fun, . . .
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October 15, 2008 12:34 PM EDT --
From my archives and written after the 2004 Indonesian tsunami.
© David Wainland 2004
The child, a little girl
Walks a shattered beach
Surrounded . . .
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September 07, 2008 02:44 PM EDT --
By David Wainland © 2008
"It was a dark and stormy night...".
and yes, I admit this start's not right.
But if you choose to dump or toss . . .
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October 31, 2008 11:24 AM EDT --
Written when I was fourteen years old.
© David Wainland 2008
Composed in 1954
One day as the sun was setting
and leaving the purple sky
The colors I saw . . .
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January 06, 2009 02:28 PM EST --
© 2009 David Wainland
Traffic lights chirping like crickets
two blocks away the el rumbles
Cars beep and belch carbon
in-between kids play marbles . . .
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September 29, 2008 11:44 AM EDT --
Our holiday, Rosh Hashanna , the Jewish New Year, begins at sundown tonight, 9/29/08. As a mark of respect and tradition we visited our son's grave yesterday morning . This poem . . .
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October 06, 2008 10:24 PM EDT --
© David Wainland 2008
I check my watch many times a day
how is it the hands slow down in anticipation
and speed up in moments of dread
Days, weeks, . . .
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