4 Untitled Poems
Honeysuckle & shadows line the emptied streets
It’s 3 a.m. in Austin and all I feel
Walks with me in search of coffee
The stars perch over shoulder
Keeping a watchful I
Along with spirit animals & trees
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In the dark at the outer edges
The muffled voices of the living
Seep through flowers & trees
Reciting the dreams of the dead
To the earthworms wriggling
Amongst the hollow eye sockets
Of gods
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Collecting worlds in to thought
Cluttering up the immortal youth
With clogged veins & wrinkled form
How is it we cd reject being born
Spirit broken mad uncouth
That drives love in here to rot
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Watching the southern Indiana
Turkey buzzards glide over tree tops
So ancient calm & beautiful
Their flight
Lost in the passionate recycling
If the dead
They with huge black wing
Live content days and nights
In tune with themselves &
The world around them
Forever neglected their due
Their ugly immortality
In the face of BEAUTY
Merritt Waldon born 1974. Lives in Southern Indiana USA.
He has been in many print and online anthologies and journals he has five books published. Oracles From A Strange Fire by Merritt Waldon & Ron Whitehead published by Cajun Mutt Press.Pistol City Blues published by Dead man's Press Ink. Madison Street Screams & Smoke Break Poems published by Dead man's Press Ink. Recovering Roar:Haiku and other small poems published by Dumpster Fire Press.Poems by Sourav Sarkar and Merritt Waldon published by Cooch Behar. A regular on Americans and others anthologies. A permanent member of Whisky City Press..also a regular of Sparring with Beatnik Ghosts.
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