Five Untitled Poems by Merritt Waldon

 

In mind's eye music plays 

A druid does fly over bedlam 

Catalpa leaves huge as faces 

In the dark their sway like 

Voices sing the new life  

Into collaboration w shadow 

Bouncing around 3.a.m. rooms 

Somewhere in Middle America 

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Time to love  

Time for truth  

Time for the dying  

Of silly ways 

Time to understand 

Decay  

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All tomorrow's parties  

Lived in one night  

Once back in 1992 

With you 

Now lost to the tides  

Of madness & 

Civilization 

Throbbing beneath 

Your legs 

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Tonight, under the boughs of trees  

Along darkening city streets watching the glow of an orange crescent moon 

 

I ride 

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Follow me friends 

Can you see any futures 

Not so dimmed 

By some form  

Of hatred 

 

Why so dim  

Why so grim 

 

America 

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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. He is a regular in American and others anthologies. A permanent member of Whisky City Press..he is also a regular of Sparring with Beatnik Ghosts.