walRU Most Viewed Poems

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the sea be it in the tumble aft the winch or out the bow in winter's pinch my heart oft seeks the raven tide in floating cabin I reside bearded,...	649	5	0	Apr 2019	Apr 2019	Apr 23
the wild road Hearts? yes be they a bell still dimly all a chime though faint and pure it sleeps a'rest neath the fraying canvass of time yet what...	597	3	0	Oct 2019	Nov 2019	Apr 26
wrapped hands all I was given was strength a dull and blunted tool I stare out at beauty with the clarity of a fool all I was given was ferocity a rulebook w...	594	6	0	Aug 2019	Aug 2019	Apr 30
roads and all well heaven knows and heaven lies I'm driving down this road under stationary skies distances are vast I can see no end it's easy just to c...	543	13	0	Mar 2019	Jul 2019	Apr 28
rusted trucks carrie walked out of the diner.. her shift was nearing its end.. and the trees made love in the darkness.. and her eyes to a smile did pretend talk...	514	7	0	Mar 2019	Jul 2019	Apr 30
Dante: nature is the art of God (or the unwitting brilliance of someone who didn't know it) you never walked.. 'twas more the curve of the earth.. found a mooring.. in the shape o...	480	8	0	Apr 2019	Apr 2019	Apr 29
courage when the clinker fails in the boards of your heart when the gunnells dip and you lose your chart when you sail alone through the seas of ste...	479	4	0	Mar 2019	Apr 2019	Apr 30
notes on a woman you know the summer's fading.. and the night is getting cold.. there's an east wind in the harbour.. and lord knows I'm getting old.. and my work it t...	457	8	0	Mar 2019	Apr 2019	Apr 4

wandering anger I met her in the winter.. in a bar upon the hill.. when the dark was carved from starlight.. and the moon had paid the bill I came in from the wil...	451	8	0	Mar 2019	May 2019	Apr 8
ballad of a backwards playing jukebox I'm going down to the record station.. I'm gonna buy me a backwards jukebox.. I'm going to play all my favourite songs wearing nothing.. but my hat an...	451	14	0	Apr 2019	Apr 2019	Apr 30
stay the course, girl for Vanessa...	442	4	0	Apr 2019	Aug 2020	Apr 25
summer's end summer goodbye next year we'll fly she told me... when leaves turn to gold and the whole world gets cold and snows be.. there's a scar in my...	441	3	0	Aug 2019	Aug 2019	Apr 28
girl from elsewhere there'll be people on sundays standing in doorways praying to statues they want to believe her face amongst many a sunflowered penny shined...	424	4	0	Aug 2019	Sep 2019	Apr 26
the blue whale we tracked it with technology we fixed a tracing ring in the hope of reading data the haunted click to sing we followed her in boats she pitche...	422	4	0	Aug 2019	Aug 2019	Apr 26
the girl in the poster they said misfortune stalked you.. they said that life was hard in the genetic school of poker you were dealt the hardest card a rogue gene: yo...	420	5	0	Jul 2019	Jul 2019	Apr 30
trucks, waitresses and dockyards the dark swam down from the ceiling.. to a world all studded with stars and she turned the key in her pickup.. and drove home like all the rest of...	417	4	0	Jan 2019	May 2019	5 mins ago
silent highway I see missed steps along the silent highway.. forgotten by the sound of endless cars.. how can a soul of your enduring conscience.. compete with all t...	415	8	0	Apr 2019	Jun 2019	Apr 26
walrus a white cloud of teeth approaches looks.. and reconsiders 02:03 at the nightclub a confrontation I work the door a struggle we trade I r...	414	1	0	Sep 2019	Sep 2019	Apr 26
some nights when the river is gentle when sound runs and sighs when starlight is music when I first heard your lies your blonde hair silk curtains fell...	413	4	0	Jul 2019	Jul 2019	Apr 26
the bookstore tommy was the skipper on the tugboat 'whiskey smoke`.. he lived for his two husky dogs and loved his rum and coke.. twenty one and crazy.. I was r...	412	10	0	May 2019	Jun 2019	Apr 22
the last Irish wolf, 1786 to the day the darkness brings an end I am the last Irish wolf the darkness is my friend they killed me and they skinned me as the virgin...	410	2	0	Jul 2019	Jul 2019	Apr 29

borderline Park was the head officer on the border crossing between North and South Korea. He had a problem. Two weeks ago a woman, let's call her lin, pitche...	404	2	0	Sep 2019	Nov 2019	Apr 26
the girl in the wave on a spring time morn was wonder born a strange fluke cut the sky from eddied hair a magic stare told me that truth can't lie a girl who...	403	10	0	May 2019	May 2019	Apr 28
farewell BMW Well I took a heavy spill and I royally broke a part of my head I wrote off my motorcycle and I spent three months in a bed well she was go...	398	3	0	Aug 2019	Aug 2019	Apr 26
that girl I met me a girl called Deja Vu her folks seemed to know me and her dog did too she told me my future as we lied in bed she seemed to know th...	397	7	0	Jun 2019	Jun 2019	Apr 26
cautionary tale to a five penny piece I shrunk to the size as life made me hard in the head and the eyes so press ganged was I on a leathery ship that liv...	389	16	0	May 2019	May 2019	Apr 29
the song of evening I was never taught how music's sold and bought all I know is every girl I ever knew had lyrics.. but never you girl you are a ce...	388	5	0	Sep 2019	Sep 2019	Apr 27
the face of god I took a walk in ancient clothes across your face, a mile and as I tired I took a rest in the corner of your smile my crops slept in barren fiel...	385	2	0	Oct 2019	Nov 2019	Apr 29
"triangle" spiraling debauchery the pit in which I fell tis fiendishly amoral the tale of which I'll tell I dreamt of tax accountancy but my parents had...	385	7	0	Jun 2019	Jun 2019	Apr 6
the willow signs her name on the river when the playing cards fall from the poker game of life in name or in spirit I'll always call you wife you watched me live my dreams as I tra...	377	4	0	Jul 2019	Jul 2019	19 hrs ago
guitar I spent Monday just walking through town.. searching for magical.. timbers of brown Tuesday's arrival.. flooded my deck.. from the truest of branch...	375	2	0	Jul 2019	Jul 2019	Apr 26

"another" a town called Another a town like the others where people dug coal mines drank with their brothers I met her in winter when cold slept in s...	366	4	0	Jun 2019	Jun 2019	Apr 22
the artist our tale begins midwinter in austere and ancient rooms.. where landlords sold satanic ales to drink away life's glooms a tortured artist drinks a...	364	4	0	Jun 2019	Jul 2019	Apr 24
Leslie Ann well you walk with a swagger that's unearned but it always fits you well and you speak in a way the warms the places where them wildflowers d...	360	2	0	Jun 2019	Jun 2019	Apr 8
ragnarok "father's fly me strength of two all wars are old yet I am new" the trees will bud bodies without any eyes as the calm before battle sleeps in t...	359	5	0	Jun 2019	Jun 2019	Apr 19
the last job "when I buried hate and then forgave a poem grew around the grave" The old man appeared surly, because he WAS surly. He spent the latter pa...	351	1	0	Apr 2019	Sep 2019	Apr 26
the cowboy and the mermaid there's a golden sun on a spinning wheel there's a yellow fleck in a pan full of steel there's the fire I spat and the breath I once drew...	351	6	0	Mar 2019	Apr 2019	Apr 30
"Bluebell" she was crying in the sea unloved and worn she spoke to me her heart and boards were long ripped out her diesel engine left in doubt ye...	349	4	0	Jul 2019	Jul 2019	Apr 26
the girl after.. the girl after you old boats they can charm any ocean fibreglass lord knows runs afoul and for every newsflashy gimmick there's a hundred year handcrafted d...	349	1	0	Aug 2019	Aug 2019	Apr 26
the trail she looks at me dark hair runs down the corridor of her shoulder, still warm from the last shot of whiskey, her words stop me cold: "You know bi...	349	1	0	Sep 2019	Sep 2019	Apr 26

walRU Most Viewed Poems (50)