Poems by Sharon-Elizabeth Walker

Poems by Sharon-Elizabeth Walker



I Glance Down...

I glance down upon these,
Her river’s tidal motioned flowed
Smoother,
Blessed
Cooled down pebbles kissed.
Memories course veined, through my blood
My body speak as once a child was I
Gleefully skipping
One step, two
Across crashed upon
Washed
Waved ocean beached, stone pebbles,
Upon once my feet caressed.
Time Eternal still now, hushed
Shall for all infinity test memories
Now create.
Drawn upon now, as sighted
Visioned seen
Upon these her river’s blessed tidal-waved
Pebbles, patterns make
As heat-scorched nature-smoothed
Pebbles now bake.

© Sharon-Elizabeth Walker, 2014




Cut Grass

Fresh cut daisies strewn amongst shredded blades of
grass
Petalled teardrops sparkling now, in the noon day sun
Warming rays underfoot, now trodden,
squashed beneath each step.
Prints laid down shapes in sizes, threes and fours
As kiddies squeal with laughter
As innocently do they, their papas shower
With this the fresh cut grass.
Alas, no thought of strewn, ripped, raped
from soil ‘neath bore, cut grass.
Down
Down underneath,
Underfoot
Where petalled-teardrop, per shaded blades
Of aroma-blessed grass, once stretched forth
Warming, kissed by sun’s rays, blessed
As now stand I in reverence, awed
Cut grass

© Sharon-Elizabeth Walker, 2014




Waiting In The Sideline

Standing in the sideline,
I’m just waiting for your call
for me to assist you,
when you slip and fall.
For life is so uncertain
as we all should know
How life is unpredictable
and loves to upset all.

So I’m waiting in this corner
round that corner small.
Dare your heart should take that step;
a peep is all it needs.
For there your answers all shall find
a trust, a love supreme.
No more now in this corner
do I stand and stare
A want, a need, a yearn
when all you need is prayer.

© Sharon-Elizabeth Walker, 2010, 2012


And all heads bowed

I stopped my days’ activities, to take a walk through the
park
For the day was full of sunshine, with spring in each new
step.
A wondrous view was shared by all, on such a glorious
day
When suddenly, a sight beheld, upon my very eyes
Amidst the bustle of the day a child tall, crouched down,
amongst the baseball practice, to pray.

For this is what all heard

‘I thank thee dear God for this ‘ere day, for all d’is
sunshine,
between der rain, for ‘ad it don’t stop, me couldn’t play
Or ‘ear der baba’s mamas’ cry.

Dear God, if I but may, pease take der pain, from dat
mamas’ ‘art?
For if she stops ‘er tears, ‘er baba’s smiles, she’ll see
again.
Dear God, if I can just one more ding, please ‘elp me win,
dis ‘ere game
For den my pa be real proud of me, an’ den he too, will
smile at me.

Oh. Pease God, a lille ding, again I know, but hose
countin’, hehe.
My pa’s bing sick a long long time,
Pease bless ‘im now, so we’ll be fine?
and now dis fing I just must ask pease make it rain, an’ bless dis grass?
Ohh, ta, an’ bye, well for now, I mean.’

Up he got, and ran right past me, and everyone else,
who stopped to see why this boy as old as ten, crouched
down
upon this park’s blessed grass, on his knees.
For now his mark has sure been felt, for silence fell upon
this park.
For as he prayed, he did not know,
He prayed out loud and all heads bowed.

© Sharon-Elizabeth Walker, 2013




Stayed Pained Distance

Stayed pained distance now keep must I
For want of loving, giving kindness of
My heart’s solace now must be,
For once was cared and lovingly embraced
Arms entangled, gentle at peace
Held deep
Deep within Eternal Love’s peace and beauty dwell
Masking love held, in all her embrace, of true love
Where none can shame, and steal
With tortured emotion of their own hate-
Until time blends her unity of Love’s desire
To love,
To hold,
True desires embrace
Now stays pained distance, their heart once pure
Do I,
Shall I,
Stayed Pained Distance now, lie I
Awake my heart’s embrace
Awaits

© Sharon-Elizabeth Walker, 2014