Sorrow ~ A Poem By Walt Page, The Tennessee Poet

His sorrow creeps in Like an unwelcome memory Sorrow and guilt Become brothers in arms Regrets overwhelm him When sleep doesn't come They don't ring his doorbell Or knock on his door They just creep on in Through the cracks in his floor So he writes about his sorrow His regrets, guilt and pain Writing...

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Only The Winds Know ~ A Poem By Walt Page, The Tennessee Poet

I sat quietly on the edge of eternity With an idea why I was there But only the winds know The winds always know All of the world's questions Are answered in the winds But only the winds can hear them It has been true since the beginning of time And the winds know their...

A Creature Of The Night ~ A Poem By Walt Page, The Tennessee Poet

I am the darkness A creature of the night Avoiding daylight Like a vampire I wader through your dreams Exploring every unborn thought That forms inside your mind You don't even realize That my darkness infects you Nighttime brings life Filled with powerful knowledge Your learning is beginning Your transformation soon complete My darkness has...

All That Matters ~ A Poem By Walt Page, The Tennessee Poet

I spend a lot of time with words Reading them... Writing them Learning them... Saying them As a poet Words are all I have To create images and feelings In the mind of a reader I want the words I choose To let a reader See the sunset I'm writing about To feel the raindrops...

The Faerie Queen ~ A Poem By Walt Page, The Tennessee Poet

She was a child of the faeries Raised beside a pond Where reeds and cattails grew She could fly And had the strength of ten men She grew up riding unicorns And often raced the dragonflies Her kisses were all magical And her touch electrifying She loved to read and play guitar Her voice was...

Whispers Of The Wind ~ A Poem By Walt Page, The Tennessee Poet

The wind whispers to me Telling me secrets She feels that I should know She knows that I've been losing sleep But that's the way life goes She tells me of the olden days When she was condemned to silence How she cried a million tears When she saw water turn to wine She is...

Not Just My Verse, Your Two Two Too! – The Wrong Side of 40 – A Poetry Challenge from Rory (A Guy Called Bloke)

Welcome to …. Not Just My Verse, Your Two Two Too! Dorinda (Night Owl Poetry) graciously tagged me to continue this aging process,probably because I'm almost 75! Below, I’ll tag the next poet/writer, to carry on with the poem. 😉 Once the poem [Verse] leaves my blog, the next blogger along can take it where ever...

In My Worlds ~ A Poem By Walt Page, The Tennessee Poet

In my worlds Nothing ever seems real Except the pain And the bills And my wife Susan They are my reality Nothing else is real It's all fantasy OK, except the dogs And our horse Teaka Nothing else Everything else is fantasy Things that aren't real Just parts of my poetry It's becoming more and...

On The Other Side ~ A Poem By Walt Page, The Tennessee Poet

The dream kept returning He was walking through the forest When out of nowhere A door appeared Just a plain white door Like a front door on a house There were no sides to it Nothing was behind it He was drawn to it Like Winnie The Pooh to honey He had to see What...