http://slow.writerscafe.org/dukeswalker The original writings of author Dukesrunner en-us Copyright 2026 WritersCafe.org 1776164603 WritersCafe.org RSS Generator 15 I choke �" Stutter when I need the words most.‘Cause it seems when I’m breathing,It’s all I can do,Not to waste the breath on beingCaught up in the games-InsaneWrapping through my mindLike a music box in rewind,Spinning round and round,As the applaus.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/dukeswalker/608808/ One drop is all it takes,Gored out sky,Lightning pierced to metal stakes,Shocking rockingGlowing coals in the fire,Cold exposed,Flame forgot - retire.And the world exploded.Shattered sparksTo smoked up stacks,Into the fly up beholdClouds bending blendingFighting fire with fir.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/dukeswalker/573341/ Let the light in.Not to banish the dark,But to join it.To embrace the warmth,Of a fireside’s night,As each star rains down,Falling to a world,Devoid.Rejoiced.The blackest coal scorchedTo sheen.By dust and spaceOff luna, by solShines that peaceThrough radiant turmoil.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/dukeswalker/573339/ Through the Valley of Death,I drift through its shadowTo rest in its shade.I do not fear evil,A fine line defends ofIniquity scouring the shield that surrounds me.But I observe it,Indirectly, I watch it,I notice how it scorches the earth,Scorns the grass and breaks the clouds.The.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/dukeswalker/573337/ Up there -  there’s the sky,Up way so high.I’d be up there too,If not for this tether held tight. Chains and pains, that’s all it is.Or at least that’s what they told me.Why fly when I can run?And then �" Why run when I can walk?They had me cr.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/dukeswalker/524601/ Won’t try to impress this time.Just working for me and me alone.‘Cause it seems other people,Just don’t see.Or won’t see?It’s a pity, really,That they all can’t see what I see.What do I see?I see it all,And nothing at all,But enough and not so,.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/dukeswalker/524598/ Every day, the current stream of life,Motion, music fly-by,Overpowered in the flow,Music-box spun out of tow.The hood covers tight,Beat flooding through the night,What he sees he wishes he couldn’tFor the thoughts be what shouldn’t. But pass him by,The people in the cro.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/dukeswalker/524596/ Open bench,The seat is empty but for me.I sit bent waiting,Praying for the next,In my vision, a pair of feet.  And here,I sit and smile �" watch her closeI relax and hope,Hold this one so dear,Another chance? One couldn’t know. This ride,Right he.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/dukeswalker/524589/ Foresight,The tale of to becomeBut lacked,What never will.The song of summer played out in snow,And the soft fall of autumnA muted death silences the spring.The lover’s ring not seated,If the first steps not taken,But by mind and matter,Stepping into dead air,Is the dread.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/dukeswalker/524570/ Those swings way out in the sunset,A seat for you I’ll always save.Till night falls and the light’s reset,Relive the pendulum at bay. Our lives our seats, swing in motionHand in hand, we’ll fly together.Mountains cowered, we’ll scale oceans,Hands clasped .. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/dukeswalker/524569/ The marrow of the mind -For that you fail to find,Is nor bone nor fleshy hueBut to what most eyes are blind. Burning fast through and throughBy walks of Hell, though may so few,Most search but never seeThat everlasting sun-struck dew. And by Heaven flight so f.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/dukeswalker/524451/ Please stand-by.Please stand-by.Please stand-by. Obediences, grievances,Won’t turn back the clock.What’s done is done,Dead regrets by the tock.Who said you can’t be the changeWho said you can’t disengage,Rearrange, step out the firing range.OrStan.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/dukeswalker/466822/ I walk away.Each day I walk away,Down the street,Across the hall,Along the beach,In the sun,To ends of earth’s I walkWithin my mind and out,Through his head and yours,To find answers,To questions I haven’t yet asked.Perhaps they are the same.I’m anxious.Th.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/dukeswalker/466821/ On weary feet the dreaming dreamer weepsFor that what never was could taste so sweet.The guise of life has near quite stripped his mindOf all unneeded strife �" t’was left behind.So there he stares into the bless’ed light,To see more clear the world of ever-might... http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/dukeswalker/466820/ The pulse - its final whisperFor life it died.It’s beating but a hinder,For the needing soul to hide.But hiding is dying,Some have found,For the lackluster life,Lacked living,Some say,Is better than the life-lost lived.Yet.What life refrained of lifehas lived to speak t.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/dukeswalker/450494/  flicker flicker flashback �"back to will that lost the fightthe waver candle’s long dead lightthat fell fallow under hush of black.What hush of darkThat broke the silence of light’sSo glory,That stands on backs of fallen quarry,To peer on arms bent of fire,Overlooking.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/dukeswalker/441857/  O, Time of mine,Flit and flyBy the morning lightTo heed the speedOf this mourning’s lifeThat cries its plightFor ever’s needTo liveIn death despite. And please hasteFor time she makesIn each step she takesToward the bless’ed light,That of th.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/dukeswalker/407333/  My GodMy GodMy God…Here I am, once again,I’m thinking out loudWith what I daily fail to portray,Hoping these words will shout:I’m trying to put a face to the name,Of this twisted game of life.My Beating heart torn apart �" To home I’m .. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/dukeswalker/407327/  And I said. “Don’t close your eyes,Cease the creasing lines,Don’t breathe that final breath,Please don’t leave me behind. We’ve stood side to sideThrough thick, through thinYou scrapped me out a few times,And I swore you me to the v.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/dukeswalker/404208/ A flash,Lightning bled across the ground.Cracking across his pale face.The beads drenched his pores,Dripping to each side at every tossAnd turn.And still the rain hammered his window.His face, so calmWas distorted,A glance of fury strewn across his face,Then glory the next.Eyel.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/dukeswalker/402827/  Witching HourStrike TwelveAnd my darker side?It can’t be helpedSo while I’ve got the mind to sayWhat words I lack throughout thy dayI speak with rage,Sorrow and angst,That such a world can’t accept such pains.So.Here I am, once again,Speaking by ink an.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/dukeswalker/399576/  Empty,This page upon the wall,The sky through which I fallInto the life I didn’t want,Typing in this dead plain font.Empty,My mind at the current time,Failing to invent a decent rhymeTo set a style for my own,And set the world apart my soul.Empty,The world that I .. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/dukeswalker/395258/  Too many hands.I’m bound,Forced down,Barely breathing,Barely living.I’m blind,For these hands,They guard my eyes.I can’t see the lightFor missing the darkness.No contrast to compare.But I don’t get to decide.The hands are tight,And so many of.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/dukeswalker/395255/  Damn the songHere’s my musicThe blur of linesStretched across my mindEach blob a stain across the measureStretching notes into one anotherMelding song with tuneAnd beat with rhythm…But where’s the instrumentThe master of staccatoBeating out each noteT.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/dukeswalker/395253/  Why do you insist on,Pushing me away?What could I have done wrong,To force you to act this way? For this rock is rolling through lifeBlackened, bruisedBut keeps on movin’, And will this darkness heed to light?From dusk to dawnThe world’s stopped tu.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/dukeswalker/395184/  His hands shake,Bare and boney.They lift each piece from the dirtHolding it to the sun,As it shades a single spot on his face.He closes one eye,And observes the jigsaw eclipse… But the day flashes to nightCaught that man in blinding lightAnd as he fell back lo.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/dukeswalker/395170/  Watch,Wait. Take a breathe,Realize who you are.Then realize again that you can’t. So stand still,Watch the rain,As it meets your lips,But don’t drink.Let it run out off your face,Impervious to the cold,Yet you shiver.The road was never so bla.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/dukeswalker/376224/ Round three. I’m tie and tied,Watching it all fly by.My issues are lost,Burned by the frost. I’m tired of fires,Caught in the cross,In the middle of lies,I’m avoiding the shots. But why tell you,My friend?It’s just my point of view,.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/dukeswalker/376220/  Take it back,One step at a time,Be sure to look forward,In this state of rewind Remember those faces?The one’s you turned away?Pray they don’t haunt you,At the end of each day. How about those voices?Not the ones inside your head.Those of your loved .. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/dukeswalker/376218/  Step lightly,For your pace cracks dirt.Just like the rest.Haven’t noticed yet?Too bad.You would’ve before. Those skies above our heads,They’re grey.So is that shattered soil,Beneath your feet.The water tainted,You’ll find no color there ei.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/dukeswalker/376214/  Worry?Do not.It’s fineYou know. Don’t lie.You don’tBelieveI’m real. Yet if,If so,Then who,Made you? “The world,”You say?Perhaps,It’s true,Says I.But then,Why try?Why lie?Why die?What good.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/dukeswalker/376208/              I smiled, feeling its warning presence. Hot and fast in my veins, my heart pulsed, coursing my blood through its systematic track. Literally bleeding into each limb, I shivered with tension. Vision blurring, and refocusing, t.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/dukeswalker/376204/  But the fault meant nothing.Whereas each step echoed outAgainst the burnt ‘phault and sky.Tatters hung limp,Off each shoulder singing in aim,With the staccato stagger �" To the legato fault of the‘phault. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/dukeswalker/376174/