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Tread Lightly
by Walter Jones (Age: 63)
copyright 06-08-2008

Age Rating: 13 to 127

It was a trail in fate
A hello late
Red white to hue
Shuffle your feet
Dance for the booze
A cup rattles bars
Stars are what we are
Rented for the view
Act one to act two
A silence before dawn
Portrait of haunt
A field seen
Campfire steams
Last of rebel call
We graduated one and all

I saw the horseman coming
Crying my name
The graves of failure
Did the same
In the midst of want I saw
The last Rebel the last outlaw
No marks upon the stone
In robe he stood alone
Blank paper disgrace to his family
Tears filled his wife
As she cut him from the tree

There is no purpose of phrase
That makes the honor ritual or haze
For time it is just a measure of
No magic wand or coffer for love
We are here to more than achieve
Up in smoke the spirits grieve
I count the wilier side
Dress to take the final ride
Sunday best a tattered robe
Ribbons across his chest

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06-13-2008 Anthony Lane Stahlhut

Always filled with stories between the lines. Look closer and find the gem of wisdom. Walt you are a master of words. The story for me hit close to home as I have tried to tell these stories myself. If we could only teach others so they could know what we know because of what we have seen and experienced. Maybe save them some of the heartbreaks and help them to see the glory. This is very good and I did learn things , Anthony

06-10-2008 Wayne Thomas

I take this as a sort of war poem, portrait of winners and losers, "loyal" and "disloyal". And in the end we are all losers, aren't we, for no matter how "glorious" a death takes us, it is just that, death. "Born to heed the trumpets call" as Frank said, and if it were not for the hope bestowed upon us by the Almighty, there would be the end of it. Your poetry and your prose are much alike, Walt--interesting. Very interesting.
Wayne

06-09-2008 Frank Fields

So it has been, down through the ages, has it not? Our historical caretakers, one in each camp, to firmly oppose the other. One to give us value, the other to remove it. And so it would seem that, regardless of the way, satin smooth for some, a cobbled road for others, the final price will be paid by all--saint and sinner, thief and judge, scholar and the slow, a call by all to hear the trumpets of a life well-spent or ill, it matters not for we were born to heed the trumpet's call. ^^

Frank :)

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Tread Lightly by Walter Jones (Age: 63) copyright 06-08-2008 Age Rating: 13 to 127

Tread Lightly
by Walter Jones (Age: 63)
copyright 06-08-2008

Age Rating: 13 to 127