FROM THE SOUL OF A SAMURAI

By

JUDE WALTER

 

This is a wonderful collection of poetic, and evocative verse, and philosophical comments about one’s existence.  The author’s reminiscences are both provocative, thought provoking and reflective of so many as he begins to experience the winter of life.  The author outlines triumphs, disenchantment, religious doubt, and political skepticism with the realization his time is running out and he didn’t change the world.  In fact it was all for naught.

 

 

 

About The Author

 

Jude Walter is a gifted poet and writer of free style verse.  He possesses a talent for expressing his innermost and intimate thoughts in a stimulating style seldom encountered in today’s literary world.  The author touches on thoughts most prefer to ignore.   This work is a genuine attention getter!

 

 

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HOUSTON, TEXAS

 

 

FROM THE SOUL

 OF A
SAMURAI

 

 

By

 

JUDE WALTER

 

 

 

Contemporary Poetry

 

 

 

 

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FROM THE SOUL OF A SAMURAI

By

JUDE WALTER

 

 

 

 

 

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FROM THE SOUL OF A SAMURAI

By

JUDE WALTER

 

 

 

SPECIAL THANKS

 

To the River of Life Community Church

And Fairview Manor Nursing Home

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

FROM THE SOUL OF A SAMURAI

By

JUDE WALTER

 

 

DEDICATION

 

To Joyce Meyers.  Thank you for helping

Me and my indecision in coming back to Christ.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Table of Contents

 

Southern Bell                                                        1
My Life                                                                    2
The Cold Truth                                                      3

Elves                                                                         4
Night Riders                                                          6
Old to Chynna                                                        7
By Twilight and Nightfall                                    8
What is Love?                                                        9
Bulldogs and Me                                                 10
Rainstorm                                                            11
One Question, Thank You                                12
The Winter                                                          13
Dark Times                                                          14
Walk the Walk                                                   15
New York                                                              16
The Forest                                                            17
Fifteen Years Wasted                                         18
Snow                                                                      20
Norway Home                                                       21
My Muslim Brother                                           22
Gods of War                                                         24
Diana                                                                     25
Geisha                                                                   26
Whiskey and Women                                         27
The Bulls                                                              28
Japan                                                                     29
The Three “B’s”                                                 30
War Hawk                                                            31
Remembering the Past                                      32
Moonlight                                                             33
Open the Window                                                34
The Clock                                                             35
The 1950’s                                                           36
I Love My Lord                                                     37
Trust in the Lord                                                38
Zion                                                                       39
If I                                                                           40
Man’s Last Stand                                                41
Summer Time                                                      42
New England                                                        43
In Jail                                                                    44

Mash                                                                      45
The South                                                             46
Kerry                                                                     47
Bush                                                                      48
Pen and the Pulpit                                               49
My Brother
Bill                                                  50
Ode to a Mother                                                   52
South Carolina                                                    53
Give it Back                                                         54
I Killed Him                                                          55
Fall                                                                         56
Why                                                                       57
Where and What                                                 58
The Desert of Despair                                        59
Mississippi                                                           60
Virginia                                                                61
Texas                                                                     62
Easter                                                                    63
Where does a Man go                                         64
Do You Remember?                                            65
North Carolina                                                    66
Bibliography                                                        67

 

 

 


SOUTHERN BELL

 

Angel of the South,

I dream of you.

In my dreams you are sifting

Under a magnolia free.

Waiting for me,

My Southern Bell.

 

 

 

JUDE WALTER

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

MY LIFE

 

Being born disabled means that

I face barricades in life.

 

Life will be hard.

 

People will be both for me and against me.

 

Dreams I have.

 

To quote the Beatles, “I am going to try with a little help from my friends.”

 

If God wills it, I will do just fine.

 

All I am able to do is live my life.

 

 

JUDE WALTER

 

 

 

THE COLD TRUTH

 

The boss does the crime and

the little man pays the time.

 

The black man gets the pay

as the white man toils away.

 

This is the cold truth.

 

 

JUDE WALTER

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

ELVES

 

The time of elves and men are past.

 

I ask you please remember them.

 

Long ago men cared for the land and believed in elves of the woodland realm.

 

Talk of end times was unknown.

 

People cared for their mother earth.

 

During the age of the elf there was peace not war.

 

Life not death was spoken of.

 

I say this to the prophet of death.

 

The love of gold and power has cheated your sight

 

but then you are men not kin to Overon and Laggless.

 

So may God forgive your folly and give you peace.

 

 

JUDE WALTER

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

NIGHT RIDERS

 

Clop, Clop, Clop go the horses hooves as men in white hoods run down a colored man.

 

That was then.

 

Dear God help us now that it’s African Americans on iron horses.

 

 

JUDE WALTER

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

ODE TO CHVNNA

 

I was ten when you were born.

 

For nine months I did pray for you to be a girl.

 

Love you baby sister, do I.

 

 

JUDE WALTER

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

BY TWILIGHT AND NIGHTFALL

 

I have lived most of my life by twilight and nightfall, not standing the good light of day.

 

Light stings my eyes and blinds my sight. Due to this, I am forever condemned to live somewhere between twilight and nightfall.

 

 

JUDE WALTER

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

WHAT IS LOVE?

 

Love is trust.

 

Love is hope.

 

Love is peace.

 

Love is the greatest power of them all.

 

 

JUDE WALTER

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

BULLDOGS And ME

 

I wish to be a bulldog breeder

 

because bulldogs are beautiful.

 

Bulldogs are smart.

 

Being a breeder is something of an art.

 

 

JUDE WALTER

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

RAINSTORM

 

The smell of rain is on the air

 

And then drop, drop, drops hit the roof

 

Flash lightning streaks a night sky.

 

Swish, swish the cars go by

 

Thunder again

 

Lightning fills the sky and this time

 

My baby girl cries.

 

 

JUDE WALTER

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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