words are freedom
jeff walker | poet
words are freedom
jeff walker | poet
The Poems
My poems are about the every days and any nights, the hopes and fears, and the loves and losses that have touched my life. These are the words by which I've celebrated, endured and survived - learning to live fully and love truly, balancing fear with faith - in fatherhood, in friendship, and in Love (capital L).
It has taken years to become liberated from the bondage of self and society, learning to live wholly in the light of spirit and to shine poetry upon my days. Words are freedom.
Author's note: These poems were written over a nearly 40-year period, on various computers using different software. There are formatting inconsistencies I have left in place to be observed like a changing landscape on a long train ride. Similarly, I have refrained from editing the content or style of earlier work by way of accepting my own shifts and changes along the journey. Lastly, there are some missing poems - I've used numbers to save them their places in case they someday come home.
Poeming The People
For nearly 3 decades, I have sent my words out in to the world every winter - poeming the people in my life with the lines of truths I encounter. I've posted these here on this site as well. They are stepping stones from then to now. They are postcards from along my journey to freedom.
Get Poemed
If you need a poem or poetic words to borrow, I might be your Cyrano. Just use the contact form below to connect.
If you would like to support making poetry available to others in need of words, please click the donate button below, or visit Venmo @Jeff-Walker-57.
Sidewalk Poetry
In 2019 one of my poems was imbedded in concrete on a sidewalk in Cambridge, MA. It was a poem I wrote about being bullied as a kid and chased home from school, and later reclaiming the sidewalks as a grown man. The poem is now meaningfully placed as a promise of perseverance in a section of sidewalk directly in front of the King Open elementary school in East Cambridge.
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