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Best Poems Written by Marianna Burns

Below are the all-time best Marianna Burns poems as chosen by PoetrySoup members

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Love Affair

Gentle fingers brush my face
Followed by a loving embrace
Soft kisses caress my lips
As my self restraint soon slips
Following my clothing to the floor
At the nervous expectations
Of your initiations
My body no longer standing
Your actions becoming more demanding
Touching and taunting
Each sensation haunting
Causing my limbs to quiver
As even you begin to shiver
Soon spreading open my legs
For the part of you that begs
Gasping at the firm heat
My fingers grip the sheet
Your muscles growing tight
As the sensations reach their height
Creating verbal elations
Of our passionate demonstrations
Through which time stops
As the weight of your body drops
Making us flesh to flesh
A sweaty sighing mesh
Leaving only our eyes to meet
The event so complete
While you whisper in my ear
Words of love so sincere
That finally we fall to rest
Your arms around me, my head on your chest

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Mother

Thank you for your unanimous praise
Complete and unchanging throughout the days
Your smile shining above me like the sun
Knowing my life has just begun

No matter what your love is true
Even with the stupid things I do
Congenial and kind
With love eternally blind

Teaching me honesty and morality
Never giving a technicality
Surrounding me in safety
But never trying to restrain me

I’m glad you are who you are
And not some far off star
You are my mother
There is no other

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Fading Friendship

Beautiful people turn ugly in end

Once glowing hearts that grow tarnished and old

An inner light no longer their eyes send

Ther once kind soul to the devil is sold

My eyes weeping to watch the horrid cost

To see them turn away from a dear friend

Does anyone see what has been lost

Beautiful people turn ugly in end

Like fog their goodness slowly disappears

Will this blackened wound ever really mend

Turning ugly with help from inner fears

Beautiful people turn ugly in end

Old hobbies change to stabbing in the back

Their only intentions are to offend

While passing by their appearence refracts

Beautiful peopl turn ugly in end

So now I will bid goodbye to a past friend

Beautiful people turn ugly in end

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Baby of Mine

Baby bliss

An angel’s kiss

Laughter like bells

Oh the joy it tells

Of the blessed life

With out pain or strife

Oh baby of mine

How your eyes do shine

While you set my heart a glow

With more love then I can show

Your silly grace

And infant face

Bringing joy to my day

In my heart you will stay

Oh baby of my

How you do shine

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Rosebud

Rosebud, rosebud soft and sweet
Why were you created for this world to meet
with no one to love or care for you
Only to greet the mornings dew
Before the sun before the light
Only to awake during late night

You of love the world of hate
What can be your fate
But your creator has not failed
He gave you so gentle an armour of thorn
To protect you from sadness and mourn
but how can he protect you from age
He can not put you in a cage
For no one can be protected from that
Soon age will come and you shall fade from memory and that will be that.

Yet how can anyone forget your lovely face
Would be a sad and different place
But times change and years pass
Faded forever more into the grass

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Heart of Glass

My heart was shiny and new once

Frail but rigid ever vigilant

Catching the light and casting warmth in it’s wake

But as time went on fractures and fissures appeared

Slowly giving way to chips and nicks

Still my heart held on keeping true to form

Remaining solid in times of weakness

Taking every bump and drop with stride

Yet with every drop and knock a little piece gives way

Not noticeable at first

Collecting silently in the bottom of my chest

No glue to bind them back into form

To make what is falling apart whole again

The flaws and damage finally taking their toll

Collapsing the once brilliant heart

Into a pile of shards

Twinkling here and there

A little glimmer of what once was whole

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Moving On

Like the waves leaving

I lay grieving

Only to know it is time

An everlasting climb

Reaching the summit

Praying I won’t plummet

Leaving loved ones behind

Tears beginning to blind

The unchanging forward gaze

Onward to future days

Where life is new

“To thine own self be true”

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My Ocean's Storm

I hate

I cry

I live

I die

You run

You hide

You lie

You deny

These statements swirl in my head like a whirl pool

Sucking me into an abyss of self-loathing

Only to drown me into nothing

You sleep

You survive

You continue

You try

I sink

I scream

I drown

I sigh

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Grandmother

Your bright eyes of old

A story to be told

Containing memories of youth

With some embellished truth

You have been strong

For so very long

A life of perfection

With unchanged direction

Your words guide me well

In all that you tell

But no answers for sale

Allowing me to fail

So I may learn

From you in turn

To remember what I do

And pass it onto someone new

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Goodbye But Why

I must bid you a sad goodbye

And with your deep eyes you say

“But why?”

Because my heart is dying

Again with your eyes crying

“But why?”

So I bend upon a weak knee

Breathing deeply to answer your plea

I love you, that is why

I love your eyes, your embrace, the curvature of your face

That is why

Still you do not understand

Once more with an open hand

“But why?”

Now with a tear in my eye

Because you do not love me

Do you not see

You shake your head

Not understanding a word I have said

One last time, one last moment

To explain what I have meant

On both knees this time to hear my please

Your heart is in her hands

In mine it falls like time’s sands

You run to her embrace

In mine there is no trace

Now do you comprehend

That is why I am no friend