Best Banes Poems

A Montague. A Capulet.
‘Twas at a masquerade they met.
Two strangers caught each other's eyes
as strains of love began to rise.

Upon a courtyard balcony,
amidst the angst...

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 Continued from Part 1 

3. TEATIME INTROSPECTION
Amongst the many are the few
who maim and kill and think it’s true
that purple war’s a parlour game
when...

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Trochaic Pentameter

My love's spirit's gentle like a breeze that
blows cool o'er this my brow, most hot, feverish.
I am made calm by her presence like at
times...

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i look to stars and wishes flew through space never to be heard again
fun to friends hearts do meld and break facing until time ends
this...

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If heaven is a rest for the imbeciles,
the banes of hell my portion must be.
If cloud nine is a bordello, 
and the streets of gold...

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'Helpless' is an adjective I never thought
my hand would write to describe the despair
that's wound its way deep inside my heart.
Honestly, I'm only the catalyst...

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THE STRANGER MAN (3)

But let life live its life and I mine.
I ease myself of all worries
And drift where I may such as liberal
As a...

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Abe Lincoln As A democrat
© Ben Burton 8-25-2014

The evil of men being sold
Long past, since Mr. Lincoln's fight
Still, dark suspicion blooms and grows
And loots the...

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Bereavement is a pain,
 Worse than being lashed or chained
 It crushes and destroys you mind
 No one for it is trained,

By it every path...

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after a few drinks
one cold night
the Rev. Mr Culpepper
left his club
in the eastern part of
Jasper County Mississippi

on his walk home
he was taken sick
and stopped at...

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THIS HOME OF HORRIBLE HATE

Voices of doom fanned by ugly hate
Our doom Echo in shattered boom
Voices of penury and avoidable hate
Clutched vehemently in tall viral...

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Aspire to disseminate inspiration
Respire to ameliorate affection
Mire fires and spires of misinformation

Contribute to spreading care
Distribute love to play fair
Develop attributes with plenty of love flair

Seek...

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The pulchritudinous aquatic lair,

Of resplendent melancholy depth,

A place damaged beyond repair,

Teeming of glazed ghosts of death.

 

Hither and yon an offed world 
lingers,

The alluring charm of the...

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My Arabian stallion
As white as the Arctic floors
As fierce as the fire dragon
My pride and joy ever more

Gallop through the Arabian Plains
Enduring the storm of...

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" WE SHALL VOTE 
WITH  OUR  
CONSCIENCES"

Let us cast our minds 
back to '1983' massacre
When inking our thumbs 
were as inking our 
death-warrants
We...

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