Best Buckley Poems

"Sharp Nibbed, Diminished"



Ignominy, cries softly ...

When the ground swallowed him
When life imploded inside
When the little girl cried
At that moment life died

When his heart broke
When all words dried
When his tears cried
the second time spent

absent love wept
willows drowning dreams
turning pages slowly

a life boat floating aimlessly
sharp-nibbed oars
beak-like bleeding

dipping...

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"PHOENIX: Bleeding Hearts and Blue Violets”


 

Broken Hearts bleeding red
You lie in white sheets
Turning in the crisp clean pages muddy with
Black Dogs barking in your head
They run all night chasing your tail
You twist and turn in bed
What could have been?
What should have been?
There is no...

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“Now behind the eyes and secrets of the dreamers in the streets rocked to sleep by the sea, see the titbits and topsyturvies, bobs and buttontops, bags and bones, ash and rind and dandruff and nailparings, saliva and snowflakes and moulted feathers of dreams, the...

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Dependable Defender Jésus Christ of Nazareth Football Club

This morning lost His appeal for the red card He received

During His side game with the highly rated Pharisees

He’ll  be unavailable for their match against the Sadducees


He was sent off by no-nonsense referee Pontius Pilate

For defeating a...

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"Shrouded" 

found in the humanity
not in the divinity
many pilates 
wash their hands
of this

long enough
for the clouds 
to descend 
then rise 
fly away 

criminal as charged
electric in the body
the mind already risen
the observer now crucified
takes notes

passionately 
shrouded in the crowd
lux vitae let loose
through holes in the...

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What's found at the crack of an egg
wonderin if I have somethin', anything
left to say..   
bright yolk or young generations hope..   
open your mind, try if you can
whether breakfast or prayer for man.

Y'know I go to visit the lonely in their...

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Shining stars were dulled by life
 fatally falling while achieving
    Greatness in waiting...
Unaware masses treated after 
  to voices and chords of the heaven sent
A mantle of greatness slipped past their passing

Shining bright white, talent seared 
  crowds adored in...

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My Nephew Bucky.
You have always been a special one
You made me so very proud
We always had special times and fun
We'd dance and sing aloud.

When you'd fall and get hurt
You'd run to me to stop the pain
and wipe away your tears and dirt
No matter what our...

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You were my gangster
And i was your little princess
We always listened to oldies on the radio
Those lonely nights, nothing to choose

You know, I love the silence
But silence without you is not a silence
Karma came around
Like I knew it would

Look, she's laughing
And you laugh like you...

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Dedicated to my dear friend Sarah (with an H) for pointing out God's creation of nature in Isaiah 55:12
There are many trees in my yard
Beautifully made by our creator
Those admired most have names
All of the others I call Spectators

Each one seems uniquely styled
Being the tree...

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**                                 Rush Hudson Limbaugh III
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"50 Words for Poe: The Dolphin"  



Like Christmas 
all come at once
So too, to the 5th Dimension 
a motley crew had arrived
They were all now
One Flew Over the Cuckoo Nest
comfortably ensconced 
all behaving like 
well-behaved fallen angels -
for once


They had parked themselves at a...

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I’m going to L.A. and I’m going to smoke and wear black
What a rainy day
I would be safe and warm if I was in L.A.
Flower’s dancing in the rain

Dream brother, dream brother, dream brother is on my mind
Jeff Buckley, hell yeah
Oh how sad
It’s too cold...

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I was born of sand and sea
Of ozone so fresh 
It could be tasted

I was born of a mountain
A picture postcard backdrop
Shadowing a small seaside town
It's grassy slopes
And sheer rock faces
Visible to all

I was born of sunshine
Long summer days
Spent on glorious sandy beaches

I was born...

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The Beer trip
I went to a party the other night 
I had a great time and was feeling no pain.
When joe walked up to me and said it was my turn to get the beer.
I took his keys and went to the truck.
I headed towards...

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