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Best Burdon Poems


Buried
...What do I say?
On this cherry day
At my own funeral
Where I execute and burry
The Burdon I once carried
Where I let go 
Of the life, I’ve faithfully married

Rest in peace woman of excuses
W......

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Categories: burdon, courage, emotions, freedom, goodbye,
Form: Bio
Where Will the Circus Fall
....

Where will the circus fall, 
leaving giraffes homeless,
as pitched tents get pitched
and sideshow freaks 
become the norm,
guessing someone’s weight
who doesn’t care

When the sun sets
......

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Categories: burdon, loneliness,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member True Happiness
...True Happiness.
.
True happiness
Doesn’t belong to the rich
Who are often blind
For true happiness
Is much more than just a feeling
But a state of well-being and a state of mind
That often ca......

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© Peter Dome  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: burdon, analogy, happiness, happy,
Form: Free verse

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My Dad
...Every little girl
has one thing she can count on
Her Dad
That may be true
for many of you
But me and my Dad
aren't very close together
We fight and fight
he puts me down
Like i was just some......

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Categories: burdon, daughter, family, father, sad,
Form: I do not know?
He, Alone, Is Waking
...Only he will remain

With or without a song in his heart
He wakes up humming the tune of treason
Bitter, like the taste of the drugs that remain from the night before,
     he walks a long road ......

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© Myke Jones  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: burdon, confusion, sad, night, night,
Form:
I Can Social Media Point
...Just because I can
Don't mean I should
Or is any good 
Is of little use
Or burdon of proof 
Leading to a headline breaking top story 
On the News at 10
But then again
So aren't the indulgence......

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Categories: burdon, slam,
Form: Free verse



A Statue Speaks
...A Statue Speaks

The morning takes it's first breath of daylight
Exhaling the sunrise that fills the sky with colored 
brilliance.                                                                 ......

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Categories: burdon, dedication,
Form: Free verse
Cockroach Soliloquy
...Cockroach Soliloquy 
By:Judge Burdon

The cockroaches left me a wake up message
Written with saliva and excrement 
it was placed conspicuously  in a garbage can 
where they knew that I'd find i......

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Categories: burdon, character,
Form: Free verse
French Fry Etiquette
...French Fry Etiquette 

She left me sitting alone in McDonalds
Didn't take a bite of her Big Mac 
Or touch a single one of her  French Fries    
She grabbed her Coke then walked away 
And never ......

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Categories: burdon, break up, funny,
Form: Rhyme
My Siblings' Father
...MY SIBLINGS' FATHER
         JUDGE BURDON 


other children feared monsters under their bed
i feared the one living under our roof.
his hair was nimbus black 
with a storm's thunder in his voi......

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Categories: burdon, child abuse,
Form: Free verse
That Winter Evening
...In that winter evening, I dread what I saw..;

The pain as the little child cried..!!

Left on the huge pile of straw..;

Shivering and crying the child look tired..!!

No one at sight, to an......

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Categories: burdon, lifeworld, winter, child, winter,
Form:
Happy Ending
...A mirror shows reflection
Yet can also be distorted

The sun shines light
Yet can also cast a shadow

A river flows and air gives life
Yet can also be polluted

Love fills the heart with kin......

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Categories: burdon, caregiving, happiness, hope, life,
Form:
The Lost Art of Composition
...The Lost Art Of Composition

too often my thoughts and the ability to express them
are taken hostage without a clue to the cause
this is an affliction familiar to many a writer
as if madness was......

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Categories: burdon, creation,
Form: Free verse
Fosse Way
...Legend of Fosse Way

Riding hard under a moonlight high 
not a leaf rustling and it troubles my mind
In the distance there's music of the lyre and flute 
rippling over the moors
Serenading the ......

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Categories: burdon, england,
Form: Ballad
Grilled Cheese
...Grilled Cheese Hold The Memory
By: Judge Burdon
If I only knew what you were thinking 
I'd feel warmer against the cold 
Than with my coat
Avoiding the words I've heard
Crying out to be spoken
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Categories: burdon, break up,
Form: Rhyme

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