Best Burnishes Poems

BAG-LADY IN THE PORTRAIT GALLERY

In all my failed moments of ambitious grace,
The truth, swarth-headed, lifts its greenest shape
To madly light the curls of whitest lace
Edging your throat, and redeem the nape

Where a brown knob burnishes the bone.
Such well-bred tenants of the proudest hock
Like ancient grandees,...

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Lonely Stormbird calls, 
‘I am here. Choose me. Love me’.
Distant thunder rolls.

Flying rain in air —
Touching my cheek, alighting
On my eyelashes.

I hear, rain music —
On leaves, on roof, in gutters, 
Muted cars hiss by.

The rain burnishes
Dull browns and greens — to copper,
To emerald fire.

After —...

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What do I opine of a good man?
                                     ...

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Doubts and worries
Congregate; Hope burnishes
perpetually...

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On a cold winter, bright dawned the beautiful day 
When God bestowed a free spirit of soaring ray
To light up lives of your dear ones with all its glory 
A flustering fragrance that forever reminds your tuneful story 
In rare moments of warmth, you rent...

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Along the edge of a forgotten woodland                     
There slithers a wave of  auroral tint,
As daybreak burnishes  its crimson strand 
Glistening a pool of...

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Doubts and worries
congregate; Hope burnishes 
Perpetually...

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Frozen ice shelf spans water
Snow burnishes the ice-way
Tears that once been sadly shed
Now freeze in their place

Russell Sivey...

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as August burnishes yellow- 
                                        ...

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Ego Gold

All the accoutrements
Bolster self-images
Polished epitomes of self-aggrandisement
Glittering gold possessions
Are the necessities
Of self importance

Makes me smile
For this puddle shallows
Can be stepped over
So easily

A golden bangle
Appeases this living vacancy
Expresses wealth so readily
All its solidity
Materiality
Reflects in its shinning
Empty

Defined heart by plastic
Fantastic advert
Of slick rolling machinery
Means nothing to...

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inspiration burns
turns a spark
from the tinder
     of imagination
into a flame..
          a flame
that gathers up
          experience
burnishes and
       ...

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Autumn burnishes furry heads,
even we, who however scant our hair
flourish in this wind-blown leafy.
No room for stray gray wisps;
our locks turn golden brown,
crown our minds with crinkly laurels.
Mr. Groundhog looks pretty spiffy
in his cabbage leaf toupee,
even the bent old lady
who walks pell-mell
in the Fall, the...

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image alights as a butterfly in spring,a thought arrives as inspiration on the wing.An idea resides to crystallize and brings each together as one berthing the simultaneous visions,mutli-layered innovative coherence unresolved turns a spark from the tinder of imagination into  a flame..a flame that...

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PARTURATION berthing the inpiration

simultaneous

            visions,

mutli-layered

         inspiration:

innovative

coherence

   now apparent,

broken

syntax

      in semantic

      ambiguity...

unresolved

inspiration burns

turns a spark

from...

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