Best Inspectors Poems

When I was young my mom, like most women, donned a hat when she went out.
Dad said it added to her beauty…of this I had no doubt.

My mom had a collection of hats she stored in boxes under her bed.
So many different kinds of bonnets...

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About a month or two ago I had this great idea.
To open up a Haiku Shoppe – kinda like a cafeteria.
 I knew they were tasty bits and went real well with beer –
But just how many made a mess was never made quite clear.

There...

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Headlines of irony in life…
Human satire—cuts like a knife.
The unsinkable ship, that sinks.
Surrounded by peeps, yet alone.
Priests who ‘prey’—yet sins they atone.
Pastor fights alcohol, but drinks.
Tax czar who cheats on his taxes.
Animal fans—hunt to relax.
Abortion kills—with nods and winks.
Lifeguard fearing water—lauds land.
‘Football’—a game played with...

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Restaurants have ratings now;
They’re mostly A’s or B’s.
Eating in a C or worse,
You might catch a disease.

When eating out, I never think
About the kitchen’s state;
‘Cause if I did, I might regret
The food that I just ate.

If restaurants have a sign that says
“Grade Pending,” then you...

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It's time to shock the system 
It's leavin' us behind
The company the government 
Left us down the mine

My great-great-great grandfather 
Up in Harper's Ferry town
Swinging from the gallows 
With the body of John Brown

Grandad fought in France
And Dad did time in Vietnam 
I was proud...

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To Melbourne town he took the ship, the man from Marrawah,
to take in all the city sights, he'd  never seen before.
Disembarking from the boat, he began to wander around.
Inquiring from a passerby what number tram, to take him into town.

While standing in the rolling...

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© Ben Burton Feb 5, 2014

I view beauty with desire
But am seen through abstract eyes
Which begats a mystery
For I don't try to be that kind

The shattered pieces in my wake
As tea leaves wither in the brine
Leave only scarves to pacify
The punctured seal can't be revised

No...

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I wonder if it’s that hard?
I am young and full of years.
I walk this beach every day and watch
The tides come in, and drive back out.
Birds fly gracefully above my head and
The breeze blows sand into my face.
My feet sink into the damp out skirt...

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WHEN YOU WANT TO HUNT

Which is worst, being on Board of Directors
Or did become dissectors call building inspectors
And no matter what they may ever do
Up everything seem surely to screw.

Have some humor heard someone say
Don't have pot to piss in or can pay
For how much...

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[The primary cause of the 1986 space shuttle disaster was an O-ring of a design that hadn’t been tested below fifty degrees. But hey... it’s Florida, right? 
That fateful night before the launch, the temperature went through the floor. That O-ring became brittle, leading to...

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We live in a time where people crave for reward 
Always serving with their eyes wide open 
Or you can better say, 'eye service'
And that's just because the inspectors or soldiers may chase

It doesn't matter whether it is allowee or money
Secret service is the service...

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I remember my mom having a collection of hats she stored under her bed.
For any occasion that could arise…she had a hat to set atop her head.

Moms of today are different…often they go out with their heads bare
because of this we don’t often realize…all the...

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Sometimes she will talk of it, not often,
but maybe her mother, just to see how she is doing, 
opens a door in her mind again.
Dead mother, in her very special way, still cares.

When young, very young,
she was taken on long silent walks
to the emergency room;
another...

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I imagine my ancestors having once lived in parts of Europe
having the ambition to sail to America with prayers and some luck
leaving behind the potato famine blight that disrupted their Irish lives
with their small suitcases arriving here as husband and wife

Their Irish brogue was probably...

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