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The Back Burner
I heard you calling my name in an echoing whisper 
I saw a bird take wing in the whirling wind of disaster 
I put my weary head on your broad shoulders
The moment we touched, I was broken boulders
I thought I was latching on to someone...

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Categories: on the back burner, deep, depression,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Back Burner Woman Blues
I've got a back burner woman and I know
you'd never understand.
I've got a back burner woman and I know
you'd never understand.
Oh you know I love you, woman, but
I've got a back burner woman,
just in case you stray away.

I've got a back burner woman and I...

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Categories: on the back burner, allusion, analogy,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member On the Back Burner
To
soak in
a scripture-
until it makes
sense...

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Categories: on the back burner, devotion, faith,
Form: Bio

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry



The Back Burner
If there’s one thing I excel at,
(I am really quite a pro)
It is using the back burner,
Which, in case you didn’t know

Means procrastination, baby!
Putting things off for so long
I forget I meant to do them,
Which I guess is kind of wrong.

Still, I do deserve some...

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Categories: on the back burner, me,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Back Burner
The ability to dream, not diminished by doubt or the human condition, can let hope exist. Hope by it's nature, is yet unfulfilled and completed, but is necessary as the birthplace of changes yet to occur. Take away the gifts of dreams and hopes, and...

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Categories: on the back burner, dream,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Back Burner
The Back Burner
Miracle Man
1/13/2025

In each life will come
ample opportunities,
daydreamers let pass.

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© Tom Wright  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: on the back burner, dedication, destiny, dream,
Form: Haiku




Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry