Burgess Poems - Poems about Burgess

Crapping Out A Masterpiece, Part I

...It’s funny to look at creatives,
painters, writers, musicians and such,
look back across their bodies of work,
and laugh at how much of it is luck,
that things they put their whole soul into
now...

Obsessive Orange

...I will always hate the colour orange. Consider:
Last meeting was on promoting sales of necklaces,
The folder given was orange.

Going home was a one-lane affair,
An orange sign stated, “Works Ah...

The Lighthouse

...Some folks like to say that life’s a beach
Build our castles in the sand and then we dive
But there are few who care enough to reach
And pull us back from the ever rising tide

When we’re conten...

Two Hearts

...They say that love is like the sun
Lighting up the moon
Two hearts eclipse and beat as one
On an evening late in June

In azure skies where stars are strung
Like jasmine vines in bloom
A gentl...

Verse of Burgess

...Sprawling, against a backlit Sun.   Magenta

 the Clockwork of Time

and its infinite antinominies

..................of timeless aimlessness

and Void of Time

 fades as a memory

the pu...

Freedom

...Freedom is the green grass where the antelope roam
It’s the darndest yarn of cotton 
It’s the bottom feed for human basics

Freedom is the buttress of the Moths wing
It’s the smile you give me
...

Rising Star

...To the boy who battled dragons
In the mists of yesteryear
Did you ever imagine
That you’d be standing here?

To the man who’s made of stardust
Our brightest son and sun
Will your light shine t...

Hamadryad

...All within the taiga glade,
Their raiments gilt in comely shades,
The burgess shrives vagrant souls.
A garth of god for men alow.

Whereinto the roots may grow,
We wayfarers may never know,
Fo...

Unquotable Quotes: Liii - Tongue Teasers

...UNQUOTABLE QUOTES: LIII - Tongue Teasers

Whether the glass is « half full » or « half empty », what counts is WHO « drank" the "other half », the « better half » ? Lucky Devil !

« By hook or...

Mind Bendingly Real

...I wake from a bad dream 
Hey there new man
That’s what they said to me
Hey there how’s it been lately?
I stand, look and see

Elvis, Martin Luther King and John Lennon walk on by so casually.
...

Ventriloquist

...Corky Withers was a Very talented performer,
leaving audiences Excited and mystified
with his magic acts Night after night. 
More mesmerizing Than the sleight of hand
...

Axon Burgess

...My name is Axon Burgess
I am broken and thin
I went to fight for glory and right
but only drank more gin 

Before he died
my friend would confide 
about his sister's beauty
if her eyes did lo...

Pick Up the Torch

...had Julian been even a sparkle in his 
mom’s eyes
when Ray put the pen to Fahrenheit 451,
one might have witness the light being 
passed
straight from one hand to the next---
from Zamyatin to 
Huxley...

Please Say That Again Mister Burgess

...PLEASE SAY THAT AGAIN MR. BURGESS (JUST A LITTLE BIT LOUDER)

Lieutenant General Ronald Burgess
(Director of the US Defense Intelligence Agency)
sat there in front of the Senate Armed Services Commit...

In Heavenly, Love Abiding, Sonnet Lxxv

...Having felt the true awareness beauty brings
Here blindly corresponding' overdue,
Leaves sentiment for daydreams to review
Whilst pondering on thoughts of lovely things,
Like you, whose effervesc...

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