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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......

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Categories: burgess, art, how i feel,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member 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......

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Categories: burgess, nonsense,
Form: Free verse



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......

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Categories: burgess, grandfather, grief, light, loss,
Form: Rhyme
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......

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Categories: burgess, love, romance, romantic, romantic
Form: Rhyme
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......

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Categories: burgess, 11th grade, 3rd grade,
Form: Acrostic



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 ......

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Categories: burgess, allegory,
Form: Free verse
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......

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Categories: burgess, brother, childhood, family, graduation,
Form: Rhyme
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......

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Categories: burgess, 12th grade, appreciation, autumn,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member 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......

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Categories: burgess, animal, girl, humor, irony,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member 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. ......

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Categories: burgess, appreciation, cool, crazy, dream,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member 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 ......

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Categories: burgess, film, horror,
Form: Acrostic
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......

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Categories: burgess, beauty, desire, girl,
Form: I do not know?
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......

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Categories: burgess, life, work, work,
Form: Free verse
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......

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Categories: burgess, life, world,
Form: Free verse
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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Categories: burgess, lost love, love, me,
Form: Sonnet

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