Sorrow Burlesque Poems

With thoughts of getting fish-faced on a Friday night, 
I dropped anchor in a portside bar 
To contemplate the crooked path to closing time; 
Couldn’t...

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This bowl is no longer mine,

was never so,  

Let it go. 

well worn before the oath,

A gift that despised the guardian, 

Presented freely without...

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Halt, halt,

Give Lust your hands, but NOT your hearts,

For when they hover around you,

You are an imminent carcass,

Loitering and flapping with the disposition of a...

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Well! somebody’s got to fill up these empty spaces,
            Hollowness inside me that keeps...

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The castle is a place where poets dwell.,
Where each can cast their wondrous spell.
From the turrets high to the dungeons deep
From each portcullis to the...

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If I could reach up to the sky and touch the stars way up high,
I would be dreaming as the clock wakes me as it...

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Love's winged to soar
Above outlooks and mind's decor
And abscond from realism
Of life's spectral prism.

Love comes in just a glimpse
But will desert you in a wing...

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ON THE GLORY OF HER SEX, MRS. MARY BLAIZE 

Good people all, with one accord, 
    Lament for Madam Blaize, 
Who never...

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This is my job, changing young minds;
showing them the route to numbers and rhymes,
giving them knowledge of a brand new day, 
and how to kindly...

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I couldn’t wait to eat lunch with you tomorrow
But now my heart is filled with sorrow
The world has violently taken you away
I watched as you...

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