Burns Poems

Fun Marathon Poetry Inspired by Robert Burns

Quiet as a mousie studying the route
Praying proper prep is not in vain
The best laid plans of marathoners
       Might lead to disarray
Race day ending in grief and pain
       At the expense of joy!

When The Bed Burns

Tongues of solar flare  writhe  in combat kiss
     —flame-throwers unleashed
iron words  h a m m e r e d  in fire   
      ferrous words melt-morph into heart-welts 
  once under skin
        

The Darkness Burns

When something is missing, when someone is gone, there is no light
                     It’s not just the absence of sunshine, not just a starlight deceit
It’s more like the aching of pain and sensation, the darkness burns

While The Sky Still Burns

Drink deep the wine of the waking sun—
Its golden breath spills over trembling hills,
And morning, that fragile and flaring drum,
Beats wild against time’s shrinking quills.

The hour is ripe with unsung fire,
A tapestry woven from wind and flame.
Step out — no fear, no false desire —
The world does not wait, nor call your name.

The robin’s hymn

Eternal Love or Fleeting Burns?

You say you’ll love her till the day you die 
But when she feels unwanted and broken inside 
Will you hold her and tell her she’s enough 
When she’s tired of pretending to be tough

Will you love her when she’s a mess
Her hair in a bun, her face not at its best 
When she is

The Gaze That Burns the World

I rise from the body of silence,
with heavy steps of ash and cold.
The sky is a wound stitched with wire,
the clouds hang like the empty eyes of a forgotten God.
The light no longer falls, no longer caresses,
it only breaks under its own weight.

You watch me from behind the world,
but the world is a cracked mirror,
where

As California Burns

Fire starter using flame
To burn kill destroy lame 
What is your end game
To make money to gain

California she suffers so
Set ablaze her forests glow
People steeples burning red
Hard to watch tears are shed

What is the reason or cause
Arson or accident or natures fault 
Too many questions strange to see
Insurance cancelled those policies 

God help California prevail
As

Robert Burns 1759-1796

His work is known around the Earth
This ploughman lad of lowly birth
He wooed and won the lassies braw
His Jean the fairest of them aw
He honoured such as mice and men
And friendship flowed beneath his pen
Of parity and justice wrote
A line that I take leave to quote
“That man to man the world o’er
shall brothers be...” can’t

As The World Burns

(“The Cave of Unknowing”, 2012, original oil)

As The World Burns

As the world turns
The morning soap operas play out
In print and film, song and dance
Showing on every screen 
A world ablaze with fear
Disease, famine, war and rumors of war
Programming the programmable 

While I sit in my room a cocoon 
Surrounded by dogs
All sprawled out on chair

The fire that now burns my spirit

                        Then happy in my own world,
            before you proposed your silly love to me.
Like a hot magma landing on a

What kind of man burns 9 people alive and frame the witness

I can’t fear you Ciro Gargano believe me I know the wrath that sent the Fbi to my door to warn me of your victims and how I could save my children by wearing wires pregnant for the Fbi I am happy corruption helped to cover your mort keeping me from testifying on what I

A Love That Burns Like Fire

How does one describe true love?
no measuring tape can do this
even when it's filled with truth
that surface evidence can be a myth

What we would call real love
can be artificial in its effect
that's why friends so much divorce
what a waste so many are a wreck

We need a metaphor to explain it
a red-hot coal fire burning within
this

In a corner of my soul, longing burns

In a corner of my soul, longing burns,
Flames rising from hopes, desires, pains,
The ashes that remain – dusty memories,
The illusion of time passing, a fleeting moment,
Your stolen glance, a moment that belongs to you,
Take all you can, but leave me a memory.
Make me laugh, make me hope once more,
In the love that is born from

Ode to all African Dreamers of the Written Word

In the vast and verdant landscape of African literature, a constellation of luminous stars once shone bright, their radiant light illuminating the complexities of a continent’s soul.
 
 O Achebe, Awoonor, Mongo Beti, Ama Ata Aidoo, Peggy Oppong, Dennis Brutus, Kwesi Brew, etc.!
 So these Chroniclers of the Human Experience and Visionaries of the Written

It Burns Me So

It burns me so, the things I learn as I get older
            I am not talking about confidence life hacks and salsa
            The things we figure out are lies that we were taught

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