Hatchets Poems

Planet in pluvial fluvial flux

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Planet in flux…it sucks

No refuge..Scrooge rules..

Stooges subterfuge deluge..

Fossil fuel fools..

Poleaxes..then relaxes…

As the earth burns..

As it turns..on its axis..

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Red Paint

...Red Paint
 Long before my time, a group painted in red lived on the land.
 They lived with the buffalo and made weapons by hand.
 They used arrowheads at the end of their spears.
 Their homes wer...

Skipping Kidney Stones

...Did you even want to be found?
I took my shackles off and formed a search and rescue team 
But did you even want to be found?
You’ve been running all your life I think you’ve aced this marathon 
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I Want To Be a Nutcracker

...When I grow up I want to be a nutcracker my son said.
I thought he meant ballerina, was he right in the head?
It’s not because he’s a male but he simply can’t dance.
As his mother I hoped that som...

The Challenge

...Can we rise to the challenge
        Can we truly love all

      the thin and the heavy
       the short and the tall

    Can we accept everyone
       of all different colors
        none ...

Forty Seven Wants To Be Twenty Five

...She is forty-seven, but insists on being with our twenty-five-year-olds.
I have heard her in the office hallway begging to be invited to things.
I will bring a really good present if you invite me ...

Old Women of Southside Knew How To Sing

...We are bouncing and prancing and living our truth.
We are the old women of Southside Acres McGuth.
We have bats and hatchets and know how to swing.
We slap them around while we dance, and we sing....

Angry People Trigger Me

...Angry people trigger me
I am terrified of them, 
pushing myself into a tight ball
sliding into the cracks between the floorboards

I cannot get away fast enough
They might as well be carrying m...

The Buried Hatchets

...Nobody ever forgets where he buried the hatchet. ~ Kin Hubbard


You bring the hatchet
          each time
   and you bury it deep.
Your friend is still your friend.
Many hatchets more with th...

Tulips and Marigold Gun Battle

...The tulips and the marigolds were in a gun battle today.
Queen of Tulips was mad for her latest slave Charlie had run away.
She started the battle with hatchets, battle axes, and hammers too.
Quee...

I Like To Stick My Head Up

...I like to stick my head up.
Sometimes it gets lopped off.
While the angry one glares at me.

I like to give them my views.
Especially when they are unpopular.
Even when they surround me and mob...

Mama Pray For Me

...MAMA PRAY FOR ME

In your deepest chamber Mama,pray for me 
To know who deserves my door and who worths not my window 
For i have seen those who destroyed a man
Attend his funeral to console his...

Undefeated, a Boxing Lesson

...UndefeaTed.  A Boxing Lesson.

A friend, off the Vineyard,
wrighted a ship.
And, perhaps himself,
and certainly the worlds ‘round him.
His words were fashioned, shipshape and watertight
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War

...It took our boys, 
And turned them into men. 
It raped our girls, 
And made them pregnant with hate. 
It took away the toys from our children's hands, 
And taught them to toy with each other's l...

Burying the Hatchet

...Burying The Hatchet
©Ben Burton 4/7/2018

When burying the hatchet, make it deep
Thus none who travels by might ever see
That designee of senseless, squandered time
Wherein the guilt lies not i...

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