Long Bourn Poems

In her slippery salmon swim
    And red streaked Crawdads chute
    Into her eddying pools
    To stare at her from beneath rocks.
    Whitewater rapids...

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Swords words adored words swords                              ...

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This heart of mine has stood the test of time
This heart of mine is so divine
This heart of mine has nothing to hide
I wake before the break of dawn
To tell you what is going on,
My...

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1 From tuning précised white harmonic doves,
You made a fair light, the sun was torn halves,
And weaved the dimmed lawn- an elegant quilt,
For only those mine could feel the well-built!

2 Hence I, with my will,...

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I’ll love you, precious, I’ll love you
Till the Atlantic and Indian oceans kiss,
And the wind jumps over the mountain
And the laughing kookaburra sing at the shores,
I’ll love you for all you are yet to be.
I’ll...

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Traveling along these celestial corridores

Through the spectrum, called life ~

Brought forth by a birth....

Bourn, for this very purpose in time?

A revelation revealed, by the hands of imperatives, "Faith!"

These reverent realities, of a humbled soul ~...

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Sweet heart my passion dear pumpkin
Sweeter than a cabbage you are my sweet corn
somewhat louder than the bourn
Deep into that darkness sprouting
Liken a flower blossoming
How they were shouting, touting - flouting
those the farmers and gardeners
They...

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To all the frontline workers, if u ever feel tired just wake up 
 early in the morning, wander into a garden ,when everyone still in bed retired

You lie down on your back and put...

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“ UNSUPPORTED CODE ” ©
Now it’s about time for all to be known
What’s always been there are facts to be shown
Eternal at last it embraces all
And with composure it stands by on call
Time is the...

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As consciousness rose
 so did the shadows in men,
 until the white sun rises
 and leaves turn unfolding Zen

In the long grass of sleep we all lay
 awaiting the awakening to life,
 innocence filled our...

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I whisper your name

                Feel the familiar soothing sounds and rhythms

         ...

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Torn of the flesh; yet it may seem
Extra beats to remind of things unseen
Well then it utters deep within 
Silent marks of memories engrave to dream

Yes, it never get drought with drear 
Just as how...

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One

The tilted day do ruminate so slowly on its fate.
How shall one dim time’s lasting set display towards mourning?
If filled is eye with circumstance whose show pours forth such splendor bourn; what
causative power shears the...

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Before any thunder and lightning from man is dealt 
Before any storm reaching passed the sea to ring the knell 
Truth’s dead soul pierces through clouds like moonlight to be felt 

A forgotten corpse wasting...

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What a life be; if without a tint packed with spices 
All spices high and mild; nostrils filled with its aroma 
Whether flow with the Ganga colliding the bourn,
Or sang with the chirping of the...

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Sunlight Sighs

Peaceful beauty bourn
where cataclysmic chaos
once adorned new dawns.

© Dane Ann Smith-Johnsen
February 11, 2010

Poetic form:  Haiku

Footnote:  Bourn is an archaic term that has several meanings.  
1.	A small stream or brook
2.	A destination; a...

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Little girl, little girl that was bourn premature
The devil thought the had her, But he didn't know the shocking truth,
She was save and blessed in a special way
That's the reason why, she was born on...

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Air-Bourn Into the 20th Century
David J Walker

I was one of  the soldiers who 
Missed the target of the jump
Nine months up in a cloudless sky
Where some were chosen to live
And others to die 

Before...

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Balloons Geese Parks
David J Walker

The man in the park
With balloons for sale 

Dreams are a penny a piece
Balloons float away said Daddy that day

Shall we give one to the Geese
Shall we send a prayer 

Into...

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Mingled worths gleaned by contrasting instructions.
Disappearing as I meander amidst sun-soaked wisps.
History is storming, howling, and recoiling further convictions.

Current plans riding the rowdy wave are being crisp.
Ramifications of implied vows reveling from a keen sense,
Beautification...

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After this you needn't regret
Your life is bourn as your child today
Voudrais tu une cigarette?

All stakes are high upon this bet
Though grace and patience is all to pay
After this you needn't regret

In warmth and bonds...

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Stage Fright
by Michael R. Burch

To be or not to be?
In the end Hamlet
opted for naught.

NOTE: I interpret Hamlet's famous "To be or not to be" soliloquy as a meditation on suicide. Hamlet considered death preferable...

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Irked be my ego of tragedies past

Beyond the bourn of plausibility

Shunned not the wage of possibility

For the memories forsake me aghast


Not a tear shall collapse nor be refrained

If so fear's mighty reflection shall quake

The art...

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Truth Finally Revealed
David J Walker

The lie wrapped in the riddle 
Lay bare to the gaze of wonder
If Only 
	From the middle 
	There were the words 
	Of thunder

If Only
	I knew the words
A riddle
To challenge passwords 
Into...

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