Long Burgess Poems
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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...
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Categories:
burgess, animal, girl, humor, irony, word play,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
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 languish deep in obscurity,
while...
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Categories:
burgess, art, how i feel, music, satire, smart,
Form:
Rhyme
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 Committee on Thursday &
asserted to the world...
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Categories:
burgess, life, world,
Form:
Free verse
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 & from...
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Categories:
burgess, life, work, work,
Form:
Free verse
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.
Roy...
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Categories:
burgess, appreciation, cool, crazy, dream,
Form:
Free verse
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 Ahead”.
Orange traffic cones lined the lane on...
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Categories:
burgess, nonsense,
Form:
Free verse
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 pulse and rhythm of each staccato stroke
against the clockwork springs
and...
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Categories:
burgess, 11th grade, 3rd grade, 6th grade, 7th
Form:
Acrostic
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
was his sidekick, the Raucous, rude dummy, Fats,
through which (whom) he Illustrated...
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Categories:
burgess, film, horror,
Form:
Acrostic
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,
For we waltz twixt sky and earth-
Domain of...
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Categories:
burgess, 12th grade, appreciation, autumn, nature, november, sad,
Form:
Rhyme
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...
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Categories:
burgess, grandfather, grief, light, loss, ocean,
Form:
Rhyme
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 effervescence shines so bright,
As lily pads, complete me like the clouds ...
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Categories:
burgess, lost love, love, me, , Lullaby,
Form:
Sonnet
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 gentle breeze, like...
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Categories:
burgess, love, romance, romantic, romantic love, wedding,
Form:
Rhyme
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 look at...
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Categories:
burgess, beauty, desire, girl,
Form:
I do not know?
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 the farthest
When all is said...
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Categories:
burgess, brother, childhood, family, graduation, growing up, imagination,
Form:
Rhyme