Long Burning(a) Poems

I'M REALLY SORRY TO HEAR THAT WE HAD SO MANY LAUGHS ON EVER SUBJECT BOY THE FBI SCRATCHED THIER HEADS LISTENING TO US 7 YEARS  RIGHT SOMETIMES I WISH I COULD ORDER THOSE TAPES...

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World War II Poems and Holocaust Poems II - Bertolt Brecht



The Burning of the Books
by Bertolt Brecht
loose translation by Michael R. Burch

When the Regime
commanded the unlawful books to be burned, 
teams of dull oxen hauled...

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Enlighten the love in my desire…it burns on like a fury fire…
Benevolence is burning a hole in my head…
Because I’ve gave you it far too many times

Change is a challenging choose
You fail and you lose…
But,...

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Those rarer men I once fondly 
knew...                            ...

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A man unpresidentially known for the showerhead
Msholozi, the man in charge of singlehandedly running a nation into crisis
With him at the helm the public anxiously watches as the state of things degenerate
The rand has slumbered,...

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THE LAST STAND

Where have all my people gone, the Navaho, Lakota, and the Sue,
Smothered beneath the white man's blanket,
Chocking for a breath of airs life's sustaining oxygen.
The beating heart of native drums, are stilled frozen,
In...

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To be clear...  
I’m not asking you to love this.  
I’m asking for you to meet me  
where the words land hard—  
where syllables ignite  
like the last coin ...

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It is a peculiarity of Love’s mossy light
that once, hapless rocks drowning in their days
would be overthrown by Love’s destructive plight
and smooth-whiskered words its song to soothe
in the belly of the whale its secrets brew.

In...

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Gray sky’s warm tear drops sad heart 


Why do I cry on sight of a blue moon?


There are no flowers to soon to bloom


When is the sun going to shine? 


 Cloudy days bring rain...

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Where have all my people gone, the Navaho, Lakota,
And the Sioux,
Choking for a breath of life's sustaining air,
Smothered beneath the white man's blanket.
The beating heart of native drums, are stilled, frozen
In the middle of it's...

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“Rainy day, dream away
Ah let the sun take a holiday
Flowers bathe an' ah see the children play
Lay back and groove on a rainy day”
Jimi Hendrix 1968

A weep at first
to cure a thirst
becomes a cloud bursts...

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Going through box after box
Memories floating around
Then I stumble upon parts of you
Items showing me the true cost
  Reluctantly I sift through our broken dreams
Things I thought would never end
Our past-time of smiles has...

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Burning snow falls quietly on
cold rusted wire and brittle bone.
An ancient creature looks to the horizon 
feeling is body built of razor wire and old bones, cold,
a delicate tone transmits from on far...
Wraiths walking in...

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Summer Consumes Me

Summer your salty ocean breeze brings 
the call of the wild out of me,
I hear the thunderous lion's roar and 
swishing and screeching of the red butt monkeys 
in the trees full of...

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The spear piercing through my brain...
the thorn twisting and cutting through my heart...
What could you possibly expect of me
to be caring or thoughtful, to rush to your defense
What do you want me to say, to...

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Memorial Day, as I knew it, seems many centuries ago.
When sometimes those in service came back on a joyful, 
surprise furlough.


Families, friends, fun,~oh how with laughter and great and 
gateful glee we all got together!
And...

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There was scent of a fire in the call of the wind
from a few blocks away, I could smell it today...
someone burning a pile, in this first day of fall 

Leaves and debris, with smoke...

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She was sitting on her bed when I walked in.
She hadn't eaten for days.

Her skin was pale, her eyes dead.
Her hair was greasy, and her legs and arms thin.

Her lips lost all their colour.
What happened...

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In a vast universe, I am one, all alone,
Mere speck that I am,  in a quest you may know.
Filled once again so many questions to ask,
that are timeless and ancient, since origin of man.

I'm...

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I swore I’d never be happy again…was it my own curse I laid upon myself? 
A personal skeleton song I turned into a personal vendetta
It would explain so much, yet so little in comparison
Oh, how...

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My time is free
 all I got to do is rome aimlessly 
searching for answers asking myself why
why am I here 

every things in my life don’t make sense 
and these answers I search for...

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I don't know if you realize

but when I look straight in your eyes

I get a little scared because I love you

Don't know what's got into me

You can call it insecurity

but I'm afraid it would ruin...

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Raiding hoards assemble to make the attack;
Aerodromes on high alert, we’ll fight them back.

Brave souls scramble to cockpits everyone;
Awaiting the final vector to where the deed is done.

Away boys! Away! 
And off they take to...

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Zeros to tens cruisin', hustlin' and bustlin' on Ocean Drive,
Mustangs, Ferraris and Lamborghinis slowly cruise by,
humidity glistens the skin of the scantily clad,
with hedonistic intentions good and bad,

rooftop bars, rope lines and tight one way...

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Now,where was I? 
Oh yes! 
Safely strapped inside......... 
Lets see this baby fly 

This gravity is a tricky thing........... 
Very heavy stuff 
I feel so alive! 
C'mon!, let me drive! 

I counted down too............ 
and...

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