Long Chalky Poems
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The Payload
"The Payload"
The payload
came crashing down
like rain expelled
from the fat belly
of a ruinous pregnant cloud
bilious with buxom promise
it came crashing down
like school fish released
from the tight confines
of a course rope...
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Categories:
chalky, fantasy, muse, mystery, symbolism,
Form:
Narrative
Bleeding Before Rome -2
Yet at this very moment the cathedral was crumbling
down upon the cries of foresaken refugees,
the monastery's walls wobbling from war's wreckage,
and as the black bursts billowed into sun drenched brutality
with the bodies of...
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Categories:
chalky, culture, heart, war, world war ii,
Form:
Epic
Side Trip
(*The Gift)
This here is a side trip, nothing more,
To our country home far and away.
Grandparents own one by the seashore,
This a gift, gramps in-law and mentor,
They raised teen/gramps, not a runaway.
Gramps helped older sis and...
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Categories:
chalky, meaningful, memory, muse, travel,
Form:
Rhyme
The Work: Summer Solstice, Avebury
Across the land this morn, a roll of light
Gave birth to shadows, cast from chalky hills
The larks ascended, sang away the night
Vibrated sky to waking with their trills
‘Tis Summer; round the circle swirls the...
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Categories:
chalky, love, mystery, mythology, nature, summer, symbolism, wisdom,
Form:
Iambic Pentameter
In the Shallows
I bent over to touch my toes
and the ground tore open like a backbone.
I tried to feed myself the sky;
to...
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Categories:
chalky, allegory, confusion, depression, fantasy, hope, imagination, life,
Form:
Free verse
Echoes Of The Silent Shore
There come those nights—you know the sort:
The ones where the moon is a tear-stained cheek, pressed to heaven’s passenger seat window,
Toying with the tides to the rhythm of some melancholy song that only she knows.
She’s...
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Categories:
chalky, love, metaphor, moon, nature, sea,
Form:
Free verse
Cooking With Jim
COOKING WITH JIM
actually, with him in spirit, in the kitchen
of his quaint...
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Categories:
chalky, food,
Form:
Verse
Out of the Shadows
A curse. It's what she was ascertained to be.
A plague which has been put on the burden of the residents of the world.
People discarded her as mere trash for they considered her as an ill-omen.
Misfortune...
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Categories:
chalky, feelings, , Lullaby,
Form:
I do not know?
Young
My green evenings and
honey suckle sunset were
warmer than my kid fists
that wrapped like velcro
around those tall patches
of tiny yard onions
and my chalk-stained jean skort
packed with hand-picked acorns
that spilled from my pockets like
apple juice as...
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Categories:
chalky, childhood, fantasy, growing up, heart, old, green,
Form:
Free verse
The Prismatic Self
I say the word and feign a Freudian slip
From between its legs duplicities drip
Often doubling as a quip and tasting chalky, just a bit
History will record the troubling truth
that I never existed if I don’t...
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Categories:
chalky, color, god, introspection, mirror, poetry, voice, write,
Form:
Quatrain
Lines, Launch Angles and Curve Balls
Lines, Launch Angles and Curve Balls
The boys of summer
Set up for a season of lines, launch angles and curve balls
With straight chalky lines leading to a field of dreams
Where line-ups keep the line moving...
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Categories:
chalky, baseball,
Form:
Free verse
The Demise of Pangaea -Part 2-
You don’t know how parted we are
Uncharted we are
The piano keys sooth the turbulent sea and music melts the burning icebergs
Pride sinking a ship…giving into nature
Hands severed and torn, pressing lightly on the stained ivory
The...
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Categories:
chalky, angst, black african american, confusion, depression, political,
Form:
Free verse
Tonight
I guess this is it, I gave it my best shot
But this is now the only option I got
I know you'll be angry, maybe even be sad
But there was no other choice I had
I've planned...
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Categories:
chalky, suicide, me, peace, body, me, peace,
Form:
Rhyme
A Painting
It's a quaint little street, bustling with tourists
Shops selling ice creams and coffees, sandals, and seashells...
People rushing, a bike or two in the street, a car searching for a place to park
A baby cries, and...
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Categories:
chalky, introspectiontime,
Form:
Narrative
Prime Mover
Leave a man to him and his words
and telescopic terrains will open,
as splendid as the midwinter constellations
sprayed in a barbarous sublimity across the sky,
with the serene orb of Jupiter hanging unflickering over the land.
They tell...
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Categories:
chalky, inspiration, language, poetry,
Form:
Free verse
The House We Don'T Live In Yet
The morning sun stretches across the sky,
charging a palette of blues, greens and chalky coastal whites.
The smell of salt is carried by the early morning humid wind,
and seagulls search for their...
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Categories:
chalky, home, house, beach, garden, house, morning, sun,
Form:
Verse
The Lost
Billowing taupe clouds, hunker down and hem in the Peninsula,
The morning rips open
A glimpse of sun shone; a lemon curd slivers between slits of of silver illumination
The first hint of light glances up frothing crests...
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Categories:
chalky, lost, love, ocean, philosophy,
Form:
Free verse
Imbibing Icing of Isolation
Inside familiar folds of my hanging apron
I encounter a blinkless miniature figurine
Glossy, posable, plastic as a Lego creation
Loyal component of kitchen enforces routine
Breakfast allures with buttery muffins toasted
Lunch- a- lot predicts sandwich towers teetering
Dinner...
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Categories:
chalky, character, i am,
Form:
Quatrain
Vanity
With a cosmopolitan tabloid draped upon her lap,
A girls sits at her vanity wearing an underdress unstrapped.
The woman on the page portrays perfection with a pleasing smile,
Upon her curvy contoured shape she draped in an...
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Categories:
chalky, beauty, mirror, society,
Form:
Couplet
A Fractured View
Swans row the sky
just feet above the copper water.
Gulls twist their necks to watch
a lone sailor on the prow
of a sludge-decked dredger.
On the slate thatched gambrels
of a lesser known roofs
spotters search for night bombers,
the...
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Categories:
chalky, poetry,
Form:
Free verse
The Old Farmhouse On the Prairie
I see an old house alone on the plains,
abandoned a century or more,
wood siding faded to a chalky gray,
with rotting planks nailed right across the door.
Boards on all the windows, except for one,
and not a...
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Categories:
chalky, age, house, imagery, introspection, memory, sad, winter,
Form:
Rhyme
O Wallace
O Wallace, I heard, and could not believe
Like the school days when things you conceived
Made us aghast or grieved
And anxious for the next thing up your sleeve.
You were our magician
Bringing humor out of no where
The...
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Categories:
chalky, friendship, nostalgia, satireheart, longing, heart,
Form:
Elegy
This Sceptic Aisle
I dained that I'd distress the Dutch,
Refrain the French with such - and - such.
'Gainst Germans I'd my victory forge,
Churchillian chants in Cheddar Gorge.
Send Poles packing from our building site,
Put the Belgians - bang -...
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Categories:
chalky, death, divorce, england, fate, independence day, irony,
Form:
Rhyme
Cliffs of Dover
Cliffs of Dover
© Ben Burton
Leah, lovely Leah, looking good and well tonight
As you walk the Cliffs of Dover with a faint, but regal, smile
And paint your wistful dreams on the facing's chalky white
The Cliffs of...
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Categories:
chalky, allegory,
Form:
Ballad
Scandinavia
Scandinavia
Finland is the whitest country in the world
I read and according to the article in
the Sunday paper, happy in their whiteness
People in Scandinavia tend to be pale-faced
Sweden too, was white and still is, but lately
people...
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Categories:
chalky, absence, africa, art, beach, child,
Form:
Blank verse