Long Dead(a) Poems

A WISH FOR ALL FISH

Washed up on shores around the world
Already dead, a whale, a dolphin a shark, 
All marine life is suffering, the situation
Has become absurd, 
The facts real and stark!
My Fairy God mother...

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INTANGIBLE ASSET – The Transcript

He learned very young rather vaguely very untidily and blissfully unaware. He thought the only reason to do something was to do it differently to establish its difference by his own...

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I was in 4th grade - when most kids are 9 or 10 years old.  Not yet to the semi-adulthood of the teenage years, and not just "little kids" anymore, either.  You might...

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I crossed over this caring bridge the sun shined 
so bright I hardly noticed the humvee at the light 
signaling green to go and what do you know bam 
in the blink of thee eye...

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I can feel the fire burning inside me and the universe is pining after thee,  the heat is running all over the town and it has everyone spell bound;.

The boys are wetting their head...

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I am beggar 
I am thief 
I am Eve 

Buried by belief 

I am leader 
I am breeder 
I am Adam 

Narcissistic feeder 

I lie inside the doorway 
Unable now to die 
I see the...

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© Ben Burton 2-20-2015

If I were Edgar Allan Poe
I'd been dead many years ago


Two score, no more, the poet bore
Before rejoining his Lenore


Reflections now, from sixty-five
I'm wondering how I have survived


For, having shared his mental...

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It's gone, the thundering voice of destruction, leaving behind the shattered lives and loves of yesterday.  The darkness is broken only by the sounds of silence.   We have survived the tornado.

There is...

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If a book has footnotes, though it is fiction,

How do you classify it?

Historical fiction has made some inroads

To this chimera crossroads

But science fiction

Ironically, is behind the times

I’ve kept writing vigils like Virgil.

I muse ‘neath the...

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Murder of the Bethlehem Children
Matthew 2:16-18

When you consider the wealth of love, 
Language, fashion and script of cree,
We have in today’s society - stealth dove,
Then you see past societies as plea.

Savage, murderous and passionate,
The governments...

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He cursed himself for accepting the dare.  He never believed in ghosts or haunted houses. He thought it was an easy way to make a few bucks if he spent a night in a...

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For weeks I wandered, from one canteen to another, from one battle pack to 
another, seeking the morsel of food there-in stored. Mournful the wind whistling 
through the bones, and shattered dead, a ghoulish symphonic...

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True, Moses wrote of righteousness, one based upon the law.
But Paul proffered an alternate, eschewed the tragic flaw.
Salvation based on works alone: a concept misapplied.
For all, not most, have fallen short; to live thus was...

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My sergeant said you've been trained well you know what to do
Your assignment an ambush, do not return until the sky is blue.
We gathered our weapons and lots of ammo
And waited till dark then said...

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PRAYER    FOR   RAVEN    REBORN

It seems only yesterday Raven was a child, but she is gone now,
Wandering in unknown mist-shrouded fields with  no flowers gay.
Does she recall...

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Listen to the sound of my fading link and a dying breath

Our poems are more than just words

That's the world we live in are more than walls with doors that we need to walk through...

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What a World!


By Izunna Okafor

Tears roll down my cheeks
Beholding the palm tree I tapped 
From his knowledge of blue ink
With a bow, lofting off a huge gap

What a World !

Our intellectuals have all died
And the...

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The Death of Trump

If Trump were dead, would God take head,
Life on the line, for such a swine?
What better death to pledge your breath,
To future good and brotherhood!

Trump’s minions die, would angels sigh,
They burn in...

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"Love is eternal, it never dies, it is forever. . . "

                      ...

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FOUR CHRISTMAS PRESENTS

Four Christmas presents were laid down so very long ago,
The very first ones to be given of which that I know.
Seemed not to be much to those ones who may have gathered round
And...

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Kenya rebel
Kenya hero
Hero of the people
Hero executed
Executed by hanging
Executed and buried
Buried in a mass gave
Buried in the morning
Morning of mourning
Morning end
End of his fight
End of his short life
Life as a freedom fighter
Life full of confusing...

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A angels rebirth/ A fallen star crashing to earth/ Just a small dent in a huge planet/  Find 
the devil now!  He's the baby-bandit?  He snatched up the babe and ran./ ...

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i didn't build the world so/dont ask me to fix it.
i didn't invent the wheel so/don't ask me to twist it.
i didn't label the classes so/don't ask me to climb them.
i didn't make the people...

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Word to your mother I'm the over weight lover
A beat of the clock to watch the grand tick tock
Blowing up the system in my shorts
Summer...Summer...Summer is here nothing to fear

Girls in hot shorts the curves...

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We live together

Master: We are together.
Vilmos: Yes.
Master: This is a storm. This is rain.
Vilmos: Yes. It’s our storm and rain.

Vilmos: I forgot that English woman.
Master: That’s right.
Vilmos: I need another woman.
Master: That’s right. 
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