Long Deservedly Poems

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Abe Lincoln As A democrat
© Ben Burton 8-25-2014

The evil of men being sold
Long past, since Mr. Lincoln's fight
Still, dark suspicion blooms and grows
And loots the cause of civil rights

The North designed a whipping horse
Down in...

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Well, well, well!
The whole world knows by now, impossible dreams can come true,
In the game of professional soccer, it has just been proven at Leicester,
Starting the season with a laughable 5,000 to 1 odds of...

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The Bund China Squash Open 2015

The Bund China  Squash Open 2015 was recently played  out in Shanghai…
It was the first squash major as a  season’s opener after a summer break…

The unseeded hopefuls...

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Dear America,

You have been deservedly deemed ‘the beautiful’;
and without a doubt, you have been bountifully blessed.
This July 4, 2016, we gladly celebrate your 240th birthday.
From sea to shining sea; from Canadian to Mexican border;
From the...

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‘ Legendary …’  ( Part  4 (of) 4 ) 



Now, that the Maiden was Unaided, Quickly, ‘He’ Located, Her Craftily
Beth, was in A Flurry, Too Much in a Hurry to Hear Turning of...

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In our pursuit of oneness,                              ...

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Having loved ones is an incredibly comforting feeling, but when you enter the vast 
landscape of the mind and see only depression and despair,  you become aware 
that you are alone in your misery....

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Wonder's Mother, Misery

      Digging up the philosophical topic:
      Disputing bliss as the ultimate state. 
      Argues that striving for worthy...

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As the darkness reaching out for the darkness, 
her black scalpel eyes met mine across 
the crushing divide of a revelling throng. 
The amateur axe band strangled a bargain basement 
hard rock song, born of...

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Note: Although Mr. Reagan was alive when this was
written, unfortunately, Mr. Reagan never received
this letter. It got misplaced and was discovered
years later.

Dear Mr. Reagan.

I wish you the best and the happiest 
on your 90th birthday....

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Ignominy hewed into comeuppance, 
where yours truly aggrieved state 
far worse fate  
than becoming deceased, though 
years gone by since meek kin 
grievously afflicted soundly did berate
  
deplorable marital indiscretion 
this mister (wordsmith)...

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The often unnoticed first strategic step
in bullying
is to isolate.

Religious
political
economic
and/or sexual bullying
begins, already,
feeling entitled to pervasively disempower,
dissociate,
disinvest,
unenlighten,
excommunicate,
lock up,
terminate from employment,
send to the reservation,
asylum
ghetto,
wrong side 
of the LeftBrain dominant
self-righteous tracks.

Deeply separate,
divide and, thereby, expose
and bully
that Other,
or those...

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Nonagenarian father afflicted,
his body electric awry
with congenital heart failure,
before long twill bid existence bye
whose physical well being -
corporeal essence inevitably will die

unavoidable manifest destiny...
accompanied into afterlife courtesy death
envision caricature immortal grim reaper
moost ofttimes (normally leering)
brandishing...

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Comeuppance generated
desire to kill self awoke
resolution to make amends
bedevils this bloke
who deservedly receives just desserts
invisible hand doth choke
living daylights, hence
nightmare scenario I evoke.

Following objective forthwith
pained papa doth aim
constitutes feeble attempt made
to reach out and accept...

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One passing day come the end of March
just before or after I now can barely
remember as so far back was it

The clock's jumped forward or went
back to either summer or fall

Whilst sat in front of...

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Often there are times wild imagination,
leads to a lasting sensational elation.Quote: Poet’s own
Imagine
Imagine having no bed to sleep on
When it's cold outside and winter drags on
Or carrying all you own on the streets
Depending on handouts...

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Don't blame me, reader, for my passion - 
I can't keep silent of one youth.
I can't resist the strong temptation 
Of telling you some handsome truth.

That youth was born to show the power -
The strength...

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Even in her weakness,
her adoration multiplies
oh...... the animals are also not left out
as the serpent of the wilderness
finds grace under her shadows
and the dragons of the forests
dance to her hymns.

Of all the men showcasing their...

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I am not defined by addiction ...
Yes, it has certainly altered my course,
And I sacrificed much to that demoness over time,
For she is dressed with heavenly garb and sings in a sweet tongue,

So sweet, at...

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The ground weeps with smoke and falls like a nation.       
Topped with ash and cinders of their feet, chest and nails, 
the ground cries out as she is pinched...

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If you don’t support free speech
There’s something wrong with you.
If you don’t support free speech
You’re evil through and through.
If you don’t support free speech
Then you can go get screwed.
If you don’t support free speech
There’s something...

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She stands by the window
Looking out over the blue
For soon he will sail home
He lover oh so true

It was many weeks ago
From Valletta harbour he sailed
For the Atlantic cause
Following the convoy trail

From its industrial ports
On...

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The rest of the way is easy. The flesh seems to just tear away effortlessly as you cut through the rest.

Their hands no longer grip you, for they lay on the ground before you. They...

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A beauty so rare in it's habitat
Endangered they are by the human brat
Like many others on our planet earth
Our greed devalues their living worth

These Siberian Stripe-rs from the Trans-Caucasus lands
To view it in it's wilds...

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