Long Drudging Poems

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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for Judy, who stole my heart before I could part with my fears

“Is solace anywhere more comforting than that in the arms of a sister?”—Alice Walker.

Not my sister, yet it felt
Like she was my sister,...

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Imagine this- you are on earth, seeing everyone's heartbreak and love for you  and you try to apologize to them and plead that they listen to you then you realize they can neither see...

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HOPE

Oh, I have landed myself in a bad way
It is a
              very
          ...

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In to the future times, eons from now
My friends and I in newest time machine
We flew to reach a world, enchanting! Wow!
With rose thickets, meadows and lofty pines

No heat; no Sun, in there; a lone...

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I was a “why child”
but unlike many others
didn't ask my questions
right out loud
for they never elicited satisfaction-
only bizarre grown-up reactions
discomfort shown
in odd looks or awkward glances
at each other, over shoulders
uncomfortable silences
growing colder
nervous laughter
qualmish coughing
even worse-...

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At the distant verge of horizon
Slowly submerging is weary Sun
With reddened face
Bidding grudging adieus
To his day long drudging
Brooding over mandatory next come

I stood there staring at Him
I wanted to say “don’t depart”
In an automatic reflex
I...

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A shadow falls upon my heart 
compressed in a ribbon of emotion.

My mind begs for relief as my body fights
with and unknown foe.

A soul begins to war, drudging through the 
sea of decaying memoirs.

As the...

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The pearl-gray sky of early morning
harmonized with my mood;
color without color
life without meaning;
as I wandered through the streets
at a loss; no job.

My downcast eyes;
eye contact unsought;
watching my feet step by drudging step,
came across a twenty-dollar...

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Spring semester has started.
We’re all immersed in the ritual of change
and totally committed to that descent into madness
to the relentless drabness, the flatness, the blandness
for the hours, days and weeks of study
and a bone-deep fatigue...

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Drudging at the foot of despondency 
I dwell
floating in-between the far and the now
too tired to stand
knowing I'll be knocked back down
kicked and beaten 
by my own inner beast
a feast of undue proportion
salted and dried
a...

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As we raised ridges on reluctant lands
Our poor spirits wallowed on dwarfed harvest
Castle offered solace to her drudging hands
And she threw my sanguine name off her chest

In the king's arms she twit our blooming love
And...

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Written: December 11, 2023
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While drudging impresses to cease,
        Within the ethereal forbearance of night
...

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We are men with tortured souls,
Forged to fray for what is right,
Drudging through piercing blows,
Focused upon a dimming light.

Lurching through the darkest path,
Confounded by our cynical ways,
As we daunt others with our wrath,
Feel our essence...

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Cling not, to currents of kleptocracy.
Seek not, slithering shortcuts.
Like molding wood in molten guts -
Revolutionary, make that your story. 

Slanderous slogans of snakes
dull deep, deaden desires.
Drudging dogma deludes the mind,
souls shattered, silenced in stupidity.

No magic...

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Shackled by the past
But I am the one
The one who holds the keys
Will I ever escape
All of the tragic memories
Will I break free
Of what here that is holding me
I know the answer
To the questions that...

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It's a tale of a hero
And his sale as zero
He held his hopes in the morning
And end in the blend of the moaning

He had hopes of a champion
He used the strength of a stallion
His toiling...

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