Long Predates Poems

Oh well I got an angry email to begin my day
Because of my last post on the Jabidah thing yesterday
Galit sa akin but greeted me with Assalamu alaykum.
And kung personal Moro friends ko naman ito...

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THE KINTA VALLEY
OR : Dreams of the Sleeping Man
        (Anthropomorphic name of a mountain profile viewed from The Valley)

The sleeping man dreams on in calm detachment
While in valley...

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A kangaroo in dungarees hops hopefully 
	To win first prize in the Favs contest hot
		On the heels of an enlightening glow worm

Surely life is no competition but the stage lights
	Reverberates all the promising contenders
		Reincarnation oils...

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Uther’s Last Battle
by Michael R. Burch

When Uther, the High King,
unable to walk, borne upon a litter
went to fight Colgrim, the Saxon King,
his legs were weak, and his visage bitter.
“Where is Merlyn, the sage?
For today I...

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The problem I have with religions is that they forget themselves. All of the great religions start out from a MYSTERY. Something or someone happens that is unique, remarkable, almost incomprehensible in terms of everyday...

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Spectrums, Tints and Shades

Like the painter’s palette awash with hues and tones – white to tint and black to shade, greys scattered in between: 

What risks we run:
Shaving a little too close that we get...

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No antihistamine can 
unblock the lifetime
accumulation of stoppered emotional gunk
zapping, undermining, and polluting spunk
mine early life in retrospective avast flunk
stripped mined wasteland qua sinkhole,

where eternal reverberations soundlessly plunk
inescapable deafening, and
blinding this targeted
"scapegoat" bullied by most...

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Nile spreads through the valley like a snake
Pyramids look awesome in rays of sun about to wake
Pyramids are strong constructions can even take small earthquake
They are made of limestone granite or bricks that in sun...

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FALCONS, EAGLES, AND CROWS

Your aweful (sic) countenance of frowning 
eyes and sharp beak predates history.
The pharaohs knew you, but you ruled the air 
for millenia before they built their pyramids
and monuments. Even then, they knew...

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Mossy vines served as camouflage for a decaying headstone.
The inscription is illegible, but that matters not to me.
At this centuries-old grave I place flowers and moonstone --
As requested by my ethereal savior, friend, lover, devotee.

My...

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Inside my mind are traces of memories , godlike thoughts and limitless synergies. How can I 
explain this gift?, inspirational thoughts freeze framed in time carried up by heavenly lifts. I 
can't explain my gift,...

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Amen - Ra is the God that my Egyptian zodiac says I am born under.
I took interest in the Egyptian zodiac for two reasons;
first because of the name Amen, and second because it predates the...

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Barter of goods was before gold or paper before electronic
Transfers of the digit inflaters..How are dots and numbers
Balanced and checked? How many hyphens will i need for
A floor? How many dots to create a strong...

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G    golden motifs enamor a brown tapestry 
I      in galore of grace, a head is held high.
R     resplendent glory of the tallest creation...

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The Secret of Emotional Mist

Evincing nothing, she remained mute
To nuanced intimations of intimacy.
There was nothing left to conclude but that
The greatest prison is boredom,
The greatest torture --- betrayal.

Thus we parted in the concrete now
Leaving behind...

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Every day is special, but not all you’d recognize
The Fluffy Slipper Lint Day just took me by surprise
It occurs in late October, the 26th is set aside
When people all over the world celebrate fairies that...

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God
© Ben Burton 4-21-2015

Some seize a belief and try to fit
The model to the mold they've built
With seven billion in the ring
Consuming doubt, assuming schemes

Yet, does not change the narrative
Bequeathed as life's most precious gift
From...

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Mightier than fibs and sharp swords, 
Manacled truth will with time prevail
Against high peak and gigantic vale, 
And glossed lips' deodorized words. 

Sharper than lucre's nectared studs
Stabs tested truth's right-driven nail;
Till all wrong-worn tongues wax...

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Some claim Thanksgiving is unworthy
of recognition and celebration.
They feel ruthless white men
invented it at the expense
of those they exploited.

These pundits take a narrow view
of Thanksgiving this time of year,
limited to America's history,
as if it is...

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A tender soul, barely seven,
trying to figure out the distance between earth and heaven,
trying to find a way to fly,
to touch the stars way up high. 

The heart of her curiosity 
beats stronger than the...

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LINE OF STUDY

a fascinating
experiment
incorporating an
 interest
¬ice of
hierarchical
 distinctions
a
destination
 intended
 predates
 this sangfroid
blunted by
retelling

  anonymously
    in
appreciation
 improvised &
defined in
   opportunities
along the way
 THIS IS AN OPEN(organic) FORM VERSE without grammatical symbols the ' open' relies upon 'the one breath limitation' & so inherently requires the 'reader' (reciter) to input and respond thus making the...

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Oh, treacherous pull of endless floor
under our light inconsequential trample,
in equal measure, the feather is won
cursed by thee, to its inevitable fall.

Thy naked invisible attraction
sways the seas in moonlight dates,
holds north and south feet kissin',
and...

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I lay periwinkle petals
   and 
scintillating seashells
upon the 
      quenched quartz
under 
glistening glow
         of moonlight
for a love that
  ...

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