Long Tearfully Poems

"Sentenced to hang in the town of Lincoln,
Billy made his bold escape.
Both of his guards died from thinking,
that a shackled young boy couldn't break away."

I've often wondered what thoughts were going through his head
as he...

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"Sentenced to hang in the town of Lincoln,
Billy made his bold escape.
Both of his guards died from thinking,
that a shackled young boy couldn't break away."

I've often wondered what thoughts were going through his head
as he...

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Sentenced to hang in the town of Lincoln,
Billy made his bold escape.
Both of his guards died from thinking
that a shackled young boy couldn't break away.
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I've often wondered what thoughts were going through his head
as he...

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Date:  April  4,  2051

Dolly had Molly and Holly delayed
In the dinning area while she secured 
Any loose ends. They had most of
The assemblages in place. The aisle
The flowers? Delilah had questions 
"Mommy...

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I woke up early this morning contemplating, 
pondering over the meaning of this dream, 
Dreams that take me to mountains and valleys
Dreams that lands me into big cities,
Cheerful dreams ,troubling dreams
Dreams with no fitting answer...

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Though waves of tears 
                              ...

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You never see the tears I weep father on your mossy stone,
      Until we meet again in Heaven you are safe within my heart;
We had a special bond, the perfect,...

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                   Those Days of Covid and Roses
         ...

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Let the kids grow
They're kids in the hood that wants to go the negative route.
They're    kids in the hood that think being all good and optimistic is a waste of time.
Please let...

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Never Too Late To Say "I Love You" Until...

Futile lamentations reverberate along
corridors of times long gone, this papa
tearfully apologetic revisiting his base,
fitfully lachrymose torturing unrelenting
voluminous wrongs against thee dearest
precious daughter aware poetic/ prosaic

ministrations cannot substitute...

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"Father does not see the mournful sad tears,
that fall on a mossy stone;
O, my broken heart weeps.

And I recall running into your open arms a little girl innocent,
      you were...

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"Father does not see the mournful sad tears,
        that fall on a mossy stone;
              O,...

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Put down my pen,
                               ...

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Well and it's a winter wonderland tonight
by the light of a bright full moon but
THIS IS NOT ANOTHER LOVE SONG
oh no it's more like a dagger through the
heart and a ghost from the past come...

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This coming New Year
Brings with it scattered rose petals
Flowing tearfully in the air
And I dream
Of Love, picking them up one by one
To assemble them in some sort
Of unique bouquet,
Handing which to me
He would say,
Here, this...

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She tearfully told him, "I'm sorry, but I'm pregnant." 
" What do you want me to do?" " I don't know!" 
" What would your mother and father think?" "I can't
tell them!"They were both teenagers...

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Fever and Chills

History writes itself
invisible pens find surfaces unknown
private life
public life
fever and chills sleep together
heaving corrosive air
from colorless lungs
hearing but their own moans
their own cries of ecstasy
how loud
how soft

From boardroom
to bedroom
clinging to manufactured essence
flesh bleeds...

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When I was a Big Brother
for Jason,
an African-American 10 year old male,
we went into his apartment
so he could look around
for a long overdue library book.

As I accompanied him
from room to sparsely furnished room,
looking in nearly...

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“In your eyes,
Yes, in your eyes,
I see an emerging paradise...
Close but far life made you be,
In a heaven so far away from me.”

She sat there crying,
On the left corner of her empty room,
Her feelings burdened...

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© Ben Burton 6/18/2016

It's difficult to feel good
When you see
A long lost loved one
The meeting predicated
On the death of another
You both loved
But, at least one of you
Barely saw at all
Once those early years were gone
So...

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I looked through the curtains in a shinning sunny day
                         Through...

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Reminiscing of days past
Old feelings resurfaced
To see the sun shine again.
As my thoughts replayed,
I stood silently as I
Reflected back on a
Once in a lifetime experience.
It was a beautiful September day.
The day we met and locked...

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This quest arose for Jeanne d'Arc,
   A peasant girl engrossed in prayer.
   When voices deep inside her head,
   Spoke of her future, saving France.
   During the passing...

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Life is hard and then you die
in the meantime you mostly cry
It seems to me that you have been changed
your attitude somewhat rearranged
 
The place you've been is not so nice
and a terrible place to...

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On the banks of river folks gathered solemnly
Where in repose lay the body of his father;
Dry dead-wood was stacked in layers they built,
Fire was crackling, burning, heads were bowing,
Memorializing deeds in voices of the elders--
That...

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