Long Watch and wait Poems

“The Remaining”

PROLOGUE:  “Terra Firma and The Bitumen”


"The slow descent into Hell
Had led Her mind to escape to Heaven
Her firmament was Her Mind
Her body just a Shell"


Heaven for Her existed in The Dream
She called Her...

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I awake to the dawning of another day
To my knees, I fall and begin to pray
This prayer is different, unlike any before
All of the sudden, a sound outside my door

Upon my feet, I run down...

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Sometimes,
not often enough,
I stop my morning routine
to watch the feeding drama breathe feathered flurries in and out,
on, 
and under,
my side-yard bird feeder

Outside my kitchen windows
over this morning's sudsy sink,
looking across a twinkling white field
of early...

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Prejudice

You say…You are different, I don’t like you
You skins color effects my view
Get behind me what are you think you’re doing
This is not approved, you’re not approved

   I say…Do not judge me you...

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"50 Words for Poe: Revenant"


Everywhere he looks for Her his melancholic Ghost Girl
does our lachrymose ignoble Phantom in his own thunder storm


In the Wind Song he listens
Her elusive whispers hail from another dimension 
echolocation through...

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It will be worth it all when we see, Jesus Christ
Just one look at His smiling face all of our 
problems and our tears Will become
totally erased from our memories
Once we see Christ our beloved...

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It may be in the evening,
When you are sitting home alone,
And you have time watching the sun goes down,
Sinking slowly over the ocean blue,
As the clock ticks loudly on the shelf, 
You listen to children...

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A visitor, 
I sit by night and day
unmoved to pen a loving word
no more the Muse its lightning thrusts
of inspiration cast my woeful way
while waiting, watching, 
nothing left
of hope, of comfort – 
nothing right to...

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In a windswept vale the tree had spread its branches
Its shale like trunk defined by weather had many wounds
One in particular had hollowed inside this stanchion
Braced against pervading skies and silk-watered lagoons
So clearly defined a...

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we're all natural born watchers just looking around
at the TV, the Internet and newspapers all over town
be it something or somebody we usually just watch and wait
to look up to anything that may reinforce our...

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I merge with the painting
Am I within shadows?
Spending time in the gallery was uplifting but I was drawn to Valette's "Under the Windsor Bridge"
Noted how I was reflected onto the painting as I took a...

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The emergency room of a hospital can be a scary and frustrating place…
You see worry, pain and frustration on each and every face…

And that is where I found myself…just the other day
as they ran some...

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Over worked imaginations of a fine tuned mind of several misunderstanding thoughts that were dreams that changes daily like the seasons.  I can't explain it; Its an emotional dreamer with shared thoughts that is...

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Tying the little letter with the softest green ribbon, 
I tucked it safely inside a large tree, the one she often leaned against in the park. 
A few days passed, I eagerly awaited her return....

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My garden is filled in pots                             ...

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© Ben Burton 12/18/2015

Some politicians claim that Muslims are the most abused
It isn't even close... in victim-hood it is the Jews
Obama speaks of Israel like they're the enemy
That fact can open doors to endless possibilities

Remember...

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A vulture and owl
                        Solitary and predatory
     ...

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"Even so come quickly Lord Jesus!"
"Even so come quickly Lord Jesus!
"Even so come quickly Lord Jesus!"

"We know that you are coming back some day and we'll fly away."
"We know that you are coming back some...

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Rain,
Partial transcendence though a small sliver of heaven on earth.
Condensed droplets of dew, 
Crystal gold, diamond refraction. 
Needs no help, accomplishes purity by merely being, 
Transcends touch,
Refreshing rivers rush over red eyes,
purity melds with the...

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Blue Moon tonight which is very rare
It happens on New Years Eve once in nineteen years
Will you be watching to see if it peeks through
In New York City, Albany, or Calimazu

Maybe in Ormand Beach, Florida
Utah,...

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I do not hear the words, far too busy in my ears
laying golden tracks of forceful movement 
They carry me away, away. always to away.
Stretch horizon, many ones and zeros, far away.
Starlit destination on that...

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Father
The look in your eyes as you came through the door,
Holding your chest and staggering to the floor.
Watching you lay there and see the life slowly fade,
I wonder of the mistakes I have made.
I am...

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There is a harbor, dark and still, 
That formed ten thousand years ago. 
It lies upon the western sill 
Of Grand Manan, in indigo. 

Seagulls soar above the cliffs. 
Puffins nest on jagged rock. 
From...

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It had been six lonely months
Since the love of his life had passed
His heart lay in solace
His mind had lots of regrets
What could he had done different
Did he tell her "I love you" enough
Maybe she...

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Easter approaches.
with the days counted on the calender
each year I watch and wait to observe
the little boxes and little slashes
get moved on down the row 
untill the month is over

and I can move on with...

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