Long Wielder Poems

In Test cricket…we talk quite a bit about the assumption to be a hit…need gumption and grit…another platitude about the right attitude at any latitude…selectors gratitude for vigour..rigour..fortitude..with a cheeky sneaky touch of turpitude.

Not just...

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Is there any other sort of sport.. that can hold a candle to having to handle

Getting caught in the ripsnort onslaught scandal…as speedsters hold court

Fraught as they face a serious deleterious imperious express pace ace

At...

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Bridgett Faerie leapt from the flames with a pop and a fizzle
Delighting her elemental dad, Hellfire, wielder of the flame
Her mother gave her the power to make leaves dance 
Her purpose not apparent yet, but...

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" My mother shed her protective love around me and without knowing why, people sensed that I had value." ~Maya Angelou

" As mothers and daughters, we are connected with one another. My mother is the...

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I am a creature like others, taking for granted each breath,
making mistakes, some no amount of contrition can erase
which makes my faults no less dismal than death.
Unless by the mercy of my Creator, I am...

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Curse you, curse you forgiving and patient heart
you would receive a thousand papercuts 
before admitting a person's fault
I don't know why
Why are you so dead-set on letting me embrace, witness
the brutally honest elegantness dwelling inside...her,...

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as my pen positions itself
between my fingers  and pillows itself on my hand…
…I know not why I write and still I’ve got to take this poem for a ride….

Thoughts spew inside my head –...

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I am lost
I can feel no presence
I know of no human or animal that has a measure of significance alike mine
I have a teacher
A teller of all there is to be known of the world
She...

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Voices in my head are babbling everything vicious.
I can't take it anymore, Life has been a tyrant to us for so many years.
Time to let loose and not let the super reign over us with...

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This poem covers the greatest story ever told
Greater than all the kings and all their gold
This story will bring about deep reflection
Starting with the Immaculate Conception
Of all the stories this is the greatest of all
A...

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Weaving rays of sunshine to make a fairy veil,
Tiniest of stitches  all to no avail, 
For when the clouds slid across the sun
All that tender work was instantly undone.
Mabs never got her veil, the...

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Simple Pleasures
© Ben Burton 4-7-2015

Remember when
In the heat of summer
Daddy would come home
And bark the delightful order
"Put on your bathing suits"
While he hooked up the hose pipe
To the front yard spigot
Streaking into your bedroom
Getting naked,...

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He was the tribal elder
A most respected man
He called for a meeting
Of every single clan
And all stood there
In a silence unbroken
Waiting for The Elder
For His words spoken

He talked of the murder
Of the planet of their...

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Wielder of the Chronicle of White
Traversing time to right the wrongs
A land turns to sand beneath his feet
His friends follow suit

Two kingdoms battle for the grainy plains
One wields numbers, one wields technology
A false queen, a...

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In depth and breadth of shadows, it prowls around
always flowing, wafting on air, ne'er making a sound
It exists in dejection and rejection, and always found
in silence, too loud when its raucous echoes resound

No deafening roar...

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hieroglyphics would have been more appealing
in epitomizing a backward spin to the ancient scenes
the heart of a glorious dynasty to have existed
a time machine of reviving words will do the trick
and pay tribute to the...

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It's shadowed in darkness, growling like a hound
Creeping about, whispering as it slithers around
Begging for attention, for it desires to be found
Silence is loud when its echoes continually resound

Behold, it comes masked, disguised in these...

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shadowed in darkness, sniffing as a hound
creeping about without releasing  a sound
begging to be noticed, wanting to be found
silence is too loud when its echoes resound

behold, it comes creeping  to known places
among those...

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Zeus, thou art the king of gods,
The ruler of the heavens,
Wielder of Aeigis and the lightning rod,
Which are your personal weapons.

Poseidon, thou art the earth-shaker,
The ruler of the seas,
Weilder of the trident, brother of the...

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A wayward heart in the wild, 
Trying to wield the knife of hope. 
Hope for one thing; hope for one friend 
The only way to guard her heart 
The only way when others have failed
With...

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How glorious a time
Camelot...in all it's splendor,
magical in gallantry and chivalry

The round table
where all seats shared equally
ideas of common value,such valor
in justice met,so much honor,
King Arthur's kingdom kept....

Excaliber,the sword of truth,
only in such strength,
can the...

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Agony is nigh ever-present in humanity. 
It is the nefarious antagonist that unabashedly lurks in the shadows;
And With detestable malice, it strikes with a hellish wrath. 

This abhorrent lash is the unintentional crafter of heroism.
It...

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O Sweet poem 
Wielder of undisclosed tales
Conqueror of unyielding hearts
Comforter of inoperable minds
Consoler of inconsolable souls
Utterer of the most unutterable dictions,
You have kept secrets for poets
In the deepest corners of your heart
I implore you, 
Keep...

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He persuades me into oblivion
He feeds me sadistic scenarios that wears down my memories with rust to dust
He makes me dance while I feed him my insecurities
My overwhelming insecurities
I give in
He warms me and warns...

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Words unspoken lay between us.
An open gulf, yawning abyss.
You sit on the far side, as I remember the words that were.

Then she comes and speaks aloud.
She, wielder of permission to say that which I wish...

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