Plundered Poems

I WILL NEVER BE A POET

...I stopped dreaming after defying the reaper.
My existence has no shine,
I cling to life like a suicidal soul
flirting with its own boundaries.

Reckless, never fanatic,
I spit out their dogmas ...

Public Clocks

...At first his anger was hotter than July
Or, rather, he was plundered by the weight of
Sorrow —heavier than the ice of January;
The kind of stolid ice that thickened Niagara Falls
Like frozen soup...

Blackland Prairie

...BLACKLAND PRAIRIE

From Red River down to San Antone,  
The Blackland Prairie’s all but gone—  
Scoured clean by progress, tilled and torn,  
By “civilized” greed, excess born,  
A plundered la...

CONSUMED BY FIRE 2024

...
The day you left, a shadow fell,
No word, no truth, just prison's hell.
She claimed your life, a cruel decree,
"Power of attorney," for all to see.

While slumber held, she crept unseen,
Your...

Bitter Sweet

...Late at night when I’m alone in my bed.
A soft feather pillow under my head.
My mind goes drifting down memory street
when we were together and life was sweet.

We meet at a wedding, we dance al...

PRECIOUS PLANET

...Our precious planet plundered and poisoned.    
We bite the hand that feeds us day on day        
And hide our waste hoping it goes away.      
Our greedy ways we refuse to amend.                 ...

Manifesto

...
THE MAN WHO KILLED THE WORLD


It was there, then it was gone. A swirling mass of white and topaz rotating in an inky expanse    gone. Vanished, right before my eyes. 
My home
my family
my co...

King Henry VIII translation by Michael R Burch

...Love ever green
attributed to King Henry VIII
translation by Michael R. Burch

If Henry VIII wrote the poem, he didn’t quite live up to it! – MRB

Green groweth the holly,
so doth the ivy.
Th...

Slipped Away

...Sandra Hall was a college student, like experience gained from learning,
Living in the house of her parents; with love like red, fall leaves returning.

Sandra was in her final year of sch...

Our Ultimate Identity Crisis

....                                                 People,
                                                  places,
                                                  events.
                      ...

It's war they cherish

...So many conflicts, many nations want.
To kill, abundant arms, countries just flaunt.
Talking about wars, a thing they cherish,
it matters less, whether many perish.

On round tables, their talks...

A future of hopeless despair

...You met me vibrant in my own world,
that was when you proposed your sick love,
Like a red-hot magma on seawater;
you blew open my brain and I could no longer think.
Now I ...

MOTHER NATURE'S LAMENT

...My dear children please ponder this, 
For something has gone far amiss. 
I bore you and I nurtured you 
And this I was so proud to do. 
And then all through your infant days 
I taught you what w...

colonialists

...Colonialists 

They came to see conquered 
plundered other nations' heritage
voices of dissent hung in the breeze 
The elite thought of themselves
as educated
Wrote learned books about stolen ...

Gold-Veined Marble

...On the heights, in marble stands
a temple wrought by hopeful hands
to please the one, eternal king;
to sacrifice and praise and sing.

Then the night ... dark witching hour.
Marble cracks from ...

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