Short Burton Poems

A lady from Burton on Trent
Would never have sex during Lent
Her husband would bleat
So how do we eat
And how do we pay this weeks rent...

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A sportsman from Burton-on-Trent
Had such a peculiar bent
The kick that he felt
Was below the belt
That’s how his manhood got a dent...

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"PASSPORT"


Passport to Freedom Baby Shooting Star Released

(Lovejoy-Burton/ 2018 Jan)

1.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zA_lhbPVDi4...

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Science will kill us, I'm certain
And I'm willing to bet my best shirt on
one day they'll create 
Such a terrible state
That the planet will go for a burton...

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"This is My Church"



a poem 
in His eyes
for you
requires 
no words

(Lovejoy-Burton/2018)
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It seems Scott was just a bit silly
The North Pole is ever so chilly
He’s gone for a burton
And you can be certain
He died with a very small Willy...

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The Dilettante Diaries: "Love in Motion"

Sanguine Soul finds Mate
Magnetic Mate finds Soul
Poetry
Love in Motion


(Lovejoy-Burton/September 2018)
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Well Spent
© Ben Burton 9/31/2017

Those whom can rate each day "well spent"
Will elevate their heart's content
Where willful waste bears no excuse
There's time to change, but none to lose...

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"The Mirror My Sun"



Women 
shining like beacons
true POWERFUL ones
they sit high
never the moon 
they are the SUN 
in you 
they live forever 
they never die

(Lovejoy-Burton/2018 Jan)...

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"GOLDEN"



"Golden thread through the Eye of THE Needle breeze blows draws figure 8 Eternity Open Return Gate..."

(Lovejoy-Burton/2018 Jan)


1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNKRHykTibw...

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I LOVE YOU
The words jump off the page
Eight simple letters
Insecurity fears the most
Search within your soul
Embrace the love that waits
Those that lose the most
Are those who hesitate 

Written by M. BURTON...

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"Dead Letter Queues"


In the In-Between time 
the letters materialise 
words lost, suspended
in the Forever Gloaming


(Lovejoy-Burton, August 2018)

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"The Shrine Shining Symphony"


Portrait on the wall of heritage is a letter from you to me reverse your beautiful shrine shining symphony

(Lovejoy-Burton/2018 Jan)


"Letter to God" / Hole
https://youtu.be/eQS7_lOBbiI...

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© Ben Burton 8/2015

I'm happy to think that women are different
I'm elated to feel they are nothing like men
Not only in glorious, physical variance
But loving, protective and, well... mother hens

(With sincere apologies to die-hard women's libbers.... NOT)...

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a popsicle 
a 
moment 
on 
the 
beach 
we 
never 
had 
Richard Burton 
the iguana 
Puerto Vallarta 

we 
never 
had 
a 
drink 
sitting 
on the king and I 
purple faced 
dream 
island 
mime 
retreat  

a moment of calm, 
………..meditating

ok...

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Romantic Charm in 4 Lines - LOVE STORY






"When your eyes look into mine
I see a Love Story dancing in perfect time
My reflection holding yours 
Twin mirrors golden keys that open hearts’ doors"





(Lovejoy-Burton/Feb 2018)
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Spring is in the air fall now in the past
Pink and white blossom daisy’s don the grass
Reeds in the pond sound of water flow
Ignites all the senses sun stunning glow
Nesting in the trees the birds are finally home
Garden full of life wonderful place to stroll

Written by M. BURTON...

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Silk black sky it’s beauty we fear
It’s ever so close its drawing near
Cloaking our body caressing our skin
Hard to breath air so thin
Restless eye long to sleep
Slip slip away into the deep
With thoughts and dreams
You drift away awake to start a brand new day

Written by M. BURTON...

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Overwhelmed
© Ben Burton 7-3-2015

Oh, lucky they not overwhelmed
Wherein each day more grief be found
Yet, can compartmentalize
And tame the sorrow, not as 'why'
But know the answers, too, will come
As surely as He will return
To reign above this earthly realm
That none again be overwhelmed...

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You take I give
You speak I listen
You call I answer
Your bad am good
Your drunk am dry
You lunge I hide
You laugh I cry  
You hurt I bleed
You hit I plead
Your fist my face
You stay I leave
You crawl I grieve  
Your sorry am not
Your sad am fine
Your loss not mine

Written by M. BURTON...

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"Pearls"


More than all the Pearls in all the deepest Oceans
LOVE
Mother Daughter Becalmed

 

(Lovejoy-Burton/April 2018)
for Georgia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-QKEpoDYqdo
"Becalmed", Brian Eno




Isaiah 43:2 (g.n.t.)
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"What Say You?"



Say you something?
Say you nothing?




Empty Page.
Enticing.
What Say You?




Say you nothing?
Say you something?



Regards,
Amuse 




The other side of the Mirror.



(Lovejoy-Burton/August 2018)...

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Born to sing to write to share
Open arms give courage no despair
Beautiful lyrics he shares with us all

Dance with joy when his words start to flow
Yearning for peace in this dark time
Listen carefully to music and rhyme 
A man so young raised his voice
Nations wised up we sang we rejoiced  

Written by M.BURTON...

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Helen
©Ben Burton 5-11-15

A plane devoid of noises
Within a darkened cave
No words of consolation
Assuage the rants and raves

Awareness unattended
Has obfuscated will
But fluid through the fingers
Puts ink into the quill

She roars across forever
Four corners of the earth
The Alabama legend
Has made their voices heard...

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"Minefield"


My mind's a minefield. 
To traverse it and make it out in one piece is a victory I'm trying to avoid. 
Let me load my paint gun with more colour. 
Reloading artillery now.


(Lovejoy-Burton/2017 Dec)






(1)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=alobicscTjY

(2)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_DPF4bi29-Q...

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