Short Caricatures Poems

To the horizon
Black people are now
Caricatures...

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that that is embodied
by being and seeing
therefore knowing
and becoming
as definitive
wisdom
transcends
beyond doubt
caricatures of scriptures
interpreted by mind
that’s conditioned
by narrow belief
but we cannot
transfer the secret
since it requires seeing
without the aid of mirrors 

05-June-2023...

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The shining sun’s luminous effulgence 
remains unknown but for a reflection
reminding the great star of its brilliance,
signalling need of manifestation,
that The one consciousness feels elation.
Take it or leave it, so say the scriptures,
in this reflected world, caricatures
as entities, assuming feeble form,
know not their true immense, boundless stature
until so feeling, bliss magnetism warm.

26-June-2021...

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the past recedes and what
was once a tsunami
of energy, exaltation and intent
or a depression of sadness and despair
play out into waves and troughs
of remembrance,
to ripples of recognition,
to a becalmed sea.
So too,
your resolve to remember always,
that awesome victory,
or deathly loss,
dampens down,
to the day you find that
you haven't thought of it
for years,
and now the details are
caricatures and cartoons that
you feel guilty and petty
for even mentioning....

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Papers, Billboards, Cinema Screen 
Headlines, Images, Magazines 
Pictures, Quotes, Caricatures and parts
Welder, Allen, Clooney and Marx.
Eastwood, Tracey, Pitt and Dean
Just a few of the best I’ve seen
Fonda, Newman, Guinness and Wayne, O.M.G
Citizen Cane
Vertigo, Psycho, Singing in the rain,
Curtis, Lemmon, Redford and Plummer
What did you do hay last summer?
So many greats this is just a fraction
Shush be quiet 
Lights, Camera, Action

Written by M. BURTON...

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