Short Deon Poems

Crowded rooms
filled up doorways,
everybody attempting to rescue
their own personal space - 
yet somehow
each overlaps
floods the neighbouring aura
and ignites a spark
of life force
that will grow, enrich
and educate
the mind
inside
the body...
 
Copyright Deon J.H. Burger 2014...

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The sound of a heart aching
is nothing to compare 
to the crash of one breaking
over a love so rare...
 
To play this wildly exciting game
you need strength and will
because true love you can never tame
and the heart must never stand still...
 
The challenge of a lover 
yet to understand
tears your soul from its cover
and makes you see dry land...
 
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Where to now?
What can be done
to change
a life
so dependent
on hurt
rejection
and disillusionment -  
to make it yearn
and laugh,
sharing all - 
gaining soul?
 
Which path to follow?
What road do I take
to fulfill
all I ever wanted - 
to love whom, I choose
and be just me?
 
Tell me
for I need to know - 
a whispered answer
is all I need...
 
Copyright Deon J.H. Burger 2014...

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Her eyes of black stare
through me,
Making me feel so angry,
Like i want to stab something,
to feel the pierce of the blade
sink through skin,
While blood flows deon my hand,
To feel that joy of killing,
taking another's life,
what is coming over me,
i don't know, but i can feel,
past the numbness she lies there inside,
waiting for me to do her work,
but how long will i be able to sustain myself....

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Placid surface
looking glass
still water
 
Silence but for the cries of ducks
silverfish
minuscule reflections
of an almighty orb
casting its omnipresent being
onto rippling water
 
Undulations
varying patterns
splintering the smoothness
heartbeats of water
 
Boatman
ferryman - 
a carrier of souls
across Styx
deep water
 
A pathway to netherworlds
rough water
 
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Time is a funny thing
that plays jokes on us - 
teasing and tormenting
laughing in our faces
while we struggle to exist
and feel the world around us - 
catching up to us
only to leave us behind
as it races towards the future
still heavy-laden with the past!
Somehow the present is lost
becoming a non-entity
of useless living
as plans and memories
take priority over 
heres and nows!

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Who are you?
I am an entity born to love and cherish,
to nurture the need inside - 
and to capture the essence of emotion.
 
Who am I?
You are the one sent to me,
to share in my heart's desires with yours - 
and to love me in return.
 
Where do we go?
Together we travel the path ahead,
the one that leads into the sun - 
a dazzling brilliance that only we can share.
 
What do we do now?
Love...
 
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Fluffy white thing that just hangs there - 
a cotton ball of droplets
hovering below the blue plaster
that restrains the stars
from falling down...
 
A world beyond my reach -
fairy castles
in magical lands
where my every wish comes true,
and all that I love perseveres...
 
I long to travel there - 
amongst those dream worlds
to experience the liberation
so I look to you
and say,
take me there...
 
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Barefoot
I walk
across isolated wastelands
 
Silence
engulfs me
and I am alone
 
Strangely
it does not frighten me
to be that solitary figure
stumbling on a path less traveled
 
Other missionaries
join my crusade
chanting hymns of unity
 
Our crossroads
each a different route
hidden agendas guiding us all
 
Barefoot I limp 
over thorn and stone
 
Silence once again surrounds me
and I am no longer alone...
 
Copyright Deon J.H. Burger 2014...

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Ever watchful
always alert,
so goes the heart
from day to day
as it sets out 
on its journey that lies
ahead - 
to gamble
to risk
and accept fate;
do I have the strength to try
or must I hide?
 
The mind plays a strange game
of riddles and puzzles
that confuse
to extents of complexity
far beyond the shores
of our comprehension - 
can I cope with such a struggle,
a companionway of delusion,
of unextended love?
 
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Sensuous caresses
down a wet back,
steam rises and falls
as breathing catches an ear - 
a sigh of desire
that pulsates,
reverberates,
convulses through a body
catapulting a soul to new Heavenly heights
and takes the body to depths
never before experienced...
 
Impassioned kisses
leave a moist trail,
rhythms erupt and pound
into a flavour of ecstasy - 
slower movements take over
hands touch
bringing the soul back
and the dance continues...
 
Copyright Deon J.H. Burger 2014...

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