Superseded Poems

It split you apart
You bled free tears to rejoice
You discovered words in your heart
You found a new self and a devout voice

It slit you in half
It took away your weakness
Superseded it with new wings of life
To fly you to where...Read More

my need
to sleep is
superseded

by the seeds
you've sown
inside me

taking root
in my brain
stem sprout

ing leaves
and grow
ing freely

but i want
to keep you
inside me

not want
ing you 
to leave

so insert
ing ear 
buds

vine grown
from an
i pod

playing
salsa to
keep you

dancing
in my
head...Read More

Flowing into healthy sun
Beams subtle on my face
Mama’s ills are often none.

Hands peek in a good grace
Obviously I am still needed
Battle won, continue earthly race

Healthy cuticle glow completed
Hands sparkle, vibrancy attack
Fears and woes superseded

My aches and pains are pushed way...Read More

Samson reborn within
brand name garden variety
twentieth century Homo sapien
hirsute trademark characteristic
electrified, empowered, enamored
mirrored reflection validated

substantial flowing luscious tresses
superseded body, mind, and spirit triage
prioritized as most significant
constituent essence passively
potently, pronouncedly exemplified
declaration of independence

against parental United Kingdom
first impression evoked
heavy metal musician,
this then...Read More

Encapsulation Versus Elaboration...

Therefore, I opted to
reduce heavy sedation
within unsuspecting reader rabbit
summarization superseded elaboration,
less reason spurring salacious secretion
i.e. a-z expletive epithet, et cetera laced

verbalization crucifixion subsequently,
neither nameless nincompoop (me)
crossing verboten drive,
nor this ditto anonymous
poetic purveyor to burden heavy
onlookers with elegiac colluding...Read More

It's been a long week I really don't feel the need to have to speak but you know what I'm going through and I know your situation too
I just wanna get lost in your soul like we use to do...Read More

The Bloody Road to Calvary
© Ben Burton 4/11/2019

They scourged this common criminal, the man who would be king
He was a Jew and that alone was reason to demean
In bawdy reverie they whipped Him, calling Him a joke
They cloaked His nakedness...Read More

My wife is away to the mountains, visiting her folks.
She left the windows guarded
With curtains made out of her shadows.

Last night the moon peeped in through the dark embroidery,
But failed to seduce me as I was secured in the possessive...Read More

30 years ago she was 21 years olds… and therein begins her tale…
for it was then her dream began…to hike the Appalachian Trail.

As a young woman filled with hope and excitement  she eagerly began her jaunt
but she didn’t make...Read More

MY HEART SINGS MELODY
When I sing to praise, and say thank you to God
When I bow to pray, and say help from God
When I sing until, my throat hollow clots
What I feel inside, my heart sings melody

When I sing to...Read More

The world in 100 years ... Oh, perish the thought
 
 
Former President, Ronald Dump,  who was cryogenically frozen following his assassination after winning the ‘No Bull’ Peace Prize in December 2018, has been successfully defrosted.
  
Ronald Dump...Read More

Biased
She wants a child but not a man
Only his seed will do
And when the child is born she’ll say
’Sweetheart it’s me and you
We’ll be a team, you’ll be my prince
Or princess’, if it’s a she
’My child, you’ll be completely mine
I’ll...Read More

Consciousness-only is..

Of vital importance
in this our time's moment..
To realize 
with living transparency 
the only-ness
of Consciousness..
Separation dissolves
in the realizing
and is superseded now
with uncaused joy...
...Read More

The restaurant was noisy;
We shouted when we talked.
If I had been from Boise,
I’m sure I would have balked.

But all the hungry tourists
Outside Katz’s formed a line.
For deli, we’re not purists
So the other place seemed fine.

The food was mediocre;
The service merely...Read More

It seemed that I dared
To climb the stairs toward heaven
Effort over a millennium, or was it timeless? 
A spiritual goal pursued in this endless universe
No pure maidens in the reception line
Just me, newly arrived, still in motion
Without direction, decisiveness, where...Read More

There will always be tyrants;
There will always be violence.
Whether or not
There will always be heroes - 
Everyday is decided
Virtue is nothing
But a word if you hide it.
Righteousness goes unrecognized 
Even if you're standing beside it
When superseded by silence.
All of your...Read More

FRACAS MISCELLANY

(Let's Slam):

This futuristic society is all about the status quo.
The soul of humanity is therefore exposed to terrorists’ attacks and war.
Where I am from cries out to unknown God to no be the prophesy of Armageddon.
An eternal doomsday is...Read More

A MARKSMAN 

This futuristic society is all about the status quo.
The soul of humanity is therefore exposed to terrorists attacks and war.
Where I am from cries out to unknown God to no be the prophesy of Armageddon.
An eternal doomsday is...Read More

A reminder of my father; 
more antique than useful it was tucked 
inside my tool box ever ready to be used. 
Soaped and sharpened many times 
the blade was keen and hungry. 
I took it with me everywhere 
'til pure...Read More

I didn’t know what I would feel about Doug Gay, 
But I looked for a motorbike outside the church, 
To reinforce his black biker jacket and sociology, 
Which superseded church goers and that bunch. 

I made it one of the...Read More

...for Ted Kooser

It belonged to my dad. 
More antique than useful it lay 
in my tool box begging to be used.
Soaped and sharpened so many times 
before use, its blade was now dull and lifeless.
I took it with me everywhere...Read More

...for Ted Kooser


A reminder of my father; 
more antique than useful it was tucked 
inside my tool box ever ready to be used.
Soaped and sharpened many times 
the blade was keen and hungry.
I took it with me everywhere 
'til pure...Read More

...for Ted Kooser

A reminder of my father; 
more antique than useful it was tucked 
inside my tool box ever ready to be used.
Soaped and sharpened many times 
the blade was keen and hungry.
I took it with me everywhere 
'til pure...Read More

Either struggle at talking now, 
Or struggle in armament later, 
Deal with the battle inside yourselves,
Or get others to face your fiery hater. 

Talking and discussion are always best, 
Considering and exchanging views,
Concerning yourself with the other way, 
Appreciating what...Read More

Happy 5th birthday have you accepted rape into your life,
It's a patriarchal practice built from sadism and male strife,
A hedonistic ritual to keep us all under control,
The birthright of masculinity bestowed upon all men young and old,
They'll decry our institution...Read More