MONOLOGUE OF AN EXILE
...Just one dusk at the terminus,
the hourglass will shatter.
No more pain,
no more suffering,
just the silence
of a penance without sentence.
My feelings,
a procession of punishments.
My ...
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Categories:
urgencies, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
Falling Asleep
...Falling Asleep
Roger White
Languorous head caresses feathered pillow. Fatigued back and limbs repose on cushioned bed. Eyes finish the day’s tasks and rest b...
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Categories:
urgencies, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
The Funeral Urn
...“we look for that that does not come and go
it cannot be organic form, subject to decay
thoughts and beliefs are fickle, how little we know
yet come what may, our inner child continue...
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Categories:
urgencies, allusion, analogy, appreciation, character,
Form: Concrete
Sacramento River Wordscape
...Redding Poem 2
"Sacramento River WordScape"
These descendent waters swim like mad lagoon fish,
Heading decidedly south with a fiery mindless turn,
Their cool liquid urgencies reaching to all ...
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Categories:
urgencies, freedom, nature,
Form: Free verse
Woman Who Dares and Man Who Would
...Silent lake secrets of a summer’s evening
Beyond meadow’s grasses, rustled in bits of expectation
Light sparkle of reflected diamonds dance on shimmery pond
Cool clear waters delighting the heart...
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Categories:
urgencies, imagery, love, moon, nature,
Form: Romanticism
Crescent Time Breathing
...Crescent Time Breathing
There is no reach by which we as breathing creatures of crescent time,
Can ascertain the crouching intentions behind an elm tree with acorn outbursts,
Designed to scan th...
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Categories:
urgencies, time,
Form: Free verse
Need
...Need
© Ben Burton 1-3-2015
A clash occurs where pride meets need
And dreams lose to reality
When givers then must takers be
Without the will to risk rejection
In solitude to watch the fall
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Categories:
urgencies, lonely, sad,
Form: Rhyme
The Perfect Painting
...The Perfect Painting
They said he could not put his heart
on canvas, capture time in a timeless
moment, allow his passion to explode,
and yet contain it in the flicking of a brush.
What is i...
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Categories:
urgencies, art,
Form: Free verse
My Atomic Lover
...My atomic lover, chemically induces me.
Transforms me into substances and breaks,
Down, my anatomy.
He starts with my mind, as complex as it may be
Changes my compound structure, my neurons...
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Categories:
urgencies, body,
Form: Rhyme
Hands Awake
...Hands awaken! Speak out! Answer to sacred shouts,
subterranean whispering, to stars above rooftops—
thread sunlit branches with the chattering of a thousand leaves.
If fluxes and urgencies of co...
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Categories:
urgencies, angst, courage, dance, death,
Form: Rhyme
Screeching Howl To the Fair Wind
...At the traffic dodged broken barrier
My clown eclipses pinholes gander
Reeked in the phallic sundust
Pouring out in putrid urgencies
Human beams of ghastly thought
Clinging to lucrative belly rings
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Categories:
urgencies, animals, business,
Form: Free verse
The Quintessential Parent Trap
...I created you
the angelic, and the impish
with my proud and selfless
love for you.
I enthusiastically ate for two
the sweet, the sour,
the salty, ravenous cravings.
I carried you
inside me, ...
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Categories:
urgencies, funny
Form: Free verse