Tag: poetry
group name: poetinaction
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October 23, 2007 04:47 PM EDT --
BOWL
an empty hollow
that can be filled
giving life
Or if bereft
is filled
with death
Deep or shallow
glass or wooden
many forms
many shapes
they matter . . . more
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March 16, 2008 04:11 PM EST --
The day stands beneath november drizzle
While the thick clouded sun shines high
So to better know
What ballot or beauty is today in time's reckoning
A passing rumble forward . . . more
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September 17, 2008 12:23 AM EDT --
As Time Flies
She sits at the window
waiting for time to stop
but it never does
She simply carries on
and on an on
She has outlived all those . . . more
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September 17, 2008 11:32 PM EDT --
Out Of Balance
©9.17.08 Robert Burnham
Silent Comprehension
Realizing; . . . more
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October 13, 2008 05:04 PM EDT --
I saw the wind in your eyes
And you saw me see it
So you looked away.
Now I wonder where you've drifted to,
Like a yellow leaf with brown edges
Ever falling.
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June 14, 2008 07:58 PM EDT --
I have written
give 'em enough trope
aimed my ink
with a sniper scope
damn careful
not to interlope
nor forget
the angel's share
having noted
I once lived in exile
made current . . . more
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October 09, 2008 05:19 PM EDT --
The Vampiress' Bride
©Robert C Burnham
Standing, cloaked in darkness
I wait to hear the bell
My bride lies sleeping
Inside a humid hell
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October 09, 2008 07:38 PM EDT --
I once knew a poetry girl
At night she'd come and sing to me
Her words were like the finest pearls
The verses she'd whisper softly
Our poetry would intertwine
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September 21, 2007 01:20 AM EDT --
A grain of sand changed hands and the world shuddered to a stop
I ceased to size my portion or care what coming would fill once arrived
My space to space and section was my own shape in . . . more
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June 11, 2008 06:29 PM EDT --
I ain't bright
nor particularly peculiar
sans Saturday night
I drink alone
but for communion
and Monday backwash
I don't echo
recon redemption
preach or petition
I half-ass . . . more
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October 09, 2008 05:30 PM EDT --
CREATURE
©Robert C Burnham
My lonely corpse
Lies ‘neath the sand
Within this barren desert
I made my final stand
No one witnessed
My sweet . . . more
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October 23, 2007 05:08 PM EDT --
Concrete poem and BOWL single word challenge
...........................BOWL.............................
a............................................................d . . . more
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August 18, 2008 02:56 AM EDT --
Sky
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September 29, 2008 12:06 PM EDT --
They lived as married
For so many years.
Now she lives in a bucket
filled with her own tears.
She gave him everything
That she had to give
Then she took his life
so that she could live. . . . more
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November 27, 2007 11:41 PM EST --
Weltschmerz of the Wolf
Ululate, long and hollow,
Echoing in the wind
Like a pebble
In a chasm of darkness.
Memories of open runs
Across forests and . . . more
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October 09, 2008 05:39 PM EDT --
HAUNTED HOME
©Robert C Burnham
It stands neglected, empty without a single friend
Their bones all buried beneath, forgotten unlamented . . . more
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October 09, 2008 05:46 PM EDT --
Werewolf
©Robert C Burnham
A werewolf howling in the dark
Tearing at my soul
Asking me which dog I'll feed
And which will I let go
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August 04, 2008 04:25 AM EDT --
CHINA
Your history stands so regal and tall
But your antics towards humans, not human at all
You're lost in a world, all your own
And now the Olympics . . . more
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October 15, 2007 08:01 PM EDT --
I'm tired of searching for the perfect words,
tired of the reason,
tired of the rhyme;
How can a broken heart
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April 02, 2008 12:46 AM EST --
There is no beauty can lift a lie
The Grey Goose and tonic of my early morning headache
I'm out on the street like a man with nothing
My suit echoes a boring necktie
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