Walter Burns

"I see you In the sting Of swift emersion As if something, stunning stroked the darkness A light glows my eyes blink back levied tears You are not real. You seem as if divine. I’d rush to ..."

"I don't seek depravity I defy gravity Turn me on my head See if I can live Sunshine for the Rooted ones Punk me out in style Tell me when I'm done Give me a little grin  And I will take a smile Giv..."

"From on high above she came Born a silver streak of flame She tore a trail through my soul Burns of passion I can't control Her beauty described in mere words A sweeter song than morning birds Who ev..."

"The moon that made the sky its home one sad and lonely eve bemoaned and softly cried aloud "why did the lovers leave?" they turned the forests back for miles and drained all of the lakes the mean ol..."

"There will be such atrocities in every age of man, for deprivation and its force fight ‘gainst Almighty plan. Horrors of the day we clash until an ease is found. This our feet shall ever trod on Decei..."

"The killer stalks the darkened night My love is somewhere out of sight It’s not the time for me to show For all the hurt would only grow Unless the killer proves its trade We would run from all weave ..."

"STRESS No naked toddler ‘round the house Streaking by with chasing spouse No pressing matter of the state T-Ball practice, how we’re late For that matter tennis camp Swimming class, saving stamps Ac..."

"I got my chorus from your walk You know just how the angels talk That's just how I fell for you I saw the step was in you too I was at the cliff when you leapt Staring straight and softly wept Could ..."

"Not one can be omniscient Not one except our Lord To assume I'd ever be, Is folly I won’t afford I want to write in Heaven For I’ll never know it all I want to scribe the beauty Of Man redeemed from ..."

"Is not necessarily by Thoreau Or for that matter Keats or Shelley Or Edgar Allan Poe It might not be amongst the Dusty books there on the shelf The greatest poem you ever read May just be written by y..."

"I kicked a rock today And cut my giant toe I stopped to watch the flowers But they didn’t even grow I saw a friend I used to like But she said she didn’t know Anyone quite like me: “A circus side frea..."

"Say, please do you get it I am hungry right now You gave more to the chickens The pigs and the cow Gimme some feed back Quit saying nice stuff Just strap on the bag Being hungry is rough You gave me..."

"Should I infuse into your dying deep roots A change in your feelings for me Maybe the ink gumming up in its waste Maybe a life, overflowing distaste But there is something I cannot fathom Something I..."

"Yes I live in Texas, the Lone Star State of the South Where everything is biggins including my ole sorry mouth Stetson cowboy styling and ten gallon silly hats Spittoons in the dime stores in case som..."

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"I found myself a hole in the wall Only I'd reach it, I’m six feet tall I imagine if I put my fingers right in The wisdom would surely enlighten... It could be the dragon with terrible maw I looked in ..."

"Incoherent, disconnected A piece of me has fallen through Falling, drifting often weightless Until the time when I see you If I expand just one more time From the void that is my heart Heaving streak..."

"The pain I must endure You said our love would die I swore to you I’d be The last to say goodbye The rose will wither ‘way Inside the final book You tire to write of me I fear to take a look The pai..."

"Can allusion cause confusion? Alliterative verse Allegory tells a story All we do is make it worse Broadside ballad I’m baroque I can’t sell this here blank rhyme The Bard and Browning. Bronte too Th..."

"A story, here, of Poet Old Who hung a heavy heart And though the tale was then untold We’ll find a place to start Upon a house, upon a street Without a picket fence There lay a boy so incomplete That..."

"The world is turned upon its end My broken dreams on whirling wind And left without a loving friend All for something called “pretend” Prismatic waves of wakeful bliss Each ray so new I almost miss T..."

"On this day to God above Of whom we know and cherish We send our thoughts of hope and love In faith we shall not perish If we live a life so long And do not waste one minute Lift our hearts in word a..."

"Under a bed, 'neath a file, or simply written on a page The words of the poet’s soul locked securely in a cage A constructing worker, doctor, or a man of hourly wage Imagine behind living eyes the..."

"Here, you’ve placed upon me The colors of the sea So backwards, I regress On the floor there is a dress The sun shed the sea Like a gown over me I lay, my ears are roaring The sun peaks through, adori..."

"A horizon handshake in a warm bundle of birth My love for you was born before there was an earth And then became the earth, I watched myself depart While placed in God’s own hands, revolve a love at h..."

"They fly as if through hidden waves Beget from towers that stab the air It's said, there's is a widened path Though their power is surely there The tower snakes from charcoal earth Born of time and a..."

"There, in sunbeam, stands a savior Sword of knight; he promises As he nears I begin to doubt He draws his blade and slashes me He says forever I’ll live without I tell him he is quite mistaken Does ..."

"We've been here a short while But in the infinite scheme We've done it all, my friend We've been down the road The uphill battle Faced the fear of unknown worlds And swerved before the cattle There ..."

"I'm getting kinda weary And I'm getting kinda psyched I wish somehow I could escape For tonight it's open mic I have my poems in hand And strapped on ukulele Some cymbals and a fast drum beat I come ..."

"I remember well that moonlit night My eyes were touched with a second sight I had come to face a lonely death To find my peace in a dying breath As is the case so often thought The last place I look..."

"you might need the tune that was playin in my head...sorta Bing Crosby and Andy Kaufman When nothing but a moonbeam Is playing in your eyes It’s a feature presentation When there is a chance To hol..."

"The players: The forces of good: Wayoutwalt the hero 010101110 binary code the essence of it all The Internet Serenity Cupid Sprites and fairies The forces of evil: The computer Act I the Arr..."

"We're a sonnet in duet sweet song You and I could never part for too long The rhythm of our art         Is the beating of our heart Our poetry never dies       I can see it in your eyes The flames bu..."

"No smoking No eating No drinking No dreaming No yearning No thinking No cussing No swearing No fighting No knowledge No reading No writing No pets No kids No fun No simile No metaphor No pun No ..."

"Two little other worldlies sitting on my shoulder They sing, "Name that boy, he's only getting older? The angel whispers, "Peter? or Paul? for the child" The devil says, "But no, we gotta name him som..."

"I spy you, my ill-mannered tot Twenty months old and fast growing up Burping with everything that you’ve got You drain the root beer right from your cup I see you plan to vault your crib We meet in t..."

"...Anyway You Brat) I’m a messed up individual I don’t have a place to begin You see I don’t have siblings No nutty folk to call kin I’m an only child Of an only child Of an only child My temper ..."

"I will live and I will die In the blink of an eye Corrective glasses may help But again I'd prolly just yelp For they pinch my nose I need air So for the sum of it all I live and die for I'm small Wi..."

"I’m a cowboy, did you hear, I’m a cowboy I live near the range yet I cook with an oven I’m a cowboy lookin for some cowgirl lovin I’m a cowboy I live in good ole Fort Worth I’m a cowboy at least by th..."

"Madame Poeme I so fashioned you I drew you line for line And no matter how I followed through You were meant to be divine Madame Poeme I so fashioned you From everything I knew I stroked you with th..."

"The poet's pen is always full Even when it's dry When nothing's said No words in head There's still a weeping eye ..."

"I hope you don't come to know  Until you've read me in a song The passion in the poetry I couldn't think they'd get it wrong Spilling me on the sacred page With your lyrical designs Ignoring meter a..."

"I dedicate to my friends of the far off age When all war will cease and only passion will rage A timeless capsule carrying the antiquated The ever scurried capture of all things fated The stars now ..."

"I’d hold you in my arms, love But then one day you’d fall For everything must do so It’s planned in nature’s call It’s the gravity of nature My heart weighs down in tow Watching a love that soars so ..."

"Coffee with creamers from all over the world Hair done in boofs and the perms are home curled Clackety saucers with pinkies straight up Caffeinated ladies shout, “Hey, another cup!” I lurk in the sh..."

"How shall I say This to You Oh Lord, Oh God Lord of my heart You have given A gentle hand And the receiving  To impart Lord Almighty To understand The language That you speak Trembles the Very bea..."

"the magic of a song from beginning to its end you can form a lover from once was just a friend I've been in love forever waiting in the wings while other poets wanting of songs they can sing this ti..."

"Today’s opposite day Don’t say what you mean Eat all the fat And spit out the lean Today’s opposite day Don’t hurt your brain It’s a little confusing So let me explain Today’s opposite day I think o..."

"Sweetness… I hope you feel the same Because Sweetness… I hope to win your name At the dance when we first kissed That’s the time I reminisce It was pure poetry… It was sheer divine Like the times ..."

"Splendefirous, wunnerful poem you got! It twas really awesome and required some thought! I think I understood it, so I’ll say "WOW Yuh! Anything else is more than I’ll allow yuh Your mind is deep as ..."

"Seeing how Whatever I see Becomes a Tootsie Roll to me I must step back from the crowd And reassess my life My wife declares my obsession I step back from her and cry Tootsie Roll how I love Your cho..."

"Scandal in the papers Missing ballot boxes All the votes were in But where the heck were they The whole world was watching Even in Australia Down to just one state Holding two men in sway Rainy nig..."

"You left me no cigarettes When you locked me in the house You don’t like my addictions So you took away the mouse Oh my goodness! What’s gone now! Alas, the sugar candy There’s a lock on liquor box W..."

"Looking back some twenty years I think fondly, my first love She hung the sky for me We were young and in control We thought we’d always be Though seasons brings anew I remember holding hands And f..."

"Watch out for the Barbed-Wire Timmy!!! Snow comes round these parts Each four-year falls an inch I never made use of truck To pull my car with wench We could host Olympics Four years we’d light th..."

"A single light endures the room Smoking fingers impending doom Weaved from webs upon the gloom The vilest beast has been exhumed His teeth are missing but a few His hair is long and unkempt too And ..."

"The Lamb will be the Shepherd And the last will be the first The wanton finds true relief In a life now freed from thirst So, what about a poet? Will his pen be laid to rest A gift of love from our G..."

"She forms here close in front of me We fall forth into fantasy Here there is no living sun So, true, our day is never done We can love each other since Here there is no consequence No action met with ..."

"Blessed be the wee hours For they shall inherit these: The poet and the love he has To share all that he sees Blessed be the wee hours For they shall grow in worth When every poets’ solitude Is share..."

"There are no words In space, Or that’s where they are kept? Because words We can’t erase Like days We only wept There is no love In heart, Or that's where it’s all found? Because words May tear ap..."