Walter Burns

"My little girl, she’s only three Last night she came and cried to me "Daddy, Daddy, outside my room A floating nose to meet my doom" "A floating nose? You’re being silly" "A floating nose, Daddy real..."

"Cast by the hands of the Maker above Kissed by the lips that gave us all love Breathed by the fire that gave us all life Filled in the belly of beautiful wife Held safe in the hands of the Cradler’s ..."

"I’m looking through the eye of the needle Down the bottom of the bottle A very fast song is spinning And my cat's feeding off the garbage I’m too busy wishing there was a drop left Too busy wishing th..."

"It's Valentine's Day, my dear Should I write a ballad here? I would reveal my love this way And for once not forget this day It deserves a chaplain's voice Florists and card shops will rejoice I lov..."

"I won’t take for granted this transplanted enchanted world From wake to walk and back again each night I dream your name All my life empty faces shameless places spoke of you said they’d ..."

"Weaving in and out of what is real Ether wakes ethereal. Conscience... Blue. Black is sin! White is in a sense innocence I’ve been called a dog before A brutish one at that Written February 16th,..."

"Tailor-made, fancy, frayed- her bluejeans curve her thighs. Took a walk to the lake I couldn’t trust my eyes. Underneath that denim Do you know what’s in em? The purtiest girl alive! Written Febr..."

"Lost, alone, afraid, aware Looking for a scare Each and every hackled hair Love is in the air Duck… duck… Goose! Tied 'round A neck A noose Love is in the air Ring around the rosy Pocket full of n..."

"The ragdoll lay calm on little girl's bed To watch its beloved pass over its head The ragdoll was sad but always knew why As body was soiled and missing an eye The new-and-improved could wet and coul..."

"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 sm..."

""Various lanes closed ahead" Take the service road instead "Food/Gas/Lodging" What life have we been dodging? The speed limit is the biggest gimick! Did you know its just suggested Why, I wond..."

"I’ll give you the whole length of the playing field if you give me the same And we will go about erecting our walls, oblivious to each other I whistling Dixie you hard at work So it really doesn’..."

"Falling, within, a vain attempt of flight On waving eyes are wings of yielding trust Each time my lips have words they could recite But slammed against the stones, in naked lust Conceit, an ill ap..."

"am going to spiral this poem because it’s a reflection of my life and with each enjambment and trochaic meter you will understand the shaky pattern the instability the walking- working- living- dying ..."

"The thief was known for his extr’ord’nary tastes- he’d pilfer my words but leave an old vase. No use for a car, computer, or wallet-- what was he thinking…that he could sell it? The thing he did d..."

"Sonnet Sized (based on Sonic®, America's Drive-In™) The systematic roll of window first As thunder turns my nerves into a glue And only one thing now will quench my thirst A greater love than Ocean ..."

"for each member of my family**** There once was a lady, Elisa Who racked charges on her new Visa Her vision askew As debts only grew Like liens on our tower a' Pisa --------------------------------..."

"stole it from you mister preach it my country, still the same, land of Inter Net Banner and Double Your Fun With A Million Things (to do land of a Never Close and Ted Turner) of you i whine:land..."

"You’re a laugh of lashes A sudden splash Of smashes Running through grass of dashes Like a kiss on the fifty yard line I’m a frown you turned down cuz your smile is so adept and your lashes are l..."

"I danced and I fiddled in the middle of spring Disencumbered the number of what summer can bring Gathered the leaves where thieves would have got them and cherished the perish of green in the ..."

"there's everything online from a down to z if it isn't online then I guess it can ..."

"i will have a Thought                   and soon as its forgotten                   i will have Another                   "this is how my day would go                   this is how that i would k..."

"Where once an oak is... Where once an oak is... now a tallow tree before this winding road a sharper curve the pungent tar that paved the patchwork years and now the yellow streaks are slowing sti..."

"I like to see you out of water and suffering from your state Breathing poison -- what I call air and wriggling at your fate I like to see you bark and bitch as your head hangs out the car I want to h..."

"Billy beat the piñata with a stick Little suzy liked to watch him spring His underdeveloped muscles cage And then inflict a candied reign Billy brought that stick into the bed And beat blind folded s..."

"A.I artifice art to choke art is art that’s— art art too fishy i cannot tell them all, “ape art” art thou art artificial insemination he-art : she-art i can tell them all, “up art!” they won’t listen ..."

"The slow progress of time Reads like the beats of rhyme In that I must rely On every passerby To read me as I’m penned With more their time to spend Than as a rule would choose For some their song to..."

"I am unimportant existence bleeds into misery's drain now gone and left with picket fences and bombed out houses- memories- how can I matter I'm a name on a page and before anyone will care I'll be d..."

"I wanna write Til its late at night I wanna tell the world How once I was hurled Into this fate that couldn’t wait every time I write it’s not black in white It could be for you It could be for..."

"If I write what I feel then why does it happen that this isn’t written On a cocktail napkin Maybe a bathroom stall I could draw on the wall Right now I’m in the bathroom And I can’t think at all No..."

"Is love a dark and tendered heart A paradoxical support That holds the plain and splintered world In lieu, in elder, timeless court If love is filled in tankard’s breadth And mixed with measured c..."

"You and Me, Kid I. You and me kid, we got a lot in common We're both carrying out our sentences and may get off a little sooner that is if we exhibit good behavior. You've got eight years a..."

"I took a breath from my beloved  and carried it away  for that is what she did for me one blesséd yesterday I took the sight from my beloved because she had so much I breathed her in my memory ..."

"I stood outside on the front porch and smoked my cancer stick The sidewalk overflowed and water spread over my wrinkling ankle bones in waves... The latest guilt commercial sprang harsh from the ra..."

"Inferior, Hurled from a broken cast Everyone was there in line But I guess that I was last Inferior, Not as good as you Even though we all were born When the world was Something new Inferior, On the..."

"posture-pedic solitude upright man is faster than the poles predict the easy win and suppers ready for the thin the fat man gets the buttered skin and Jesus loves the ones that sin so that’s the point..."

"I woke up this morning and that translates too: a groan-a snooze-a groan-a snooze-a get up and go I imagined that an angel or maybe even God waited on a word from me All this as the shifted wait pump..."

"I'm not coming back this time You can't make me see the light You may think that you are right But I've stepped into the night Cannot reach me in your bed Cannot teach me, I am dead I have foun..."

"I live on a nondescript street in a nondescript home I let a lot of peace in Breathe it slow and exhale the impurities of my nondescript life My suburban town picks up the trash once a week I mow th..."

"This is another "Do You Remember When" Update From your Family Familiar Depression station Do you remember the smell of Strawberry Shortcake a new Star Wars figure G. I. Joe “Destro” They are still..."