R W Burke Poems

As children, with birthdays just once a year
It seemed like an age before another was near
There were parties and presents, balloons and a cake
Gifts for our siblings at home we would make
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In fine fragile filaments her image is cast
No more than a shimmer 'gainst sky dark and vast
As night silence summons her innocent face
Like a moth to a flame she is drawn to this place
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We came to seek validity
Should world be granted a reprieve
And bring you serendipity
For I am Adam, she is Eve.
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Starting out with hope and joy
The future calls with wink of eye
Ecstatic view of ‘Life ahoy! ’
In which their love can all but fly
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People walking, faces set
With rain clouds black in stormy sky
Their shoulders hunched against the wet
Yet I am free to saunter by
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Orwell decreed, in the year forty eight
A collectivist society that we all would hate
Government surveillance, incessant control
Life without freedom, death our parole
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Stupid acts of selfishness
Leave precious dogs to die
These noble beasts who risk their lives
Without ever asking why
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