Open Source Sonnets
Monday, May 31, 2010

Time's Passed

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Time's Passed by Gideon Burton It isn't all the constancy of change, nor that the past recedes with giant strides. It isn't tim...
Sunday, May 30, 2010

Temper Me in Time

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Temper Me in Time by Gideon Burton How evenly the flowing water, cold and clear across the rounded granite stones, obeys that downward ...
Saturday, May 29, 2010

Insomnia

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Insomnia by Gideon Burton The bait of sleep, the worm and hook of rest, and so I dive and deeper dreaming dive to pressured blackness, ...
Friday, May 28, 2010

Wind

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Wind by Gideon Burton With soft inflections caught upon my skin between the twilight crickets' chirping thrum, the summer tells me...
Thursday, May 27, 2010

Korma Karma

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Korma Karma by Gideon Burton The spices sleep in dryness first, hold back their sweet and heat, restrained in piquant peace. But cumin ...
Wednesday, May 26, 2010

Layers

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Layers by Gideon Burton Unlike the coats of paint that thinly stack their history (the door was brown, then red...), the layers I'v...
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Tuesday, May 25, 2010

Mucus

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Mucus by Gideon O. Burton Lugubrious and patient as he slimes his dark and viscous weight within my head. He tugs his b...
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Monday, May 24, 2010

After Poetry

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After Poetry by Gideon Burton Of what remains, initially the shells of words, so many husks of verbs and nouns, there ought to be some...
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Sunday, May 23, 2010

Forgetting Israel

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Forgetting Israel by Gideon Burton From out of Egypt with a mighty hand were they delivered, Israelites of old; with miracles and wonde...
Saturday, May 22, 2010

Morning's Reason

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Morning's Reason by Gideon Burton I am about to reason through the strands of cooling color robing warm the sky, and I will questio...
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