Robert Edgar Burns Poems

May the Bird of Paradise
Fly up your nose.
A beautiful spring flower
Song sung long ago.
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I looked at Mars with binoculars
As it was closest to the moon.
The sky was bright from moon beams
But Mars bore a bright red hue.
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I know this letter will be returned.
I am crushed but my heart still yearns.
Just why did you think you had to go?
I tell you dear I really don't know.
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Ornadine and Lester sitting in a tree.
K- I- S- S- I- N- G.
First came love and then came marriage.
That brother and sister had monkeys they cherished.
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I've never been nor shall I ever be
Afraid to see you while you're seeing me.
While you're in Rome do as the Koreans do,
Forget the Romans and eat Kimchee stew.
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An eighteen speed gearbox
Five hundred and fifty horsepower too.
One hundred and ten wheels.
Twenty eight axles spinning true.
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As an MP in the Army
I was on routine patrol.
But that is a misnomer.
Routine never seemed to show.
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I don't believe in reincarnation
That's a philosophy I can't espouse.
But I have the blood of forefathers
Running through veins in the here and now.
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Itty bitty bubbles from our root beer
Shot from the nostrils of my sweet dear.
She cleaned it up with a drinking straw
I could not believe just what I saw.
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I have used the Heimlich Maneuver
And I've done CPR,
On so very many people
I can't remember who they are.
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