Burning Words

Sometimes, the things

we’ve said in an attack of anger,

brutal, bitter, black

the things we’d give anything

to take back

They eat at our conscience & heart

like a burning acid bath

By: J.N.R Dutton

The Golden Voice

Randy had a golden voice that the whole world came to know

I always loved to hear it come on the radio

When he sang a song it was about both

the heartfelt message & the show

Though his voice was robbed from him,

by a stroke a few years ago

He’s fighting tooth & nail to recover,

even though progress is slow

By:J.N.R Dutton

Wild & Free

He never learned or cared much about

the formal rigid rules of poetry

He had more of a “Dead Poets” thing going,

writing from the heart, about his life,

& dreams, letting his mind run wild & free

& occasionally, he hit on a cool rhyme scheme

By: J.N.R Dutton

The “Dead Poets” referenced in this poem is the 1989 film “Dead Poets Society” starring the late great Robin Williams as maverick teacher John Keating