Below are the Poetry Submissions that were received on the Playa in the year 2014. Thank you everyone for participating!
We wait to hear the divine verse emanating from you next year.
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Stick it to the man
but the man is made of sticks…
Think upon too long and it will make you sick
P.S. if you moop on the playa you are a prick
The Man Says:
“I am but wood
I cannot sing, nor dance
But receive your caring songs
You are a beautiful being
Stay strong as me
Avarice
Darkened streets hear children of fury
Overcome only by woe not worry
Understand the life you choose
For it is your life to live, not your life to lose…
Don’t Eat Me
Your many arms embrace me
Me on land
You at sea
Together we dive into the deep
Tunnels, interlocking, seeking each other
What we find makes us whole.
Opposites Attract
Fire and ice align
Opposites attract and join
Love is everything
Why
Why did you decide we were done?
Why didn’t you say anything to me that let me
-understand-
?
You left and I am…
Everlasting Love In Space
I met you and
knew instantly
you’re my
best friend
Lucky me,
you are suprer
hot too!!
Xxx
Reg
For Roger
I Am Here
Three years – I have let “me” go
Exhausted at my core
My face let no one ever know
Third BURN – I came with only me
I have come a long way this year
And now I promise I will be free
I
I woke the other day
I slumbered in a cocoon made by another
I emerged translucent
I had wings but couldn’t fly
I now drink miegzfy potions and heavenly elixers
I feel
I respond
I discover
I shine
I ….. be
Wood
On my fiery cross
While you cavort and cheer
My essence is released
While you cavort and cheer
I become the thing that trees are made of
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Haikus are not poems with rules
A natural element
A reference to the season
A feeling are all your haiku needs
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The Dragons Burn so many fields
of All the Weed the farmers yield
The scales smile, their eyes a blaze
they fall into a somber Daze
Burn Man Burn
BURN
Burn my inhibitions
Burn my past
Burn my judgment
Burn my class
If only one thing for me
Cleanse me with your fire
ASHES
Ashes the man falls
Ashes he collects
Ashes of the past are gone
Ashes left for none
If the past is ash
then the present is alive
BEDROOM MUSIC
Your hands Your Hips
Get up Back to Back
Bodies lit up Holloween Orange
Firetruck red
Her skin the flesh of an egg
Create Inspiration
The sun shines fierce but home is here
Drink plenty of water to keep the body from fear
Ice is nice & breezes are cool
Keep up all the creativity
Me, Dust
I am the terrain, I am you of the smallest and biggest feeling you have
You burner, I hug you.
A playa where you come breathing, one of happy terrain
Release
THE MAN SAYS
I am but wood without emotion
Your feeling, thoughts, encase me
As I burn your cares away
THE MAN SAYS
I am free to burn
When you burn free
Trust your thoughts and desires
As they burn with me
I Am But Wood
When I burn I float to the sky
This act allows your spirit to fly
Unleash your wrath flaming fire
Burning me reveals the dreams we desire
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All these hearts around me
Their flame engulfs my soul
Spreading through the atmosphere
Singeing me like coal
I will burn
I am but wood
If is
But what if?
What if an if wasn’t just an if?
What if it was an is?
OK.
But it is.
The ifs are, my child.
It is up to you to be them.
For if you don’t, who will?
Mind Over Matter
THE MAN SAYS…
I am but wood
I encourage, inspire, fulfill and restore the soul.
Judged harshly – criticized & stereotyped by “default Man.”
My fire grows within you.
I am but wood
I stand for possibilities
I am because you believe.
Fire rages with dreams and emerges cleansed, renewed & happy.
I am the burning man.
Tethered Man
THE MAN SAYS…
I am but wood
Tethered down
I wish that I could
Fly far from this ground
Imagine I would…
You thought to Burn was profound
ROYALTY
When did we forget
We were all both Kings & Queens
Well my reign’s not over yet
I’ve got too many songs to sing
So I just go with the groove
Flow with the truth
PLAYA MIND
My playa mind
Is bound to find
That space & time
Are never lines
They’re made to climb
No longer blind
TYRONE, MY KING
Tyrone, my King
Expansive heart
Know not his end
‘Tis where I start
The greatest gift
A work of Art
Lost & Found
“Do you know where the lost and found is?”
Hey Buddy – it’s in your mind.
Maybe it’s not lost, just misplaced.
I found something after 10 years;
It was my grandma’s photo,
the only one of her when she was young.
It was the saddest thing I ever lost.
An Ode to the Playa
The Playa giveth
And the playa taketh away
Your beauty and rugged landscape
create, inspire, and generate desire
to do more with this life
than we ever thought possible.
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My bones cannot crack
My heart cannot break
My hands cannot feel
My head cannot wonder
I stand alone through Fire and Love
I Am Burning Man.
Yo Self
Be yo self
Treat yo self
Fine leather goods
Love
and
Sleep
Woody Woodpecker
THE MAN SAYS…
I am but wood
I am butt wood
I am morning wood
The morning wood becomes…
Butt wood.
Splinters. Splinters. Burn!!!
Bang a Gong
I burn fast
but stand long
Fire dances
around my schlong
You dance below
I splash my song
Ego Burn
I am you.
Let me go.
Together, we are free.
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I am the man
You are the man
We are the man
Together we live
And alone we burn
While we live,
Let’s pursue our passion
And when we burn,
Let us burn forever
In those we loved
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I am but wood
But would I hurt you with my splinter?
Once I was a seed you did feed
Wouldn’t I prefer you didn’t chop or saw me?
We will go walking together in the wood & you will see I am but wood.
Sold
Bolt metal rivets
Likely bought by Volkswagen
Makes my tastes bitter
Embrace
Embrace the sunrise
Embrace your love
Embrace the good, the bad, the indifferent
Embrace the child within your man
Hold him close, show him he’s loved just the way he is
Embrace the child within yourself
Hold her close, show her she’s loved just the way she is
Children of the universe
One with the wind
The sea
The earth
The sun
Embrace and let your love light shine bright
Weed Free on the Playa
I didn’t know what it would mean,
to be clean on the playa,
but I’d decided I needed to be,
And not for you but for me.
Sure it was hard when
I saw the big box of green,
but I had left that life,
my mind was now clean.
Smells of weed everywhere
but not in my hair,
my life and my time are free.
Now I can find what is truly mind
and who I want to be.
So with the old life behind,
and the new now at hand,
I can make the music I was meant to make
and not just stay in my mind.
How I Became to Be
In my growth as a tree
I anchored my roots and spread my arms
Now I am a man who met good and bad
I am but wood but this is how I came to be (have / became)
Anchor you roots and spread your arms
and be as strong as me.
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Sticks and stones may break bones,
but words build societies.
Puzzle
Many pieces coming together form a man that is burnt.
Burnt & turnt.
Cast away from normality, society & general acceptance to piece yourself & shape your self into a more tangible piece of the world, of the puzzle & the burning man.
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To the light I see
To the darkness I go
To find the way
I must free my mind.
Dust to Dust
THE MAN SAYS:
I am but wood
Burned, this I’m free
Reborn from dust-bound roots
To become a burning tree
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We are but wood
Rooted and strong
Hands branched to falling ideas
Lace woven inside
We are but wood
Drinking thirsty and deep
Brittle torn-shod, creaking to burn
Renew our life from ashes reborn
Passion & Dust
Between the lines
burns a fire
that will blacken this page
and blow my words away
like ash on the wind
Someday
I wood that I could
someday learn
what it means to be good
but now I burn
Peace
MOONBEAM
Falling to pieces? Follow peace.
Love everyone completely:
Give love freely & join the peace revolution
Evolve
Once we were alone,
we pondered the unknown,
skeptical beliefs we released,
as we let our fears decease.
With eyes reborn, our clothes torn,
we found ourselves reborn.
Burning Heart
Let it go and Let your Burning heart take over and get lost in a world of wonder.
Heat & Dust
Shock
Confusion Chaos
Wonderment
I am alone
Not yet connected
Noise dust slowly
Order
Understanding
Learning belonging
Playa-identity freedom
Excitement Delight
Sundown Relief
Acceptance
I am a burner
The Temple
Beautiful
Double wonderful
Emotions raw sadness
Heavy tears shyness
Missing my loved ones
Tears unstoppable
Release
Commitment vs. Attachment
THE MAN SAYS…
I do not need nor want.
I Burn.
A reflection of your inner desires.
Reality
All that is beauty is sure to fade but the burn will last forever.