• All Day Everyday
• Alone
• Alone in a Crowd
• Animal Wisdom
• Cape Town At Night
• Cliche
• Climbing To Success
• Confession
• Creating Walls
• Change
• Darkest Nights
• Death
• Depression
• Dreamstealer
• Forgotten
• Halloween
• Heart Stealer
• Inseparable
• Its Strange
• The Jay
• Kitty Cat
• Light Seekers
• Little Dot
• My Garden
• Oktoberfest '99
• Pity
• She is the city
• Simple
• Slipping Through The Cracks
• Snow
• The Spring Of Life
• Suffer Little Children
• To Brian
• Wailing Sadness
• The Wanderer
• Warnings
• Why?
• Wisps Of Death
• World Around Us
  
  
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All day everyday
We count our foes
Without a whisper
Without control

All day everyday
We wait for your call
Never to sure
Which way to turn

All day everyday
Asking patiently for
Your wish to be granted
Or to deny our pleas

All day everyday
We try and try
To find the solution
To find the light

Perhaps we try to hard
Perhaps we are wrong
Perhaps this is hell
Perhaps it's a song
We will never know
Till its too late
Perhaps that's life
And that's our fate

Taryn-Vee Burnett 1/10/1999

Alone

The walls close in on me
The day stretches to infinity
The people run past me
I can't seem to move

The sirens wail around me
The buildings burn beside me
The watchers don't care
When I'm shunted to the ground

The hatches close around me
The sinking has begun
The sun is shut out
And I'm cut off from the rest

A leper in a colony
Of happy healthy minds
Keeping track of who and what
No matter what they find

15/5/99 Taryn-Vee Burnett

Alone in a Crowd

Cold and ancient
The blue gray sky
Looks down upon us
And wonders why
To shelter, to share
The people scamper by
Little worker ants
In a hive of metal
Concrete and stone

Howling past us
We bow our heads
In shame
Nowhere do we try
To see the pain

You look
I glance away
I try not to care
And change my path

So quiet so cold
We never look another
In the eye
We worry that we
Are perceived as strange
So we lie

Never talking
To those we know not
We stick to ourselves
And never venture forth
A town so large
Yet I feel so alone.

Taryn-Vee Burnett 05/10/98

Animal Wisdom

A smiling Cheshire cat
A laughing dog
They know the truth
They know the reason
The answer is 42
The question unknown
What do we strive for?
Where do we look?
Endlessly seeking
What we cannot find
Striving forever
For what we wont get
The animals know
With their simplistic minds
They laugh, giggle
And play our game
We are slaves to them
We do not know
The answer to the
Supersonic
Question of life

12/5/97 Taryn-Vee Burnett

Cape Town at Night

The stars shine so brightly
Against the backdrop of night
A pinprick of light
Faintly flickering life
Up we go to an endless void
A light to guide
To confuse of where
we are to go
Upwards and onwards
The further we go
Into the void
Drawn by the light
Into infinity

12/5/97 Taryn-Vee Burnett

Cliche

Moving Twirling
Dancing Bouncing
Reaching for the sky
In an enhanced state
Spasming arms raised
Lost in a crowd
A brand new face
Strolling, casually
Across the floor
Turning around
Fear no more
The Harshest
The Shakers
Out to tease
Beginning to please
Smoking walls
They fall away
Tired and content
We drift apart
No reprise
from uniformity
Be it PVC
Or lace and leather

Worlds apart
From the average day
Fear we are aware
Of the cliche
We pose

29/10/99 Taryn-Vee Burnett

Climbing to Success

Arms open wide
Ready to receive
On a road
To somewhere
With nothing
In mind
Searching, seeking
Opening doors
Tramping on the
Innocent and weak
Treading the
Forgotten path
Ignoring your
Blood, your heart
Hurting, killing
Mindless stampedes
To get to the top
And falling down
The ladder
Taking whom you can
Hurting who you will.

It doesn't matter anymore
Minds are screwed
For an inch up that
Ladder
Huh ... you think
You've won
Yet there will always
Be another
To take your place.

We live today
In a world
Of desire
And material gain
When will we learn
To give is to get
To aide is to succeed
To climb is to fall

12/5/97 Taryn-Vee Burnett

Confession

I confess to admiring beauty
Of partaking in it's grace
And passion.

I confess to the sins of man
Of loving and hating
And revenge.

I confess to reckless behavior
Of rushing ahead
And progressing.

I confess to the sins that condemn me
But am I wrong to say
I am living MY life
MY way!

3/6/97 Taryn-Vee Burnett

Creating Walls

Slipping out the door
With jacket in hand
I wonder what I have done
I wonder where I stand

Memories of laughter
That filled my heart with joy
Memories of loving
Are what you destroy

I offer no solace
To the ones left behind
And to memories of parties a
And of loving blind

My heart is ravaged
By the passages of time
Daggers of the uncaring
Left at the scene of crime

What can I do but erect walls
To keep the hurt outside
I want to open up the gate
But I am scared
I wont like the ride.

Taryn-Vee Burnett 12/7/1999

Change

The year is now
The time has passed
People move on
Changing, morphing
With their circumstances
Waiting to achieve
Striving for that
Moment
Of recognition
Smiling, frowning
Laughing, crying
Emotional about
Petty ideals
Screaming for
Their beliefs.
Beliefs change
And motivation fades
Money and age
Corrupt the youth
Lest you remain
In this year
This place

25/6/97 Taryn-Vee Burnett

Darkest Nights

The dark and needy come out to play
When the light fades away
Cloistered from the daylight hours
We run and play in what is ours
The darkest depth of the night
Is when we feel the pull of our plight
The music does so dominate our days
And the particular madness of our ways
Keeping away from the light
We forever worship the dark night

Taryn-Vee Burnett 7/3/2000

Death

Trying to find
The days gone by
Searching for something
That will never be found

Happiness is fleeting
Quick to be run away
A moment in time
Then the pain returns again

Silently we seek
Those elusive moments
Knowing they are short
Dwelling in the past

Seeking eternity
Seeking youth
Our magic potions
Are no use
We age we grow
We share our pain
We look we find
We die again

Taryn-Vee Burnett 21/7/99

Depression

A weight pushing down on you
Smothering all you see
Blanketing all you feel
Mechanically you move
Out of habit perhaps
Slowly, sluggishly
Without passion,
Without motivation
A robot without a program
Aimlessly performing
Your day to day tasks
Touch has no feeling
Taste has no flavour
Smell has no aroma
Sight has no colour
Sound has no music.
The world has become
A 20's film
Black and white
Soundless and untouchable
You are a mere
Audience
No longer a participant
In a life of wonder
You question
When will this end?
When will you rejoin
The cast of characters
You were once a part of?
Reaching out
You discover that
There is nothing left
For your seeking hands
It has all become
Grey and dull
Even your friends turn
Their eyes away
They don't want to be tainted
By your world of grey.

Taryn-Vee Burnett 14/7/99

Dreamstealer

Silently staring
From the edge of my bed
Man of mystery
Faceless and eerie
I wake, you're there
I cannot see you
Cannot make out your features
You turn to leave
I am frozen in time
Cannot move
Pulse racing
I get up to see
Who, what and where
You are
But you have gone
Left me to my own devises
Violated by your visit
I cannot rest
Until I find you
My dreamstealer

Taryn-Vee Burnett 2/3/00
 

Forgotten

In the distance I hear a roar
In the distance I hear my name
In the distance people laugh
In the distance the smile again

So far from me
They walk ahead
Leaving me now
With sorrow instead

I call out
They do not hear
I tremble I shake
I'm all alone I fear

Running towards them
I finally get near
An outsider, an intruder
They don't want me that's clear

I realise all the same
That there's nothing to do
I'm forgotten that's all
I'm lonely and blue

Taryn-Vee Burnett 13/5/99

Halloween

The line is fine
The dead are near
Ol' Hallows Eve
We've nothing to fear
Darkness and light
The boundry is smeared
All that we are
Is all we feared

Leading the way
To the dark months ahead
We tremble in fear
Or love it instead

29/10/99 Taryn-Vee Burnett

Heart Stealer

Slipping through the entrance
You skulk out the door
Uncaring and heedless
Of the bodies on the floor

You rape, ravage and pillage
The village maidens so pure
Striking out and hurting
Others who were sure

Softly whispering love talk
You lure your next prey
Into a web of decadence
Gone tomorrow but alluring today

Words are precious
Real or not
You lure and you trap
But then you forgot

That I was once a maiden
So pure and alive
You shattered my dreams
And then took my drive

I look back and remember
The laughter instead
But then it washes over me
A feeling of pure dread

I look at myself
And hate what I see
I used to blame you
But now I blame me

Taryn-Vee Burnett 13/5/99

Inseparable

You take your word
And throw it away
You take the night
And say it is day

You hold my hand
While kissing another
You hold me closer
And call me brother

Always fearing
Never seeking
Worlds apart
Yet inseparable

Taryn-Vee Burnett 21/7/99

Its Strange

Its strange how insignificant the world seems
How we enter its reality, its zone
We slip through life and never notice
The cosmic sand we are

Its strange how life continues to flash on by
Another day is just lurking in the shadow behind
Confronting us with the inhumanity
And unfamiliarity it seems to possess

Its strange how we continue to seek our destiny
New ways to further our insignificant cause
A motto a credo it all cries the same song
If loss and gain and untried paths

Its strange the way life has evolved
Our patterns have changed, our paths grown apart
Our emotions segregated and imprisoned
In our need to be unique and powerful

Its strange
That no matter how hard we try
We always end up
Dead

Taryn-Vee Burnett 25/9/99

The Jay

Its the giant of greydom
Arising from the ashes of civilisation
A plant made of carpet
Among glaciers of ice
Next to a R550 boot!

26/6/97 Taryn-Vee Burnett

Kitty Cat

Slinking sliding through the door
The kitty cat purrs no more
Hiding from the fury fire
The angry person does not tire

Skulking behind the chair
The kitty does not go anywhere
Streaking off towards the door
Kitty's not in harm like before

Watch your back
Do not lurk
Dangers there
With a smirk
Lying low In the dark
It will catch you
And place its mark

Taryn-Vee Burnett 16/6/99

Light Seekers

Wailing, weeping,
Bustling people.
Smiling faces
Crying eyes.

Running forth
Away from pain,
Towards happiness
They profess to seek.

They run and hide
And seek the light
The darkness closes
The light diminishes.

Slaughter in the streets
Rampaging men
Looking for light
Where there is none.

3/6/97 Taryn-Vee Burnett

Little Dot

Oh little dot on the wall
Who's the fairest of us all?
You sit, you stare
At us all day
Nothing is spoken - what do you say?

Oh little dot on the wall
Who's the scariest of us all?
We throw, we shout,
We hurl abuse
Nothing is shared - whats the use?

Oh little dot on the wall
Where do you belong in this urban sprawl?
A fire, a light
In the dark
Why is it there - that little spark?

Oh little dot on the wall
What secrets you do not share.
Perhaps one day you will reveal all
But for now perhaps
Not knowing is better than knowing all

6/10/99 Taryn-Vee Burnett

My Garden

The world around
Is glowing with life
So bright
And vibrant
Sparkling and new
The dew drops on the grass
The birds chirruping in the trees
The pups grazing the tender greens
All in a row, red brown and black
Statues of princes
From long time
With a wizeness of age
A lazy stroll
Across my garden
The make Gone.
The blossoms struggling
In the breeze
With ears of orange
And a snout of green
Blaming the others
For not shielding him.
The tree stands guard
Wizened with age
Arms forever reaching
For a touch never made
The clouds in the sky - radiantly grey
Blinding to see in the light of day
The sky azure blue
Deep royal sky blue
Dark with clarity
Watchful and smiling
At her wondrous view.

The garden is overwhelming
With a life, a story, a culture.
It is a great interlude
It is a wonder they let me in.

27/7/97 Taryn-Vee Burnett

Oktoberfest '99 We sit here
And drink mas
The music is good
The beer even better
We meet different cultures
And have good times
Today tomorrow
We see them again
After Oktoberfest
No more drinking
Just friends
Too many steins
Too little time
We make more friends
We drink, we dance, we sing
But when its over
To work we go
Head is heavy
Tummy upset
It takes too long
And then we drink more
All is right
All is fun
Tonight we drink
Tonight we dance
Tomorrow is tomorrow
Today is Wiesn

Taryn-Vee Burnett 1/10/99

Pity

Blue, gray, green
Brown as mud
The days stretch on
Without a thud

Clean and dirty
You never now
People are sneaky
Wherever you go

You smile at a stranger
In amongst the crowd
You laugh and giggle
Or live in a shroud

Climbing falling
You place a bet
Tightrope walking
It rains, you’re wet

Suffer ignorance
Suffer pain
You’re a bitch
I’ll say it again

Taryn-Vee Burnett 05/10/98

She is the City

The stars pale beside
The beauty of the city
At night, she is
A queen bedecked in a
Million diamonds, rubies and emeralds
Humming with warmth
And welcome
The odd murmur
Hungry for attention
Hungry for love
The city is a warm haven
For those that love it
And a cold rock
For these who abuse her

Sound like anyone you know?

4/7/97 Taryn-Vee Burnett

Simple

Simply staring
At the wall
Seeing nothing
Nothing at all

Blindly searching
Never to find
The love we lost
Or left behind

Moving forward
Away from the past
Hoping wishing
That it would last

Trying to see
Trying to share
Trying to love
Trying to care

Taryn-Vee Burnett 29/6/99

Slipping through the cracks

Slipping through the cracks
Into the bowels of dispair
Seeking the knowledge
Which evades me everywhere

Handing all I meet
My heart upon a platter
They take one look at it
And to the winds they scatter

Searching all my soul
Hoping I can find
My heart which they broke
And carelessly left behind

Slipping through the cracks
Into the bowels of dispair
You are the only thing
That can lift me out of there.

Taryn-Vee Burnett 13/07/1999

Snow

Silently to the ground
The whiteness falls
Softening the sound of the city
Covering all with its wedding cake frosting.

So serene and calming
Like the beautiful call of morning
Hiding the gray
Softening the corners

White ghostly trails
Through the night
The path is indistinct
The way is covered

The city is reborn
Changed overnight
The grayness erased
Its all made white
The city of hope
Streets paved with gold
The snow capped buildings
Pinnacles in the night
Beauty no words can explain
Why where when
The beauty came

Taryn-Vee Burnett 8/2/99

The Spring of Life

The spring of life is fresh and sweet
Far to short,
And then we are beat.
By life's tolls
Life's sweat
And blood
Turning fresh snow
Into gray sludge!
The purest of pure
The sweetest of sweet
Cannot help being
Destroyed
By the malignancy of life

18/05/97 Taryn-Vee Burnett

Suffer Little Children

Suffer little children
Come out and play with me
The dark cloak of destruction
Comes with a heart rending fee

Suffer little children
The darkness welcomes you
Beckoning, calling, pleading
Wanting all that's new

Suffer little children
He laughs, he smiles
Wanting all that's innocent
Wanting your inner child

Taryn-Vee Burnett 07/06/1999

To Brian

I look in your eyes
And see eternity
I hold your hands
And feel security

I kiss your lips
And feel longevity
I breathe your breath
And love flows through me

Taryn-Vee Burnett 8/2/99

Wailing Sadness

Looking out
Into the darkness of night
The inky sky
Meets the inky sea.
The cries of the waves
Echo the sadness
Of lives lost
Of sadness buried
Within her inky depths
Over the bay
The lights flicker
Beckoning, calling
Happy and bright
But the murky depths'
Calls are stronger
The light cannot,
Will not win
Over the sorrowful seas
Wailing sadness.

3/6/97 Taryn-Vee Burnett

The Wanderer

The Wanderer's in a world
So desolate so gray
In his hand an empty bottle
While his coat flies away

On a track leading to nowhere
In a land so cold so bare
The wanderer is so lonely
Standing looking there

He looks up
There's no where else to look
His forehead creased with lines
From others who came and took

The pebbles at his feet
The wind in his hair
The lookers in cant help it
They can only stare

The wanderer is a fighter
He strives to make things right
His only problem is that bottle
Which tends to make him fight

4/7/90 Taryn-Vee Burnett

The above poem (The Wanderer) was written especially for a good friend, *NO* my best friend called Monica Ten Hove. She gave me this picture called The Wanderer for my 15th birthday. I wrote the poem as a gift back to her to say how much I appreciate her friendship - Monica, you are the best friend a girl can have and thanks for all the good times we have had and all the good times we will have in the future. *hugs and kisses*

Warnings

Danger signs everywhere
Warding off the treat
Our little pleasures in life
Become the bullet of death

MSG, Nicotine, Alcohol
And more
Killing our bodies,
Souls and minds.

So they say.
Yet in our troubled world
Pleasures are few
Gratification minimal
Death nearby.
Are these warning signs
Yet another bullet of death.

3/6/97 Taryn-Vee Burnett

Why?

Why do birds sing?
Why do trees grow?
Why do children laugh?
After love is gone

Why do we trust?
Why do we love?
Why do we live?
Once trust is broken

Why do we speak
Of trivial things?
Cause we are afraid
Of letting go

Taryn-Vee Burnett 29/6/99

Wisps of Death

Wisps Of Death
Lazy, Curling
Snake-like
To the ceiling.

Disappearing
Wisp-like
Without feeling
Heedless uncaring
Stone-like
Sends you reeling
Downwards, upwards
Beast-like
Life stealing.

18/6/97 Taryn-Vee Burnett

World Around Us

The world around
Is full of smiling faces
Holding hands
And fallen graces

The world crashes down
Uncaring and vengefull
Polluting our minds
With animosity
Slowly we surface
To new days
To new lives
Surreally happy
But unable to change
We sow, we reap
We live, we sleep.

Taryn-Vee Burnett 6/10/99

Please note that all these poems are original and written byTaryn-Vee Burnett
and cannot be used without the express permission of the author.