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May 2019
Randal A. Burd, Jr.
 randal.burd@gmail.com
http://randalssanctuary.wordpress.com
I am a married father of two and an educator working on the site of a residential treatment facility for juveniles in rural Missouri. I have a Master's Degree in English Curriculum & Instruction from the University of Missouri and a self-sabotaging compulsion to write poetry that rhymes. My poems have recently been featured by Halftime Magazine, The Society of Classical Poets, and Rue Scribe, among other publications.

​Armed with Imagination


Imagination armed this youthful knight— 
a plywood shield and sword of sapling wood
created echoes in the neighborhood
of backyard battles fought in fading light.

Envision how we must have been a sight
to see—a panorama understood
by only we who fought each chance we could
while lacking rhyme or reason for a fight.

The best of memories those days remain:  
each noble quest and faux chivalric deed.
Forever will they be accompanied
with yearning for just one last grand campaign.
© 2019  Randal A. Burd, Jr.
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