In Fine Fettle Poems - Poems about In Fine Fettle

...[Inspired - with much gratitude - by Jan’s poem There’s No Knocking On Heaven’s Loo Door and Caren and Tom’s comments on it] *** The toilets in heaven are cold on yo......Read the rest...

...Our thoughts are whispered in the cool night breeze. I often fall into this snare when I opine around your demise. The breeze whispers, and the spirit hangs tight for my appease. ......Read the rest...

...in quietness divine the xanthous zephyr balm a citrusy ascent to sip on Summer’s tea a lovely day is spent in quietness divine a fine fet......Read the rest...

...State of the Art (II) These are my "ars poetica" poems about the art and craft of writing poetry. What the Poet Sees by Michael R. Burch What the poet sees, he sees as a swimmer ~~~......Read the rest...

...Poems about Poems (II) Kin by Michael R. Burch for Richard Moore 1. Shrill gulls, how like my thoughts you, struggling, rise to distant bliss? the weightless blue of skies that are no......Read the rest...

...Sonnets XXXIII-XLI The Folly of Wisdom by Michael R. Burch She is wise in the way that children are wise, looking at me with such knowing, grave eyes I must bend down to her to understand. ......Read the rest...

...Poems about Poets I The Wonder Boys by Michael R. Burch for Leslie Mellichamp The stars were always there, too-bright cliches: scintillant truths the jaded world outgrew as baffled poet......Read the rest...

...Abide by Michael R. Burch after Philip Larkin's "Aubade" It is hard to understand or accept mortality— such an alien concept: not to be. Perhaps unsettling enough to spawn religion, or to s......Read the rest...

...The shock that I felt was enormous, as the tab on the cat food I pulled, a fountain of biscuits shot out of the top- the box, it was actually full ! I stood, disbelieving, bewildered, this never......Read the rest...

...Soft skin like a petal, long after butterflies settle, a shoulder against my lip, in such fine fettle, and testing my mettle, my palm naturally finding your hip. My breath in your hair, as my l......Read the rest...

...L-et the dust settle, I-nstead of making it gray; E-vade the rugged wind, Z-ealously take trouble A-way. G-ive time till things get calmer, O-bliterate the devil's way; D-istress will r......Read the rest...

...More things can happen or could have happened, From a cold metal, Sharpened in fine fettle, Making skin nettled, Damaging the mettles, To keep minds unsettled, Provoking to ask, if this is or i......Read the rest...

...Upon the spirits of love, and bliss The powers of peace, and harmony The soil I plant my feet within, And the Goddess; I do humbly serve thee… Grant me now this fine fettle wish, To cleanse me of all......Read the rest...

...I am a little archangel, please let me in your garden dwell, when there,I will spread out so well; Later,you won't let me settle but I'll keep you in fine fettle, I'm the dreaded yellow-nettle. ......Read the rest...

...Fate someday will determine when our days are concluded, And those who think otherwise are sadly deluded! Plans were made to ease my crossing with little compunction, When I shed these earthly sha......Read the rest...