Aftermath Poems

Cova 19 may be the beginning of world Peace. All nuclear warfare will seaze so our world leaders can come together to stop this deadly disease.
What if this pandemic was just a reality check. 
Not to cause havic or make...Read More

Shadowless sundown
Beating down the pyre
Intake from the boys around
Persistence to admire

Genesis of honest thoughts
Fear melts me to the wire
Apocalypse, the greedy bought
We dance around the fire

Weeping Prophets sing the news
While sunshine slowly loses time
The days will melt into a noose
Finding...Read More

Delirious was the daze between
the ones I loved the years I’ve seen
frogs toads and a wedding queen
delirious was daze the between. 

Delicious were the fruits of youth
in pursuit of youthful truth
mysteries, a clueless sleuth 
delicious were the fruits of youth.

Destiny...Read More

POSITIVE RESULT OF COVID 19
Free Verse

We know for sure Covid 19 is a curse from God
Thousands of people  lost their precious life
But  there is also a tangible aftermath
The palpable result - people become closer to God.

' Though people...Read More

Desolation visits as
I'm gradually burning
what is left in my head.

It's like a temblor underneath.
Inevitable and perilous...
I might end up
hurting myself.

Disturbed emotions
kicking around like
big waves from the ocean
-I might be eaten alive.

Like a storm rages
destroying me
piece by piece.
All in one moment
Aftermath.

LeiStrauss2020...Read More

It was so dark for the clown at the abyss,
Searching his soul for remnant of bliss,
Deeply wounded though carried out lies.
Then came those longing looks in his eyes,

Which vapoured right where he cried.
Covering his naughty facade with pride,
In the aftermath...Read More

sometimes i howl at every palpitation of your heartbeat
sometimes i growl at every word that you do not hear due to cell phone asbestos
i cringe when you put things in places where  cannot find it
i binge when you build...Read More

 
an old soul
in turmoil
seeking serenity
simplicity
the irony
her youth
vanished
in the aftermath



posted on February 25, 2020...Read More

I feel the aftermath of sadness written upon my heart
It's the feeling you get when no one is communicating with you
And you have to read the signs and wonders to know what is happening around you, sometimes it is hard...Read More

WHERE THERE IS A WILL

It has been over three months now and still no Grans will
Through the letterbox; comes another, got to be paid bill
  
As the insurance didn’t cover for my Grans Zombie death
Then left all alone, to...Read More

Sowing a seed to make me bleed

Fear is a laden earthen farmer
Dirty is the solemn stain path
Filthy plummet plans of wrath
You break in me a spirit charmer
Sowing seeds of destructive aftermath
Winds of fear slowing ongoing
Sowing a seed you make me...Read More

In only a moment of maritime mirth
My ship's maiden voyage was missing at birth
The King's Royal Navy reduced me in rank
By flushing my ship in the place where it sank

I fell in the sea with no source of a boat
The...Read More

Dawn, Angie, Glori and Dale —
model citizens led the way
to their stage, all the rage
for seconds in time.

cool of Dawn Dolls —
icons of the seventies,
for teeny-tiny bills
a girl could own a million.

smaller in stature,
much harder to detail,
the manufacturers tire
of the...Read More

No Getting Back to Normal, a 9-11 Poem
by Michael R. Burch

for the survivors of 9-11

Intrude upon my grief; sit; take a spot
of milk to cloud the blackness that you feel;
add artificial sweeteners to conceal
the bitter aftertaste of loss. You’ll heal
if...Read More

It seems it was but a moment ago
   that we were born and grew into the world
and yet ... there is a history here
   revealing all we have heard and seen,
   learned and sadly,...Read More

Patience is a virtue
Hope is only advice
Yet the words are powerful
But power can be deceitful,
Cold, hungry and greedy.

How can one have happience?
When they continuously miss what stands in front,
When they try to please the unpleasable?
Then crumble when they fail?

Why to...Read More

As still as night, her heart aghast,
she pondered of her fellow's fairing,
for word had spread of his capture.
She dreamt of blooming meadows past,
as butterfly spies enrapture
lunch baskets and laughter sharing.
Alas, now shadows are glaring.
A fugitive, she never knew,
throughout each lovely...Read More

Through the PORTAL of historic enterprise,
Which by electronic means I NAVIGATE,
Since, like so many others, I PATRONISE
Search engines that are most accurate,
I hope to satisfy my FIXATION
With solidly TANGIBLE evidence
Of the INTRIGUE of that cruel elimination,
A deed historically immense,
The murder...Read More

Little Bo Peep has lost her sheep,
they didn't return home at the beep,
making Little Bo Peep cry and weep.
She searched everywhere her sheep
always loved to go when they creep.

Poor Little Bo Peep is unable to sleep
it's been a week still...Read More

   

It is good to know, you follow a rule
by which you live by and stay in that path;
but can you overlook the aftermath;
holding self in high esteem, it's not cool.
Why you hesitate of win, forget how doubt
other...Read More

In a twinkling gaze, when all is said and due
In repertoire of wealth, your lack diminish but rue
Stepping into the new horizon, negativity is set to crunch
Praying for the very next sparkle, the sparkles of hint and clue.

It might not...Read More

Make love to me with
your poem, your poetry.
Flow slowly do not rush it.
not so fast.
Let your words last.
Stroke me slowly
Put your back into it.

Caress my totality
Draw me into your world
let me succumb –
To your glib poetic tongue.
I hear your commands
As...Read More

absolute silence
avalanche consumed landscape
fat bears hibernate...Read More

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Rejoice, unknown of waking fall
Apart this longish bramble path
For lest we stand ‘bove lowered feel
And lone of echo’s loudest call
Of whisperings we shan’t conceal
Despised this threatened aftermath
Now formed of cost and promised wrath
If only but to heed the charge
These observations...Read More

A thunderstorm passed over, 
gun turrets flash.
gray hulls rumble and roll
above tumultuous clouds.

Evening commences to weep -
an aftermath,
a damp emotive capsizing
that barely touches upturned faces
yet it washes fright from brows.

As seafaring battles go
it was a skirmish, 
flotillas of cruisers awash...Read More