Star Angst Poems

Live long and prosper*
In spite of your death desire;
Find the releasing pit,
Empty your anguish into it.


*Leonard Nimoy as Mr. Spock, Star Trek...

Read More

Dear eloquent weaver 
of woes and throes,
When the last pewter petal of weary winter
falls as piercing prose,
placing star-kissed tulips between our 
poignant poems,
rewritten with effervescent...

Read More

You don’t know how it feels
To be misunderstood and jaded
You won’t ever know till it kills you inside
To you, I speak words of wisdom
And it...

Read More

The house used to be warm when they were all home 
Not the house is gone and I'm all alone 
A stray on the street...

Read More

6 W's

So it is again.
Caught in the cycle of life.

Where everything is responsibility, expectations, and decay.
And the bastards beat you down with their rules and...

Read More

On supposedly eternal shore, 
steps purposefully wander as they did before not long ago
when existence swoop with the bow over strings-
its created harmony an unseen,...

Read More

"Fare thee well
If not forever, still forever
Pride which not a word could bow
Bow to you, and by you rejected 
Fare thee well"
Not now nor ever...

Read More

CATULLUS TRANSLATIONS 3


Catullus VII: 'How Many Kisses'
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

You ask, Lesbia, how many kisses
are enough, or more than enough, to satisfy me?

As...

Read More

When the enchanted 
jailors of life, 
siezed my soul 
and those
sepals unfurling
manipulative
manuscripts 
ceased to 
script a twinkle 
above screams, 
I became a 
slave to my...

Read More

On a fine April day, set out in the great cruise ship, Titanic,
Into the pelagic waters of Atlantic, with the weather alluringly sweet.
Plush it was...

Read More

Upon the doorstep of my paradise,
     You’ll find h e l l i s h pansies and t a i n...

Read More

the sun was burning with love for the moon, 
and the moon shone so brightly just for the sun. 
they would ever see each other...

Read More

Vacantly staring into the night sky
She saw big bellied clouds drifting away
Are they fleeing away from the luminous moon? 
Or mercilessly driven out
After being robbed...

Read More

INTERCEPTION

Shadows waning distorted fading
Teasing tempting, a psychotic hack
Scheming concealing cerebral deceiving
Sun retreating behind shades of black

Memoirs succumbing, alpha notes strumming
Hope dwindling midst each laboured breath
Dusky-eyed...

Read More

Dash it.., 
Dash it all says I.., 
Through bars - I espy.
Their 'eaven, their night sky.

Well.., dash it., 
Let 'em have it., 
And the Northern-
Love...

Read More