Aubade Poems

Up slightly past midnight, 
we finally called it a day as we 
exchanged goodnight kisses and 
amorous glances with tired eyes

Half-awake early morn', I lay supine 
on the left side of our king-sized bed
I scanned the right up-and-down for her;...Read More

A cook at sea

The sea is restless and white-crested
It moves the ship up and down and sideways
Broad legged the cook tries to keep order
With dancing pots and pans.

He dreams of roses but is surrounded by steel
He knew of better times,...Read More

Insurrection
by Michael R. Burch

She has become as the night—listening
for rumors of dawn—while the dew, glistening,
reminds me of her, and the wind, whistling,
lashes my cheeks with its soft chastening.

She has become as the lights—flickering
in the distance—till memories old and troubling
rise up...Read More

How it commenced

Some fish found it difficult to breaths
Underwater, they swam ashore and rested
Later they crawled to the garden of Eden
Where grew hands and feet

The post office is an oasis of harmony caused
By women staff who work slowly.

The fish now...Read More

I'd rather take nice deeds for granted
than not believe in Heaven
And make the others feel their shame
when lost comparing devon

That I am lost for seeing theirs
in shock detained from reverend
When all I did was witness love
for walks of life been...Read More

we rise and shine to his aubade and slumber to whispered lullabies


01.14.20


Who Flips Your Trolley Poetry Contest - sponsor - Bobby May...Read More

Running this way and that, in search of some adventure new
The roads ran their course with flatirons the ruts not few
Over hill, mountain, river, valley, flood, glen and dale
To the open sea with long, sandy beaches and cut-up shale
To found...Read More

A new day perhaps, of immeasurable tin, sound of din
A hurricane noise, a thrall of riotous cuts, although thin
The blood-curdle choke of rage from before
Now purchased like plasma from the needle store
Go hump yourself, If you want my schtick, you...Read More

The thorns have come for me
Her deadly flower walks
There's more for taking me
to deadly hallow docks

What once was gracing me
now trecherous goary blocks
When now I come to see
her hoary marry mocks

That now  I know to see
more caring fair-thee flocks
So...Read More

Somehow I want my heart to shut down
To sabotage my way
To make the other in my life
expect what I'm to pay

To make my heart obey the head
that logic says is right
To take what all will come with it
when pain exists...Read More

I wish I was young and still drinking
Where others would see my soul
And feelings were thought together
for shallowness meant to role

That all of my troubles were sexual
and life meant I'm easy that way
For others to see me as special
and happiness...Read More

Friendly faces
Face your frown
Friendly faces
raise your lown

Hopeful faces
founding draumb
Healing paces
going braum...Read More

Every Day You Play
by Pablo Neruda
loose translation by Michael R. Burch

Every day you play with Infinity’s rays.
Exquisite visitor, you arrive with the flowers and the water.
You are vastly more than this immaculate head I clasp tightly
like a cornucopia, every day,...Read More

Passionate One
by Michael R. Burch
 
for Beth
 
Love of my life,
light of my morning,
arise brightly dawning,
for you are my sun.
 
Give me of heaven
both manna and leaven,
desirous Presence,
Passionate One.
...Read More

Trust in yourself
If you trust others, they do so
Out of self-interest
Not what is best for you.
To be a follower is dangerous
When you wake up naked
And nowhere to go but follow
The stream. Give up.
Making you unhappy and discontent
A deep-seated irritation
Of a...Read More

lady bugs giggle
November's white flowers yawn
Doves coo in the mist



December 6, 2019
A Nature Themed Haiku Poetry Contest
Sponsored by Tania Kitchen...Read More

 Caper with asparagus porridge,
accompanies fake ravioli
with supreme sweet eggplant ...
All sipped with a porto wine
of passion fruit ....
Hawaii vermicelli,
rubbing mussels
bread crumbs
crowded larva sections
inside peanut crumbs
portuguese cognac within
and pineapple with avocado
al juice...Read More

The healer

Do you remember the night when?
The floodlight came on as we sat by the riverside?
You said you loved me and I quickly said ditto,
A joke you didn’t appreciate.
 Mosquitoes flew like silent angles through air
In the mimosa night and...Read More

These Hallowed Halls
by Michael R. Burch

I

A final stereo fades into silence
and now there is seldom a murmur
to trouble the slumber
of these ancient halls.

I stand by a window where others have watched
the passage of time, alone,
not untouched,
and I am as they...Read More

Life can hurt real bad, the oppression of being sad, for only pain that makes people mad. Only to be glad to be me, only to remain myself consionly, the reality if life is to live through pain, for whom...Read More

In the absence of complication,
trials and tribulations become distant memories.
Above sapphire skies delight sanguine eyes -
inspiring forthcoming musings of the mind.

Words flow like rivers kissing mouths of the sea,
where an aubade of dawn creates waves of serenity.
In the purity of...Read More

Why do i fall for love 
Love that is never true to me 
Love that is heart break to me 
Love that is poisonous to me 

I fall over and over 
I fall to the ground & can't get back...Read More

The foreign bird
I knew him well trying to blend in
Speaking the language too flawlessly
So, the embarrassment when he
On occasions, got it wrong.
It was not his mother tongue so
His speech was too slow and learned.
Made the language into disharmony
In a country...Read More

morn' has dawned
   and my
dream just fell
away
drifting
fading
gone-
   lost
    paused
      dead
in 
time
till:
     night
   comes drifting 
to embrace
me
and
cap ...
     ...Read More

The rooster's crow warns me that dawn has come
My sleepy eyes resist my need to rise
I blindly reach for her but she is gone
Then hear a sound that much to my surprise
Reveals she hasn't left but still is near
The sound...Read More