Sea Aubade Poems

Written: October 26, 2023
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At...

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a man and his kitten 

He had lived in a cottage deep inland for thirty years, now, was time for a change, but it was...

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When you just don't fit anywhere
Guess I really don't care
Always seem to walk this path alone.
It is what I have been shown. 
Tucked out of...

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Her birthday

We’re having lunch in the Cascais centre 
at a posh restaurant with a sea view.
The price of the lunch was outrageous
steak with salad and...

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white supremacists 

are not necessarily bad people
they are frightened of losing the privileged they thought they had
it was an illusion anyway.
They fear drowning in the...

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The final hour

He was as pale as a corpse floating in an icy Nordic sea.
Motionless in bed he opened up his eyes
don´t know if he...

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Haiku

A Stygian poem
can be  written in daylight
by the deadly lake.


In the lake of love
she was dead as an unsaid poem 
the sun too drowned.

Seven...

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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...

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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...

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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,...

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Big Dreams

My friend told me I should print a business card. 
He said that I should pass it out. 
He told me that I should...

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Let birdsong retrieve me from the land of dreams, 
And light and shadows make a sundial of streets.
Let the tides of hunger and sleep in...

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Her breath catches with each infliction. Her pain their addiction. She wades water in a sea of strife. Her day, her tomorrow, her animosity toward...

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We've met many years had passed;
Li'l things of me you'd asked.
Our minds might forget;
But our hearts will always remember.
 
In the drastic change of time;
Impedes...

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Dollies, doilies and daisies are not akin to a painting in a suitcase

Turtle trumpeters. The chopping capabilities of the large carnivorous cheese plant. Their leaves...

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