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Aunt Sally Poems - Poems about Aunt Sally

Sharon

...Sharon
by Michael R. Burch, circa age 15

apologies to Byron

I.

Flamingo-minted, pink, pink cheeks,
dark hair streaked with a lisp of dawnlight;
I have seen your shadow creep
through eeri...

Categories: aunt sally, beauty, body, hair, light,
Form: Rhyme

The Beginning of Christmas

...I was sitting Thanksgiving day, with my belly overlapping
Cousin Dave was watching football, while Grandpa was a napping.
The kids were outside playing, trying to be good
Uncle Pete was moaning to...

Categories: aunt sally, christian, christmas,
Form: Rhyme

Daredevil

...Daredevil
by Michael R. Burch

There are days that I believe
(and nights that I deny)
love is not mutilation.

Daredevil, dry your eyes.

There are tightropes leaps bereave:
taut wires stru...

Categories: aunt sally, day, hurt, lost love,
Form: Verse

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

Pushkin Translation

...I Loved You
by Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin
translation by Michael R. Burch

I loved you ... perhaps I love you still ...
perhaps for a while such emotions may remain.
But please don’t let my ...

Categories: aunt sally, emotions, feelings, lost love,
Form: Verse

Kin

...Kin
by Michael R. Burch

O pale, austere moon,
haughty beauty ...

what do we know of love, 
or duty?



Daredevil
by Michael R. Burch

There are days that I believe
(and nights that I...

Categories: aunt sally, absence, beauty, death, love,
Form: Verse

Aunt Sally Is 80

...Aunt Sally Is 80

Well, my family calls me Aunt Sally;
I never was a missus.
I travelled with a disabled colonel,
As a nurse, until

My sister and I went blind, 
Had measles when we were just...

Categories: aunt sally, age, birthday, courage,
Form: Personification

Kid and a Not So Funny Bee

...Tap tap play dough
ice-cream and rainbow
Grandma took us to Don Valley
To get some ribs for Aunt Sally
We went to the butcher's shop
There,we saw bees buzz buzz buzz

"Hello busy bee! How are ...

Categories: aunt sally, fun, kid,
Form: Free verse

Aunt Sally

...Sometimes you like people better as you grow older. . .

Growing up, I considered my aunt, Sally,  a gossip and a person consumed with envy.  She liked to make fun of people, as she did with me ove...

Categories: aunt sally, age, appreciation, death, hope,
Form: Haibun

Phantoms

...Phantoms

In male six, psychiatric ward at night
 there live ten patients burning bright,
 their thoughts are with their missing 
 mums, while eager for breakfast wait
 their tums

Now here, ...

Categories: aunt sally, memory, men,
Form: Verse

Mathematician

...Please excuse my dear aunt sally
cause mathematically
how geometrically in reality the measurements accurately
shadow me
actually
my aunt manufactured me
multiply
my design
then divide by zer...

Categories: aunt sally, art, self, stars,
Form: Personification

Old Uncle Jake

...Old Uncle Jake

By Elton Camp

Jake, in his heyday, was a mighty man
He could do as much work as any can

He created for himself a comfortable life
Surrounded by children and loving wife

T...

Categories: aunt sally, family, children,
Form: Rhyme

Our Hurting Planet

...How many look out a window
And dream, dream away
Without really knowing
Whats happening miles away.
 
Or even round the corner
Or even round the bend
Our HURTING PLANET
Its natures blend.
 
...

Categories: aunt sally, life, loss, naturetechnology,
Form: Rhyme

Heatwave

...Light the torch
Up the conditioner to 9
lotion on the double
We're baking HOT these times

Fan is high
body sleeping
Still to sweat
It is hard to cool off by

All the commotion
As we swim ...

Categories: aunt sally, funny, seasons,
Form: I do not know?