Balaclava Poems - Poems about Balaclava

Smuggler's Boat

...Migrants on the move from violence
their only possession
breath-space on a smuggler’s boat
secured with back-bent harvests 
in pretzel-bent systems
weight of crates of strawberries 
hoisted on ...

A Journey To Zenith

...Written: June 25, 2023

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We evolved toward the Zenith Ringers.
While no daylight is expected, I am thrilled.
With Bana...

Latent Black Payback

...Losses not consolidated leave contributor raw
Arrears rip pages of rational compassionate law
Turblent thoughts toss turn to channel retaliation 
Embittered brain rubs static into smooth radio sta...

Erotic Games

...Players in the stadium
Patient as waiting soldiers
Seek stirring to signify
Attack artillery emboldened

Provisions are messages
Loaded with fresh opening 
Responses rapidly fired
Lonely's ea...

And Then There Were Nuns

...Black hoodie, black gloves and a black balaclava 
Allegiances born of belligerent father
A council estate with yards full of tyres
A rucksack that’s laden with tin tacks and wires 

Cars outside...

Poems About Things That Break Ii

...Poems about Things that Break II
 
These are poems about things that break and/or shatter.
 
 
 
Water and Gold
by Michael R. Burch
 
You came to me as rain breaks on the desert
when every ...

A Fall of Snow In the Fifties Part 2

...Domestic sounds from the kitchen below creep under the bedroom door 
and I scamper, teeth a’ chatter, across the bedroom floor.
Out of the bedroom and across the landing, down the stairs I clatter,...

Adam Mickiewicz Translation: the Ruins of Balaclava

...Sonnet: The Ruins of Balaclava
by Adam Mickiewicz (1798-1855)
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

Oh, barren Crimean land, these dreary shades
of castles?once your indisputable...

Blackness

...BLACKNESS
No racism, we are all made of black
Like a bacon-eating balaclava-wearing bachelor Jack,
And even if you're white or Caucasian,
Can't run from black hair like typical Asian
Cos of crea...

Fog

...
I kept on the grass
Away from the road
There was silence wherever I walked.

My school balaclava
Covered my head
And I “smoked” whenever I talked.

Assembled that morning
We'd sung about J...

Of Snow and Ice

...Fifty-two words in Inuktitut 
A full deck plus a Joker
That's me

As a bike courier 
Each day's weather
Was a new game to play
Winter storms a sport of kings
For traffic riders
Crowned insan...

N'Iron

...strife riven island corner, rough hewn by rival visitation
  vexed, looking in, looking out, on the edge of places to go
  thrang in thrall of other realms, banners furling, batons flung
  across ...

Fortitiude Is Not An Attitude Nor a Forked Out Relay Race

...For anyone going through crap here is a bit of madness xxxxxxx
Why is it that a juice isnt speaking to a nine foot tree? A nine mile climb to a fortune tree, is a vertical axis of cake bake. And tha...

Playing With the Paint

...pickle a paper and print paint playfully pointing pins
Knitting needles in a fish and chip shop is about as useful or as necessary as eating a soup with a spade. Dramatic are the arriving interludes...

The British Soldier At Balaclava

...By Robert J (Bob) Moore © 2016

I am a British soldier, been a soldier all my life
and back home in England, I left 2 kids and a wife
now I’m outside Sebastapol, with Cardigans Brigade
waiting t...

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