Banked Poems - Poems about Banked

...Night Labor by Michael R. Burch for Rachel Corrie Tonight we keep the flame alive; we keep the candle lit. We burn bright incense in your name and swear we’ll not forget— your innocence, y......Read the rest...

...It’s monsoon season here in New Haven, gone, are the banked, fluorescent colors of sunset. This feeling hit me, like a rogue wave. “We have to go out tonight,” I announced, to no one in particul......Read the rest...

...Happiness is the whirl of lyrical runes, voicing of raging monstrous stories in loons. Happiness is the rough silence of the heart, that cries in loneliness of love torn apart Happiness is a......Read the rest...

...A genuine hero isn't one that's flawless Arguably not the one garmented with Absolute forfeits but one who is purely Accountable in securing relationships Amiably without trade of another......Read the rest...

...Ohbard and Pell meet up over lifetimes and dimensions for exchanges and conversations: sat two men of opposite age on two boulders by a silted island in a stream the togas worn with wet darke......Read the rest...

...Norwegian bachelor farmer days I never lived Woebegone and egg foo young on you meaning me of course sidestepping a crucial positive electric kool aid battery acid test prior to pledging troth......Read the rest...

...Rooted on a moss-banked hill, its branches spread far and wide. By Summer's end, leaves veined gold and crimson. Then, Autumn’s hand brushed them with russet paint. Twas the time of y......Read the rest...

... "The Whirled In Between" What dreams in the time of not thinking we spent aeons in conversations with the unbelieved deliberating choices towards our liberat......Read the rest...

...HOMELESS POETRY These are poems about the homeless and poems for the homeless. Epitaph for a Homeless Child by Michael R. Burch I lived as best I could, and then I died. Be careful w......Read the rest...

...These are poems for the victims of the Nashville Covenant School shootings. Nashville Covenant Call to Love by Michael R. Burch Our hearts are broken today for our children's small bodies l......Read the rest...

... “belles lettres” It’s a slow drifting off, that moment before you dive into the dark you surface to find a boat surrounded by shining pearls, Styx, a mirror......Read the rest...

...VERSE 1: January 1st 2023 I was on malaria and typhoid medicine Like 2023 is this how you choose to begin God is the greatest cause Jesus had got me healed Life is a trip, I’m sitting at the back......Read the rest...

...The rhymester fails to e'er descry the inner secret hearsed, his verse beguiled by beauty slight in Truth -- alack! -- unversed while Nature sups on Horror still in hurricanoes blind, bone-fires o......Read the rest...

...Anti-Poem— “Going To See Honey Sanchez” gloria and me we take a yellow taxi from canoga park we go to see honey sanchez at the olympic on grand she be the dragon lady on skates she and terri lyn......Read the rest...

... "Strange Vampires" all those years ago, when conspiracies flourished around did we or didn’t we go to the moon, when we were once human, proved to be lies, whicheve......Read the rest...