Childhood Basketball Poems

Years before 13th birthday
Sun beckons me run play
In the street under golden ray
With neighborhood kids on hills of clay

Learning to ride bike and skate
Playing kickball...

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Winners do not quit; and quitters do not win.
I once read a story of a middle ages warrior
who was being held prisoner.  While in...

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Today was the same as every other day in quarantine. Wake up. Change into different PJs. Eat. Watch Netflix. Eat. And eat again. Go to...

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Looking back, one thing comes clean-glass clear
you were always there for me subduing every fear.

I tried to do my duty, be a husband strong and...

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KP hill commune
4 seasons promenade play
wonderland of friends...

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The Desk
by Michael R. Burch

for Jeremy

There is a child I used to know
who sat, perhaps, at this same desk
where you sit now, and made a...

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waking up in the morning with a cheerful glee
happiness is all we see
delicious smell of mom's cook
given to you while reading a book 
living a...

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Back then, life for kids was harder than it should have been.
They say that kids had rights too, but I don’t remember when.

Back then, if...

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To define the US
It 's hard to define America big and complex and many-faceted 
we in Europe only hear the noise emitted from Washington and...

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In Middle School, I played in several basketball games, two of which
were most memorable. One of them we lost but won the other one.

Once in...

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My knees were the things that 
kept me up and my skin is my 
cutting board my eyes are the 
rain clouds to the fire...

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Love is a wonder
shared by one another
it's the only reason
I'm not six feet under
Love in which I believe
in a will to sustain
I give back to...

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Reflections of imperfections
have shown me a way
that I can move mountains
through my power of faith
even though I can't see him
I know he is real
through the...

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I Love the elderly
so full of history
I love my generation
who kept me a mystery
I love the children
who's future, now bright
for I have died for them
to...

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My basketball sneakers could make me fly
In fourth grade I could jump so high
I wasn't the best on the team
But I was in my dream
With...

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