Hate Basketball Poems

Off-season training
    running, lifting weights 
  Grueling workouts
    we loved to hate

  Pre-season practices
   ...

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FLOWERY   AT   DAWN,  WITHERED AT  DUSK.

Summer today Fall before  tomorrow 
A youth today aged and frail tomorrow 
If...

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Ali’s Song
by Michael R. Burch

They say that gold don’t tarnish. It ain’t so.
They say it has a wild, unearthly glow.
A man can be more beautiful,...

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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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desperate times leads to desperate measures wth whom do you treasure
we mix words in the street still trying to repeat moving ahead to the walking...

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flirting with fire blowin it up in the most earnest desire
 her perfume was led to basement blues remove those shoes
 bask in the news...

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Whispers

angelic premonition in the back of my mind
 sublime
 chill through the breeze in the trees
 the forest had an entrance door
 a barrage of...

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I remember when I first heard of basketball. I remember that I could not ever make a shot. I remember when I started to play...

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The Planet Of The Hate


From a great distance we shall see
 A land filled with make believe
 They hide behind a mask to afraid to...

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The relationship between us began to thaw,
my thoughts tumbled in my head, 
making and breaking alliances,
 like underpants in a dryer without Cling Free.
Talking and...

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I hate when people steal my food
Every time it happens I get in a bad mood
I once left my food with a friend
When I came...

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Boys do boys BREAKS toys.  Knick knack paddy wack. Give. A dog. A bone.
Some say the things that boys do are wrong and even...

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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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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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Did you ever wonder 
Why we say the devil 
And never the god
And imagine god and devil
Working together to 
Create this dream

To think our minds
Worry...

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