Romance Bereavement Poems

In love and war, they say all is fair,
But once, when I took the marriage dare
Feelings, dark as night,
Burdened me, an angry fight.
While I rested...

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You left me and it became my loss
Higher calling
My heart mourns
My cries daily
You soared to a new world
I couldn’t respond
Beyond my ridges
I will always remember...

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Written: June 23, 2023
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Extemporaneously, all seemed lost.
As flames of anger consumed what we had built,
Our love, once vibrant, is now adrift and tossed,
In a tempestuous...

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I believe that deep down, love is the reason why every season feels like a treason. 

I felt a frisson with no valid reason,
It made...

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The first dance was ours, our song, perfect words
A special dance, seeing nobody else, in our moment
Oblivion, blurred, just us in focus, slowly, tight
Two slowly...

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The Amourette Autopsy 
 
In vesper’s curt caress there seems no bind 
To daylight’s brim or morning’s dire decree- 
Your vertigo embrace confounded vows, 
Within...

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I found her jacket folded 'midst the drift,
          Atop her shoes but 'neath a ribbon, red,
...

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Gray Like Mist

The bird died today. 
My bird.
I cried for an hour. 
I can not cry anymore. 
There is no time left. 
I had to...

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After Glow

The pumpkin pie is steaming in the oven, 
just exactly right for the evening dessert. 
A sweet remembrance of all things...
that have happened since...

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In the footsteps of love.

I was disappointed.

After my breakup.

Everything was saturated.

So much of love.

I poured on her.

After my breakup.

It was a disaster.

Unable to forget.

Why did...

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Break Time
by Michael R. Burch

for those who lost loved ones on 9-11

Intrude upon my grief; sit; take a spot
of milk to cloud the blackness that...

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Clocks that Run 

Backwards to my day. 
I pray first and start off right. 
I don’t think I will make it through, 
if I do...

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Unseen Needs

The angel watched the woman, 
filling up her purse, with leftovers…
usually thrown out at the end of 
the gathering. 
She was careful to make...

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The sky reveals the setting sun;
Deepening shadows reveal no one.
No footstep to echo in the halls,
Where glows the ruby sunset walls.

Baby blue bird's made a...

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Spring
by Charles d'Orleans (c.1394-1465)
loose translation by Michael R. Burch

Young lovers,
greeting the spring
fling themselves downhill,
making cobblestones ring
with their wild leaps and arcs,
like ecstatic sparks
struck from coal.

What...

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