Best Diadems Poems

Jack Frost, Jack Frost, how we feel your icy touch.
The earth lies under your freezing clutch.
You are a sneaking thief coming to steal the russet...

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O ever changing sky, blue-gray and maudlin
your mood and unsettled ways, meld with mine.
Clouds seem but blemishes upon horizons
as weary as the soot smudged cheeks...

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As my youth goes yonder her beauty says to me yet, bet, yea,
in my mouth the word beautiful becomes a flavor of valor,
she likes to...

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"Peace in the Nowhere"

Ghosts remain in this place
they read their words 
marked each day on walls
like prayers, it gives them
peace in the nowhere

someplace relevant to...

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What pushes my pen in this whimsical notch of the world?

   Something whispers to me like an elder dream....
  
  ...

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Zircon’s Fire

Flames of deep amber glint in zircon fire
          Brilliant crystals smolder
    ...

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The wind has fallen, out of bluster, sun ices the sky
upon the crust of frozen snow diadems arise. 

Glittering crowns crest maple trees, diamond on...

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It is night yet in the West
   and the planes land between listlessly burning tarmac lamps
   stealthy fingers scurrying through diadems...

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Let Me Give Her Diamonds
by Michael R. Burch

Let me give her diamonds
for my heart's
sharp edges.

Let me give her roses
for my soul's
thorn.

Let me give her solace
for...

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A little quiet hill
Sitting very still
With a modest pride
Slanted curve aside.

Every tree's tappered stems
Adorned starry diadems
Glistening dew of morn
The dawn of a day born.

Sweetly they...

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They are nothing
if not taciturn--these sprit travelers.
They do not shock, or ridicule,
for  they are single-minded in their quest
for timeless realms where magic dragons play
and...

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LOVE POEMS II

These are love poems by Michael R. Burch: original poems and translations about passion, desire, lust, sex, dating and marriage. On an amusing...

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The cliffs were very high in Euthyphro's dream ----

   so aloft they seemed many a mile of mystery upon mystery.....

   and...

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Serenity - Lotus of My Soul

Too long, my soul,
Uninvited city noise
And fleeting seconds
Separates us 
Then robs us of moments
To meet through blended rhapsodies
In pure hues...

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I only tell of sunny hours...
    That grace my countenance supine.
    For dark clouds mask my daily task,
 ...

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