Best Distances Poems

DISTANCES CURSE... 

Over our shoulders it lurks.. Its distances CURSE 
it's the enemy and it hurts 
Most people CANT make it work
I breakdown when you say goodbye 

a soft kiss on the cheek
one last embrace to last 
through the agonizing WEEKS
There's a plane waiting 

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The mourners would mourn
And mourn their death......

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I remember those eyes;
it must have been years ago,
or so it feels.
Time’s eternity keeps
ticking and I’ve been
missing
the true things in life:
I’ve been missing emerald,
I’ve been missing imagery;
You’ve been travelling
into dust bowls,
guitar-strapped and
leather-bound
Even your steps make
percussive sounds. 

East, west, and the in between,
Lost somewhere in your
dreams;...

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All my adventures are at an end, 
and the treasure I have salvaged 
over the years, I have stored away.  

The map that guides locked safely 
in the many memories of distant 
places visited.  

Shorelines that always gave rise to 
curiosities of what...

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The miles that keep us far apart
are cruel and cold and lonely,
wishing you were here with me,
I'm thinking of you only.
Roads and motels separate us,
simple things that stretch and tear,
leave us yearning for each other,
distances too much to bear.

Faulty wipers, rusty chassis,
burning gas and leaking...

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Between The Kisses And Distances

What is that shape now taking place out there?
If distance could have a name it would be passion
A hunger for my love as she draws near
Eye candy on the wind is fashioned 

Distances grow remote, in a faraway place
Filled with emptiness...

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The miles that keep us far apart
are cruel and cold and lonely,
wishing you were here with me,
I'm thinking of you only.

Roads and motels separate us,
simple things that stretch and tear,
leave us yearning for each other,
distances too much to bear.

Faulty wipers, rusty chassis,
burning gas and leaking...

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In love from you,got it distances.
And the heart is relaxed in you.
In love from you, got it distances.

How do you leave separately?
You do not even come to meet us.

What do you find us by giving pain?
But in the eyes tears are yours love.

Yet from us...

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From a neighborly distance, the drama of a life's finality unfolded
A man named Mient. Once a well-known construction-scientist
When we became neighbors at Christmas he was a double amputee
Both legs taken by diabetes, then a man of his own ethnicity
Challenged him to a fight (Take it...

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Would you take my hand 
 And walk with me through 
 The shadows of dreams 

 Will you hold tight 
 When my screams echo's 
 Like the sound of thunder 
 In the darkest night 

 Will you be my smile 
 When...

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There are distances in geography and distances in time
There are distances between two truths – there is hers and there is mine
We can tell our stories about an event that happened to occur
But the facts inside the tales we tell simply do not concur

Neither one...

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Distances
by Michael R. Burch

Moonbeams on water — 
the reflected light	
of a halcyon star
now drowning in night ...
So your memories are.

Footprints on beaches
now flooding with water;
the small, broken ribcage
of some primitive slaughter ...
So near, yet so far.

Keywords/Tags: sunset, sea, beach, night, stars, moon, footprints, love, memory,...

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Distances (II)
by Michael R. Burch

There is a small cleanness about her,
as though she has always just been washed,
and there is a dull obedience to convention
in her accommodating slenderness
as she feints at her salad.

She has never heard of Faust, or Frost,
and she is unlikely to have...

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*** Poet’s Greetings ***

(Written for Victor Buhaglar)

Does the Malta shore pause its gurgling rush
Of roll-over waves to hush
In appreciation of your hand brushing its ending, foamed
Touch over the sand, which is the greeting
I’ve sent on to you, dear poet brother, as I do most every...

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Rejection Slips

With over 5,700 publications if I count poems that have gone viral, I suppose I shouldn’t complain … but I do have some poems that have never been accepted for publication. Here are a few of them …



Less Heroic Couplets: Rejection Slip
by Michael R....

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