Best Elfin Poems

The war is ever-nearer to the boarders of this land
Seeping forward through the woods
Releasing acrid echoes of doom ahead on energetic tongues of stowaways
Lucky to survive their ordeal
Here they are welcomed, and in this cozy tavern
Their woes are hidden in the shadows while they warm...

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She lay there, silent and still, in a falsified sleep, 
As her hands danced that tangible love with her blanket.
The blink on her lips told me all of her secrets, 
For my eyes she was a submissive ripe banquet.

Then her inviting arms opened to pull...

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I have no idea how to teach this cute little guy, 
       who has no clue what sound does a D make, 
       or a K, 
      ...

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Oh my pretty little elfin faced girl
In green woolly tights and pixie shoes
I’ve admired you from a distance
Where your smile melts away my blues

I watched you bloom in the spring
And bask in the warm summer glow
Then dressed in russet colours of autumn
And all the year...

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I think back to the days
Of that elfin faced boy
Sweet , funny and a little coy

Like a brother to mine
A second son
Lasting memories 
Of good times and fun

Two boys playing
Innocent and carefree
Full of life and promise
For who they will be

From boys to men
Decent and strong...

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Down by the soily brook they go, under the woody bridge. 
The Featherly Elfins make their home to hide from the Blustery Fridge.
Made of snow and windy blow, icesickles in his hair,
he comes to still the Valleyville, blowing crystals in the air. 

The Elfins chug...

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Oh my pretty little elfin faced girl
In green woolly tights and pixie shoes
Please notice me beneath the mistletoe
And kiss away my Christmas blues

Oh my pretty little elfin faced girl
I wish you would grant my Christmas wish
But it appears that I wish in vain
For you don’t...

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elfin faerie, what a doll.
Blueberry vine adorns a wall.
my mushroom dreams, here to stay
 in verdant forest, far away.

 faerie princess, you do excel
 give your all, extremely well.
 never a plot, rarely a ploy.
 in dreams of little girl or boy.

sweet wind is flying,...

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I told my boss this was a job I didn’t relish
Reports so far deemed this Elfin war rather hellish.
Troops had crossed the border and entered the valley.
So far we didn’t have a death or injury tally.
I entered the tavern, only a mile from the enemy...

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Elfin crackers
well, they’d sell better if they were called
Cannibal crackers...

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sweet elfin baby is asleep in her vine cocoon
we will let her slumber in the light of the moon
her azure eyes will not open any too soon
we might even let elfin baby sleep until noon...

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ELFIN WAR

In the ancient land of Lonvar, only a day away
On the other side of the mountain, it was war
Reports of fighting and the use of a magic spell
The elves were being dispossessed by the trolls
Losing precious ground, and their lives as well
Yet few around...

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Elfin Woman Who Loves Birds, how casually you sing their song
The wind, the elk, the beaver, the crow, all of them in a throng.
Want to tell you they admire your empathetic caring ways.
You have charmed them out of their doldrums many days.

Elf Woman Who Loves...

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“To the Moon”
by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

Scattered, pole to starry pole,
glide Cynthia's mild beams,
whispering to the receptive soul
whatever moonbeams mean.

Bathing valley, hill and dale
with her softening light,
loosening from earth’s frigid chains
my restless heart tonight!

Over the landscape, near and far,
broods darkly glowering...

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The Wonder Boys
by Michael R. Burch
 
(for Leslie Mellichamp, the late editor of The Lyric,
who was a friend and mentor to many poets, and
a fine poet in his own right)
 
The stars were always there, too-bright cliches:
scintillant truths the jaded world outgrew
as baffled poets winged...

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