Best Enervate Poems

What Good Are Our Tears?
by Michael R. Burch

What good are our tears?
They will not spare the dying their anguish.
What good is our concern
to a child sick of living, waiting to perish?

What good, the warm benevolence of tears
without action?
What help, the eloquence of prayers,
or a pleasant...

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Try to look around and see if there's something new.
Revisit the old-time scenery that you're used to.
Ease the qualms and queries in your mind.
Enervate yourself with more hope and smile in your heart
Sunshine that you see first in the morning
  will remind you that...

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The Hyper-Logos of Good Living  

A poem about how to live a more balanced and harmonious life inspired by Ancient Greek Wisdom

Avoid being vicious and malevolent,
Instead, be magnanimous and benevolent.
Express, in myriad ways, your goodness
And be polemic and quixotic in your kindness.

Let your friendship...

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Sonnets XC-XCVII

Artificial Smile
by Michael R. Burch

I’m waiting for my artificial teeth
to stretch belief, to hollow out the cob
of zealous righteousness, to grasp life’s stub
between clenched molars, and yank out the grief.

Mine must be art-official?zenlike Art?
a disembodied, white-enameled grin
of Cheshire manufacture. Part by part,
the human smile...

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“TSUNAMI”
May we had been prescient of the disaster,
The ocean with anger gave a bite bitter;
On this day some years back,
Every heart witnessed pain’s track;
Water is our life, our source,
That day it brutally changed its course;
Dead bodies everywhere found in stalk,
Even the peaceful evening not survived...

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Toddlers yammering
Grinding wild berries
Misty hopes dwindle
As the rays gray over
Another gaze through the dark
As stars dance round the moon

Boiling degrees melting the night
I wake up to life’s norm
Another day, counted blessing
Dourer than yesterday
Optimistic the Red Cross drives by
Or more graves we shall dig

Whom do I...

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Sonnets XLII-LI

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.



A Surfeit of Light
by Michael R. Burch

There was always a surfeit of light...

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MODERN SONNETS I

I prefer the original definition of the sonnet as a “little song” of indeterminate form and length. These modern sonnets vary from more-or-less traditional to free verse.


Maker, Fakir, Curer
by Michael R. Burch

A poem should be a wild, unearthly cry
against the thought of lying...

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Limericks III - Grab Bag

Being a peace activist, I once wrote a limerick in an attempt to stop needless wars:

Of Tetley’s and V-2's
(or "Why Not to Bomb the Brits")
by Michael R. Burch

The English are very hospitable,
but tea-less, alas, they grow pitiable ...
or pitiless, rather,
and quite...

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Your love was comparable to summer,
As if I was sitting around a hearth, 
Ere this curse, 
You plundered my heart with your pretty deceitful smile, 
You could hear its cadence, 
But it seems to enervate day by day, 
You trespassed this fortified heart without any...

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WAKE-UP SLEEPING FRIEND, 
LET YOUR VOICE BE HEARD, 
TIME TO RISE FROM THE ASHEN, 
LIKE PHOENIX THE MYTHICAL BIRD. 

BASE OF CHEMATICS, 
HACKING INTO YOUR SYSTEM. 
WAR-MINDED TACTICS, 
POWERS QUICK TO CONDENM. 
RISING EMINENT-DOMAIN, 
POOR FAMILIES' GRIEF. 
MAN-MADE ACID RAIN, 
FOOLS CRAVE FOR RELIEF. 
CYBERNETIC...

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LOVE POEMS IV by Michael R. Burch

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



She Was Very Strange, and Beautiful
by Michael R. Burch

She was very strange, and beautiful,
like a violet...

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Thirst For More

Form new bridges, and dispel hardship elsewhere.
Costly moves break ties with a direct hit.
Enervate what's left of reminants along the way.
Keep nearer pastel roses of friendship.
Bemuse as oneself, would aspire with fresh roots.
Mend entitlement of a disconnected spirit.
Of brighter tomorrows, furnish to fit.
Stirs...

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"SAID" the people of Paris,
"Let's pray for those who died,
Lets pray our arms never enervate from good,
Lets pray against evil incites,
Let's pray GOD grants us the serenity we need,
to forge our lives in His will and not of hate.
Let pray every child be born free
with...

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BEAUTIFUL FALL

Brisk the breeze that shivers the pines,
Excites the mind, in throes of daydreams,
About escaping from the tests — that litter of
Untimely pop quizzes of consequence.
Thrust the football — enervate the bleachers!
Irradiate the touchdown of the student body cheeks.
Freeze the lament of leaves in joyous...

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