Best Feints Poems

February Feints

February creeps across the mud
chuckling
knowing it is not her milieu
snickering
as she tats snowflakes
whistling
as she scatters them
icily
on freshly chilled winds.


©2/19/2018

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Poems about Things that Break II
 
These are poems about things that break and/or shatter.
 
 
 
Water and Gold
by Michael R. Burch
 
You came...

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Lady’s Favor
by Michael R. Burch

May
spring
fling
her riotous petals
devil-
may-care
into the air,
ignoring the lethal
nettles
and may
May
cry gleeful-
ly Hooray!
as the abundance
settles,
till a sudden June
swoon
leave us out of tune,
torn,
when the last...

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How can it be he is no longer here?
How can it be I do not hear that voice
His presence haunts me  from his ...

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Gilded pols with verbal jousts disarm
With statistical ballasts constituents charm
On opponents deceptive feints, sound the alarm
Scout for votes in city, dale, and farm

Broker deals that...

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I searched for you through the endless expanse of night’s long blackness, 
The shimmering light from a crescent moon offered little help in my quest...

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How can it be he is no longer here?
How can it be I do not hear that voice
His presence haunts me  from his ...

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Who'd  dare the exacerbation of the cloud
and cut the fire for the grave;
tell  the Epaulette he's a bum;
break the choking silence
and burst the...

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LOVE POEMS III by Michael R. Burch

These are love poems by Michael R. Burch about passion, desire, lust, sex, dating, relationships, devotion and marriage. 


Violets
by...

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Poems about Poems V

Distances
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...

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Gently probing her vulnerabilities
     seeking only the slightest advantage
   He parries her feints most delicately
    ...

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As if in a decades long
     somnambulant trance
     for majority of years
     I...

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Does an ‘act’ that gets praised by a stranger reveal an act’s worth
Or reflect more the generous heart that observes? To feel love’s 
Sure a...

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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...

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Violets
by Michael R. Burch 
 
Once, only once,
when the wind flicked your skirt
to an indiscreet height
 
and you laughed,
abruptly demure,
outblushing shocked violets:
 
suddenly,
I knew:
everything had...

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