Best Gabled Poems

It was a lovely little house.

Built of white painted timber,

with a gabled roof clad in green tin,

it had never been a rich person's house.

It was...

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River hugging banks
its current flowing, winding
through a bridge ahead.

Gabled bridge framework
breaks blue of sky, like woman
steals rainbow promise.

Rainbow chases sky
laughing at man’s ceaseless dreams
to find...

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A miniscule minotaur is a mini mayhem by the way. In a catacomb place ones feet in a small bowl then look in the mirror...

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The quiet heart departs rudimentary tasks, idle-fast in what it asks
   content as a former-charlatan, like leaf and bough,
   tree, root...

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March 8th - International Women's Day The World Over

Down to the wire, before this
calendrical occasion doth expire,
though arbitrary twenty four hour
time set aside for guide
ding...

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This doodling Yankee (boot noah dandy) 
doth newt lack chutzpah, 
tries to finagle Fitbit fitting figurative footwear, 
that ideally Fitzhugh 
like custom made glove snugly,...

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Whether a totally
tubular ordinary day, or...hmm...
perhaps at the
approach of yuletide,
one need not go

far and wide
across the webbed world
to experience being unified,
this quasi motto maxim of...

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These are poems about starlight and moonlight, moons and stars, dreams and visions, illuminations and intimations …



Will There Be Starlight
by Michael R. Burch 

Will there...

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My neighborhood is decorated with festive lights,
Large inflatable santas, snowmen, and nativity scenes
Glittering plastic icicles drip from front porch eaves,
A wide-eyed Martian would wonder what...

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Near the cold, brackish waters, wretched with bogs 
where a gust of the sea wind, lifts the veil of the fog
a rider, approaches, through the...

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In the dim, dank night, looming high on the hill
By a slow, somber river, deep and still
Black scribbled tree branches, beckon the stars
with bent, riddled,...

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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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Reading diaries of different discussion blots is considered to be akin to perusing the top shelf of a historical library section. Each label once worn...

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Delusional love, received in kind
Yearly styles of painted smiles
As if gold both did find

A pyrite love grown so cold
Seemingly,
Either bought or sold

A dalliance glowing of...

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