Best Leveler Poems

The ice changes everything. I did not see it, but wow, did I feel it as I slipped on it, losing my balance twice. ...

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long hair                 a sign of rebellion
	a leveler  for...

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                our great leveler 
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With a wag of tail and tongue bedraggled
dogs drag their owners to frolic off-leash
in parks devoted to dog meets dog dalliance and play.

Despite their authority,...

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(A LIFE TIME IN A DAY)
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What CHOICE does one have at the crossroads of life
When winter sets in and SUMMER is done,
When the CANDLE does flicker with the roil and...

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Epitaph for a Palestinian Child
by Michael R. Burch

I lived as best I could, and then I died.
Be careful where you step: the grave is wide.



Autumn...

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The Great Levels Of Our Love

It starts with lavender and baby powder
My lover knows the fragrance and scents of love
The ardent aroma, baby soft kisses...

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Seed - scattered strewn or downtrodden.
Grain stuck on passive flytrap mucus.
Wild life biomes ripe with  open sesame.
Frantic birth pangs stiffen their gestations as green...

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Perfect Truth Perfect Love

The simple facts of life are just that simple
The fabric of our existence becomes sublime
Measure by measure
Love consist of ordinary things 
A...

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I Walk The Seashore Down

I walk the seashore down
Pillowed by silent calls of night
Land begins
Sea ends
Great leveler of life
I call my own
An echoed noise releases
Crashing...

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Juvenilia: Early Poems by Michael R. Burch



Smoke
by Michael R. Burch

The hazy, smoke-filled skies of summer I remember well;
farewell was on my mind, and the thoughts...

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Time marches on relentlessly
Ordered plans fruitless

Being alive takes effort
Every breath a bonus

Overcoming adversity
Realizing dreams

Never giving in
Opting just to be
Time the great leveler

Taking life to another...

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Today
I lost another piece of my flesh
Strangely
I feel no different than I had been
Yesterday
It was only a little portion of it
Tomorrow?
Who knows? It just might...

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Egg shells litter the nests bottom
forlorn thoughts drift on the summer’s haze
the nest crushed beneath the wheel of the mower
still retained its circular form.

High in...

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