Best Lx Poems

IF EVER I HAD A COUNTRY : LX - LXI

The Yijing says : " If the common folk commit crimes, the fault for them shall reside with this one person (i.e., the Sovereign) himself… " Transl. R. J. Lynn

The common taken-for-granted French adage proclaims :

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Sonnets LII-LX

The Endeavors of Lips
by Michael R. Burch

How sweet the endeavors of lips: to speak
of the heights of those pleasures which left us weak
in love’s strangely lit beds, where the cold springs creak:
for there is no illusion like love...

Grown childlike, we wish for those storied...

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L,

While you're gone my mind tumbles
toward the sea
aimlessly bobbing 
against the rocks and the anguish
of a washed up surf

waves move me in
and move me out
of my own way

I reach for the light of day
the sights soften the blows
searched amongst the silhouettes 
inscribed in long lost...

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