Best Permitting Poems

As I set my eyes upon you,
I was solely mezmorized,
Could the women of my dreams,
By chance, have now materialized?

The universe permitting,
Our paths will surely cross again, 
As I set out into the sunrise,
On my mind your being has been.

The time we got to spend together,
Shortlived...

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Villanelle: Remembering Not to Call
by Michael R. Burch

(a villanelle permitting mourning, for my mother, Christine Ena Burch)

The hardest thing of all,
after telling her everything,
is remembering not to call.

Now the phone hanging on the wall
will never announce her ring:
the hardest thing of all
for children, however tall....

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