Best Serener Poems

Fields where the bondman’s toil
No more shall trench the soil,
Seem now to bask in a serener day;
The meadow-birds sing sweeter, and the airs 
Of heaven with more caressing softness play,
Welcoming man to liberty like theirs.
A glory clothes the land from sea to sea,
For the great...

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LIGHT VERSE AND NONSENSE VERSE III

The Humpback
by Michael R. Burch

The humpback is a gullet
equipped with snarky fins.
It has a winning smile:
and when it SMILES, it wins
as miles and miles of herring
excite its fearsome grins.
So beware, unwary whalers,
lest you drown, sans feet and shins!


Door Mouse
by Michael...

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The space between is the silent river dream,
where the weariness of life has no capturing stream.
It is the hardest deed sowing oneself for seed,
by compassion the soul to soul will meet.
In all matter consumed by the ever lasting love of youth,
embracing the pure spirit in...

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