Best Squanders Poems

Friendship is....?

The warm feeling inside, we always get
when an old acquaintance is unexpectedly met:
the sound of a familiar voice on a telephone line,
that sincerely asks:...

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At the breaking of the new dawn
Where the hopeful golden glow melts the dew
A sleepy world awakens to the brightened new dawn of life
But at...

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SELF REFLECTIONS

These are poems about mirrors, images, self-image, reflections, impressions and self-reflection. 

Self Reflection
by Michael R. Burch 

for anyone struggling with self-image

She has a comely...

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CHARITY

Oh! Charity
An entity to behold
I glare with compassion
My virtue of generosity.

Chaste is my goodwill.
Woe! be tide those squanders
Oh!  The tears of the orphans!
Why shy...

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Slant squanders seer
Quaint quarrels *****
Needs nimble near


Nice names need norms
Feed flowing form
Pitch proper prompt


Sensuous storms sow
Grow gracious glow
Blooming buzz blows


Release rich roar
Surging storms soar
Bear bounty's...

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Immenseness of the contrast –
from blue eyes to red apples,
(we must stop apple picking!)
from smashed leg  to a stone wall –
squanders the soft toys...

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Turn me on animator
I have nowhere else to go with these suit-cases 
Will you play one for us tonight
If we promise to forget the plate...

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They lie forming in his freezer,
stashed away and in repose,
they always see the daylight,
like an arbiter who knows

his preference for Ripple rocks,
the liquor's almost gone,
alcohol's...

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Whatever Weekend

Being humble common pathways ere,
I ought traveled nearby that lea,
Past the margin of my home there,
Where the daffodils fickle sprightly,

As I...

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Daytime Somnambulism

How haunting the loss
When one squanders consciousness
Soul to surface
Dreams of dances unrealized

Oh how tempting
This somnambulistic space we possess
Where unlived experience resides
Intimidated by actuality
Hidden in...

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Sonnets LXXI-LXXX

Because You Came to Me
by Michael R. Burch

Because you came to me with sweet compassion
and kissed my furrowed brow and smoothed my hair,
I do...

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Life fragile
Throbbing within brittle bodies
At the same time fertile and sterile
Swimming in ebbing eddies

At the most unexpected moment
Fragility strikes a lung
Next inflicts on legs fragments...

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Our sire from the heavens spoke and spat into oblivion.
His seed cultivated an egg that speedily mated in bed.
Abundant life in never ending cycles,
adamant Wives...

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It is a feeling, it is a place; it is a thought, it is a masterful race

It's often been said, "you don't miss it 'til...

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The Answer Was There

It's clearly winter, time that we splinter, solely be discontent,
in droves, we amass, divides lads and lass, beg peers disorient,

Lurch therefrom harshly,...

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