Best Thousandfold Poems

Driving through the broken, potholed streets
Lined with houses spanning decades
Each with a thousandfold more character
than that of the cookie cutter impostors they call homes

I appreciate the creaks and groans
Much more than the sheen of granite stones

Value comes down to values.
What are yours?
...

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I feel the willows sway in the midst of my  b r o k e n  hearted moments,
I keel over on my pillow with fists clenched, unguarded lost in atonement.

After all was said and done your death threw my heart in the tumbled...

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Be still my heart, I’ve longed for these entries,
I must declare to write in euphony-
My ink has penned passion for centuries
and my vibrant poems bring symphony.

Oh LORD, you’ve gifted me benediction.
My rhymes have become my significance-
I compose verses without restriction,
my parchment says it’s no coincidence.

If...

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You've been told.
Dirty laundry doesn't go on Facebook especially if
You don't want to get caught.
This was cold 
By a thousandfold
You two blocked a family member from a family
Function. Then when confronted lied and tired to
Cover it up as an afterthought.
You've been told
Running your mouth about...

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“Raptor of death! Wherefore seek'st thou me?” Poe's
     Raven craves me during the hours of night,
     an omen of despair that brings no light;
but instead gives birth to all my dark woes,
tears, doom, and pain that only...

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Once upon a time
A boy and a girl 
Fell in love and fell deep
Were on top of the world.

Not the strongest seas 
Could wear away our love
So I took your hand and watched 
Our lives soar like doves.

Not the loudest, howling wind 
Could ever break...

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Sleeping Beauty Turquoise with speckled white
Adorns a silver band to cast a spell
Worn to give a power to hand in sight
And share its story silent it will not tell
Its choice of colors range from green to blue
A gem of softer stone cannot be found
This sacred...

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In a mountainous spring fed valley lived the
Unicorns.
These beautiful magical creatures were here to
Transform
A miserable life in to something to behold.
Their stories touched my heart when told.
About people who needed a complete life over
Haul
When the unicorn came to call.
They always brought happiness to each and...

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     Vast wealth knows not it is poor
        Poverty is never quite sure

     Count children as a king counts gold
        ~ multiply by...

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There’s a rage that ignites when someone damages you
An uncompromising, bewildering storm within.
Your brain churns with thoughts of vengeance,
A thousandfold wrath ready to erupt.

But do you compromise your soul to feed the fire?
It’s all connected, yet so utterly disconnected.
They have no idea what they’ve unleashed
This...

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POEMS ABOUT SCIENCE 5: EVOLUTION



Fly’s Eyes
by Michael R. Burch

Inhibited, dark agile fly along
paint-peeling sills, up to the bright glass drawn
by radiance compounded thousandfold,—
I do not see the same as you, but hold
antenna to the brilliant pane of life
and buzz bewilderedly.

In your belief
the world outside is...

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MY DONOR DAUGHTER

It was easier to give you life than
To take it back from you.
Both were unknowns.
     I mean,
You could have been anyone.

You could have been someone
Unwilling to understand -
     Unable to withstand - the 
Profundity of...

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What lesson this, God's gift to humankind,
this nitid imago sent to spellbind?

Should I see through His eyes a thousandfold,
the dazzling blue flitting of love untold.

A grace. A gift from Heaven, angels sing.
This unspoken Truth of Hope on the wing....

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The first version

The clouds kiss me from above, the sun caresses,  
I am a son of the steppe,  
Do not call my chest hollow or empty.  
I cherish life, so radiant and bright,  
And see all people as kin in my...

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That gorgeous girl I spy each day,
At the station where trains dance and sway.
A thousand glances, met her eyes,
A thousand words, none a disguise.

Her shoulders bear meaning, profound,
Tears of longing, softly unbound.
I’ve seen it all, a witness true,
Even before our first debut.

Destruction woven in destiny’s...

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