Beauty Child Poems

I set up an easel in the shade of my beach umbrella. Wanting to paint by the morning light, I dabbed colors onto the palette...sea...

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Intriguing hollow log
Boyhood, sunshine, smiling
Slippery, slimy frog

Summer days whiling
On undulating grass -
Beauty so beguiling

Cloudy memories, alas,
You, outshining fog -
My bonnie lass...

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Can you know without knowing?
What is in your hands that’s not showing?

Is it the brilliant light of a child’s wonder?
We gaze into her blue eyes...

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I want to write something beautiful for you
How can when all I am is ugly?
Grab a mirror just to be sure
Reflecting sunsets and puppies
Can something...

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'I really just want to be warm yellow light that pours over everyone I love' Conor Oberst

Yellow, so bright and cheerful.
The canary, with wings so...

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Children's Poems III

These are poems for children and poems about children and their mothers, fathers, grandmother, grandfathers and extended families. 



Picturebook Princess
by Michael R. Burch

for...

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Children's Poems III

These are poems for children and poems about children and their mothers, fathers, grandmother, grandfathers and extended families. 



Success
by Michael R. Burch

for Jeremy

We...

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Let the children be

The carefree laughter of a child, sweeps across the sky 
The joy of playing and happiness can be seen 
Eyes sparkle and...

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Let the children be

The carefree laughter of a child, sweeps across the sky 
The joy of playing and happiness can be seen 
Eyes sparkle and...

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Let the children be

The carefree laughter of a child, sweeps across the sky 
The joy of playing and happiness can be seen 
Eyes sparkle and...

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Let the children be

The carefree laughter of a child, sweeps across the sky 
The joy of playing and happiness can be seen 
Eyes sparkle and...

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Let the children be

The carefree laughter of a child, sweeps across the sky 
The joy of playing and happiness can be seen 
Eyes sparkle and...

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TikTok, the new harbinger of sin, 
Trends promoting vandalism within.
Bathrooms defiled, decency abandoned, 
In the name of likes, morality to bend.

In the name of body...

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Clear, sincere, friendier eyed.
Purer that, star-lit!
Which beauty of love, now dimmed.
Daily and nightly.

The world he once gazed up at.
Child, peopled for it.
All he feels since...

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When I was a child, I wondered

Was deep sleep, death?

Was every morning a new life, a new incarnation?

Waking up, I found the people around me...

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