Freedom Daffodils Poems

One wish was all it took to become
that realistic dreamer too bold and fearsome;
challenges taken weren't insignificant
to defeat the slickness of the ruthless tyrant!

And he...

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Nobody can discover anything
that's hidden in the quite woods
of the bewildering wilderness...
if adventure and curiosity limit
our perception to fully explore it;
and it can't make us...

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in streams of sunbeams inviting
my face to turn upwards
I am captured by intangible senses of
nutmeg and cinnamon communion-
candy-coated moments blossoming 
As the wizard of memories...

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And one by one 
we step in,

Another day
another bar,

And as the digital piper
Plays his tune,

Dancing, singing
we take our place,

The digital prison
our new home,

our church,

This place...

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Looking back, one thing comes clean-glass clear
you were always there for me subduing every fear.

I tried to do my duty, be a husband strong and...

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A black rose once bloomed,
In a garden doomed,
To hear jeering laughter,
Slave of the white master,
Cry, for rose bushes have thorns,
Laugh, for there are roses on...

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the daffodil folk
by Michael R. Burch

to live among the daffodil folk...
slip down the rainslickened drainpipe...
suddenly pop out
the GARGANTUAN SPOUT...
minuscule as alice, shout
yippee-yi-yee!
in wee exultant glee
to...

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escape!
 
to live among the daffodil folk . . .
slip down the rainslickened drainpipe . . .
suddenly pop out
      ...

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 As the last opalescent glow of sunset fades away, I sail this ship alone    

towards a crimson horizon, over a starlit...

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(World War One Poem)

Field Of Dreams

The World has stated our freedom,
the worms shall share a soldier's fear.
To look above my trench
is to be a thief...

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When the saints go marching in
When the saints go marching in
The toils and snares of independence ring
When the saints go marching in

When the saints go...

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How long did it take her to be free?

How long did it take
For the wingless dragonfly to finally open her heart to the world

How long...

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A spider awaits a butterfly
As it comes fluttering by
It's  caught in the silken trap
and struggles as its wings flap
 Battling  for survival under...

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When I was sick and in my reclining chair
With the remote tucked in my _curve
Box of Kleenex in reserve

How I longed for the freedom of...

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Blending colors captured in a breeze
Offers up a tempting palate, tease!
Whilst roaming free above the swollen hills
Butterflies consider daffodils

Detained, I have become, in painted thirst
Swift...

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