Farewell December Poems

An old year is slowly winding down
Where every minute and second count
Don’t hold our breath, just count down
Gently and slowly. A new year, a new...

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Written: December 2, 2023
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Amid diaphanous dazzle day, clad in...

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A sunny corner
Dandelions, hair gone gray
                   ...

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I wax poetic as lifeblood imperceptibly doth wane

Mine body electric analogous 
to Google map pronounced 
with arteries and countless varicose vein
visible popping blood vessels ...

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The termination, the conclusion,
the tail  end of the year.
Strong resolution, dermier decision,
to walk on without any fear. 

December, make it a moment  to...

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There is beauty to be found in December snow,
drifting upon the wind, where gentle breezes blow.
A month of glad tidings; wreaths of holly and pine.
To...

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I dream into tomorrow….
Because I can not see yesterday 
I lie awake ponder forever 
I see all that was and will be
If creation decrees 
I...

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Not long ago when the summers seemed warmer and the winters were whiter. When the trees grew crown of leaves bright, a transparent green. Then...

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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 hush came upon
The noon time sun
The season has gone
with this ground undone.

In snow as feathers
fall landing soundless
I see its letters
In perfection's guess.

The sky the...

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Vacuum
by Michael R. Burch

Over hushed quadrants
forever landlocked in snow,
time’s senseless winds blow...

leaving odd relics of lives half-revealed,
if still mostly concealed...
such are the things we are...

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He stands on the cliff of the broken edge
Waiting on someone to come and bury the dead
Night has made its final decree, and the villain...

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I am still here waiting
Waiting for something to happen
I am still here waiting
Waiting for you to come
Christmas has come and gone
And here I am still...

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Christmas was my favorite time of year,
then she chose to leave with a tragic goodbye-
fearing not the end,
left breathless under a snow-capped Colorado pine…
o, December,...

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Lipstick Lips



Lipstick red lips on
Tombstone remains. Bloody red
Roses kiss the cold  
Breath of death, crystallizing 
Hearts overcome by the flame






Marckincia Jean 
Tanka
10/13/19...

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