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Nature Poems by Michael R Burch

...These are nature poems about unusual plants like the moonflower and agave. Moonflower by Michael R. Burch after Robert Hayden Marveling, we at last beheld the achieved flower— both aw......

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Categories: desert plant, beautiful, beauty, earth, flower,
Form: Free verse

Sonnets Lii-Lx

...Sonnets LII-LX The Endeavors of Lips by Michael R. Burch How sweet the endeavors of lips: to speak of the heights of those pleasures which left us weak in love’s strangely lit beds, where th......

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Categories: desert plant, dream, flower, hair, longing,
Form: Sonnet

A Vain Word

...A Vain Word by Michael R. Burch Oleanders at dawn preen extravagant whorls as I read in leaves’ Sanskrit brief moments remaining till sunset implodes, till the moon strands grey pearls under m......

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Categories: desert plant, autumn, beauty, extended metaphor,
Form: Sonnet

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

Moonflower Aglow

...To Flower by Michael R. Burch When Pentheus ["grief'] went into the mountains in the garb of the baccae, his mother [Agave] and the other maenads, possessed by Dionysus, tore him apart (Euripide......

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Categories: desert plant, bereavement, betrayal, birth, death,
Form: Sonnet