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
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