Earthward Poems - Poems about Earthward

God's Blessings

...Alluring Blessings Come Down Earthward, From God.
Heaven Intercedes Jubilant, Kindles Love- 
Magnificent Nourishment, Obliterates pride. 
Questing Radiant Souls Thirst Umpteen Virtues....

Icarus

...Building your wings feather by feather.
Checking the skies, watching the weather.
Sitting alone, dreaming of angels
And birds of a wing flocking together.
Experiments fail, trying again.
Experie...

Pause for thought

...

I can feel my tendons contort
The sickening crunch of bones breakage
The skin across my face pulling to a snout
My lips ripping apart as razored enamel
adorns a snap
Can’t stand
Beneath me ...

Cat Walk

....

        Some in the audience 
         shook their heads in 
                 disbelief
       whilst their entertainer
       strutted 'long the stage
         with the diaphanous 
      ...

Orange Roses

...orange roses grass
under wrap around blue sky
pretty as summer

blooms dusted with gold
and glittering all their lives
beckoning with scents

orange episode
of sweetest time's duration
eart...

Zen Death Haiku Iii

...ZEN DEATH HAIKU III

Spring
stirs the clouds
in the sky's teabowl
—Kikusha-ni, loose translation by Michael R. Burch

Tonight I saw
how the peony crumples
in the fire's embers
—Katoh Shuhso...

The Epiphany of Three Men of the Cloth

...*Image of The Collection Plate by TPW.

The Epiphany of Three Men of the Cloth

My submission is of an objective accounting that had scintillated at my workplace yond th...

The Hallowed Harvest

...From its pillowy overlay, the Sun emerges
Bright saturized yellow, ultraviolet rays,
Enough to burn and blind and sting,
glances down on mankind,
To see what they got up to during the night.

 ...

The Collection Plate

...*Image of What Happens When I Put ... by UMC.

The Collection Plate,

'Tis a simple sacred place of worship bearing no weight, whereto, one's faith unchallenged, accepted universally....

Snowflakes

...frosty frozen flakes
earthward bound...
a winter flurry

crystalline fragile flakes
squeaking loudly under my feet...
winter’s silence broken...

Bat View

...ups down
downs up

sky sea
flipped

hour glass
times up

heels now
top heads

trees hang
by roots

mountains
dangle

smoke leaks
earthward

heaven's
under

above
is hell

o...

Exhumed

...A fallow season,
a time of trivial hungers,
but also a term put away
within a stone breaking age.

It was a Wednesday, 
a day with sorrow sewn into it
like a prison blanket.

Nevertheless, a...

Poems About Icarus

...Southern Icarus
by Michael R. Burch

Windborne, lover of heights,
unspooled from the truck’s wildly lurching embrace,
you climb, skittish kite...

What do you know of the world’s despair,
gli...

Guardian In the Rain

...
Rain
crashing
earthward that
night, I take the
freeway curve at too
risky a speed, on too
bald a tire. Traction gives out,
the car spins one revolution,
stopping safely between two ...

Poems About Flight, Flying and Birds I

...Poems about Flight, Flying, and Birds (I)



Flight
by Michael R. Burch

It is the nature of loveliness to vanish
as hummingbird wings, batting against nothingness
seek transcendence...


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