Eiderdown Poems - Poems about Eiderdown

...Awaking from Stupor 1-16-24 It's not desire per say but the clinging That stifles soul and stops heart from singing Enlivening silence sets our souls free Vibrant in the now, joyful and carefre......Read the rest...

...It was a brutally cold winter night, the type of coldness that reached into my bones, as if my heart were a door left wide open to the icy wind, slamming only to open again. I keep moving heading tow......Read the rest...

...Halcyon – 10-6-23 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Halcyon Across the still and placid lake Halcyon drifts In misty cloaks of tranquility Stitched with twilight patches of ......Read the rest...

... Humbling foliage, sprinkled in a bed A quiltlike pattern, reflecting heaven’s eiderdown, In notes, like a musician playing out the ballad Restoring hope in pieces - in precious leave......Read the rest...

...In the middle of the night When everything is still I awoke to hear a tapping noise On the window sill Tap, Tap, Tap And tapping once again I cowered under my eiderdown, Hoping it was the so......Read the rest...

...I'd rock you in the crook of my arm until you fell asleep And read to you a fairy tale about lambs and goats and sheep And when you stepped off into dream I'd place you on a bed Of eiderdown, an......Read the rest...

...Dogwood leaves in shades of rust and Merlot quiver in the first glow of morning light A squirrel dances with it’s own shadow under a veil of Oak leaves in mid flight Trees dance with the magic ......Read the rest...

...I haven't had a smile in a long time Autumn took my heart and its chime Serenade gone with its sublime I see its golden leaves go forth in rhyme Autumn took my heart and its chime And stole my......Read the rest...

...Stars wrapped in eiderdown sky between cloud ruffles peering, scintillatingly displayed celestial ornaments on which craving souls suspend heart wishes, yearning satisfaction as ardently as ......Read the rest...

...Lisa, a freshman in our residential hall sister-suite, and I have become fast friends over the last couple of weeks. Before we began hanging out I penned a piece about her that she thought was hilari......Read the rest...

...My most popular poems on the Internet (II) A number of my poems and translations have gone viral, according to Google, and some have been copied onto hundreds to thousands of web pages. That’s a l......Read the rest...

...Poems about Children V Pan by Michael R. Burch Among the shadows of the groaning elms, amid the darkening oaks, we fled ourselves Once there were paths that led to coracles that clung to ......Read the rest...

...NOTE: The Natchez Trace is the Nashville bar where I met my future wife Beth. We invented a game called "twister pool" which involved billiards, drinking and a fair bit of physical contortion ... ......Read the rest...

...Haiku Variations by Michael R. Burch This is a poem composed of haiku-like stanzas: Variations on the Seasons I by Michael R. Burch Lift up your head dandelion, hear spring roar! Ho......Read the rest...

...Poems about Fathers and Grandfathers IV Neglect by Michael R. Burch What good are your tears? They will not spare the dying their anguish. What good is your concern to a child sick of l......Read the rest...