Erratics
...(Wind River erratic, 2015)
Erratics
I used to think I was erratic,
like it wasn’t a good thing,
probably from what family and teachers said.
Then I moved out West
where the spaces a...
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Categories:
erratics, introspection, metaphor, nature,
Form: Narrative
Poems About Poets Vii
...Poems for Poets VII
Sweenies (or Swine-ies) Among the Nightingales
by Michael R. Burch
(for the Corseted Ones and the Erratics)
Open yourself to words, and if they come,
be glad the st...
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Categories:
erratics, love, music, night, poems,
Form: Rhyme
Poems For Poets X
...POEMS FOR POETS X
US Verse, after Auden
by Michael R. Burch
“Let the living creature lie,
Mortal, guilty, but to me
The entirely beautiful.”
Verse has small value in our Unisphere,
nor i...
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Categories:
erratics, poems, poetry, poets, rose,
Form: Rhyme
Stones I Have Known
...Stones I Have Known
I know that stone - scoured smooth beneath the tread
Of workers' feet too early out of bed.
It sparkled finely to my childish sight,
A treasure rare, lit up by morning light...
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Categories:
erratics, childhood, england, extended metaphor,
Form: Heroic Couplet