Child Eve Poems

Glowing jack-o’-lanterns
Greet me by the door
Orange faces grinning
Or grimacing in horror

Night perches like a raven
Upon a twisted tree
While on the moaning autumn wind
Withered leaves fly...

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At day's end, I take in the last light
seeping into the dark waters
across the bay and keep it here.
I gather the sound of departing gulls
smudged...

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Dew
Soul of morn, at night thou sleep
Then dance in mead on blooms on grass
The pearls and diamonds  all there weep
Thy shining sheen them all...

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Santa’s sleighing high,
Among the starlit sky,
Mounds and mounds of toys,
For all the girls and boys.
Rudolph leads the trip,
Knows every curve and dip,
Santa turns on his...

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In the end it doesn’t matter.
The evening with its heavy clouds
coming down like the eyelids
of a child trying to stay awake,
slowly succumbing to sleep.
The last...

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It is always there,
never quite within range
where the mind can snare
some shadowy form, or shape
an outline and hold it long enough 
to name. 
It waits...

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When I was a child, outside of Christmas,
Halloween was my favorite time of year.
I loved creating homemade costumes from rags
to wear trick-or-treating in the neighborhood.
And...

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Late is the hour and nigh is the morrow
  yet a Little Drummer Boy his drum plays;
and upon the man of peace and sorrow
...

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All the More Human, for Eve Pandora
by Michael R. Burch

a lullaby for the first human Clone

God provide the soul, and let her sleep
be natural as...

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The Maker is busy in heaven once more,
Like he has been a billion times before.
He is making you a gift that matches none,
Wait for ten...

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As the clock ticks towards that final hour
some may wish for sweet words in place of sour
but I do not live in an ivory tower...

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There are many things that take my breath away
Gentle rain drizzling softly, whispering through my prayers
Stardust clinging to my laughter on the edge of night
Snowflakes...

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The poor boy heard Christmas beckoning at the door
He saw every house bright with many a lamp
And streets illumined with colorful lights and stars
But his...

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fantastical winter scene
murky azure sky
not at all ominous
adults in sleigh unaware

well-lit clock tower
snow covered roofs
blissful stars
child in sleigh misses nothing

mystical feelings
cosmos is in alignment
santa and...

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Year One -

Tell me Eve,
does this Garden have everything we need,
do you think the walls are too tall,
are the gatekeepers reasonable, tolerable, right about it...

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