Ocean Eve Poems

Eventide eases a discordant day
as peach amber contrails billow on high.
Pink ginger crawls throughout dark smoky gray
and fades as peaceful night’s cover grows nigh.

An informal...

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I asked the Fall, Where are Thy songs? 
She said that Gone with winds They all
They live with woodland nightingales
They live with larks and waterfalls
I...

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Forgotten Beauty

Scarlet Beauty in her deathbed
Beauteous than the dewy rose
Beauteous than the dale of hermit
Beauteous than the Oceans pose
Beauteous than the eves and mornings
Which in...

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Vineyard Twilight


In the soft cooling
Silence of early twilight
Blue fades to purple.
The wishing star’s reflected
In the ocean sky....

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Soft is her breath, as the full moon begins to rise high.
Warm breezes whisper to the gentle ripples on the bay.
Ocean swells carry the seaweed...

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We had just finished reading Twas the Night Before Christmas
“Good Night children.” Their mom and I said.
“Wait a minute Dad…something’s not right. We live in...

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EVE OF STORMS

As I look towards the horizon,
Without hesitation,
But with determined yet 
Heartfelt trepidation,
And see a distant angry
Storm forging forth
Its spluttering vicious curvaceous
Fearful advance holds...

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Purple smile
Of mauve evening
Kisses
Magenta sky,

Arousing passions
On hushed arc,
Courting
Evenfall.

Sun dips
In ocean,
Ceding to
Moon’s quixotic reign.

Bird songs romanticize
Night’s
Rendezvous with stars.

May 15, 2020
Placed 1st: Pick-A-Title, Vol 17- Yalto- Poetry...

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On the beach one night
Neath a late-May moon
My love bathed its light
Lunar beams to swoon
(Kindled hearts, attune)

Just two young fools
In cool spring flames
Held close the...

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Willy Nilly
by Michael R. Burch

for the Demiurge aka Yahweh and Jehovah 

Isn’t it silly, Willy Nilly?
You made the stallion,
you made the filly,
and now they sleep
in...

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Sangria sun sinks in the sea
  as twilight claims the day;
the sea gulls soar above the key,
  and stars come out to play.

The...

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wave rests on ocean
evening air, wonderfully still
seagull through the moon....

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Of what you know to be beautiful
never becomes a real thought,

of how you seek it out-
the lessoning of everything combined,

sanctimony as tree's can do when...

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CHANGING OF YEARS

The darkness overwhelms
sitting on an old com tower
well into the Plain of Reeds
watching for enemy movement
Using bunkers of a firebase
long deserted and long...

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She couldn't contain her rhapsody demeanor much more
hugging her husband and gushing with excitement as he closed the door
the third class cabin was modest but...

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