Summer Father Son Poems

Moon's midriff chequered with light blue letterboxes and legos 
Carbon-dating the museums of our miniature hands riding the nightingale jukeboxes, 
Contoured in concertos of glacier...

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A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else. John Burroughs

This is not a sad poem,
but...

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How can we know that the ones we love will live no more?
And the way they leave our lives is more permanent than a slamming...

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A boy saw his friends flying  the balloons 
and went to his father crying in saying , " 
Daddy ! It is my birthday too,...

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But like all memory, it fades as new ones are born
The memories rise to the surface and sink to the depth of obscurity

I remember all...

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A strike of a match would briefly carve
His weatherworn features
From the darkness full of his words 
Echoes from history of an exorbitant life
A face full...

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I remember nights on the south side porch 
After a full dinner & nothing on TV
We gather to sit talk and listen to cicadas cry
High
Into...

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Our boat is first to slice
The green snake skin of Clam Lake
This Saturday morning in May

Heading east to the mouth of Grass River
Where angry Pike...

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THE OLD-FASHIONED DISCIPLINE
 (Shenendoah Valley, 1951)

One summer afternoon
when summer wheat was high
--most already taken in--
and clouds were like lost sheep
drifting over the mountains,
my uncle-- for...

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don’t jump and hop on the boat,
don't make it rock when afloat,
drop a pebble in the pond,
watch the ripples spread around!
we are on a ride...

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I wanna friend like you,
Where I can talk in alone.
My heart is full of heat in summer loo,
But who can make it cool it's you.

Like...

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Poems about Children IV

Salat Days
by Michael R. Burch

Dedicated to the memory of my grandfather, Paul Ray Burch, Sr.

I remember how my grandfather used to pick...

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Poems about Fathers and Grandfathers III




Success
by Michael R. Burch

for Jeremy

We need our children to keep us humble
between toast and marmalade;

there is no time for a...

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Poems about Fathers and Grandfathers II



All Things Galore
by Michael R. Burch

for my grandfathers George Edwin Hurt Sr. and Paul Ray Burch, Sr.

Grandfather,
now in your gray...

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His ramrod back, his brill-creamed hair 
and waxed moustache gave him a certain air, 
a certain dash, and a military bearing. 
His speech was clipped....

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