Winter Thoughts of Ann Rutledge
...These are poems about Ann Rutledge and her romantic relationship with Abraham Lincoln.
Winter Thoughts of Ann Rutledge
by Michael R. Burch
Winter was not easy,
nor would the spring return.
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Categories:
felicities, history, lost love, love,
Form: Rhyme
A Vain Word
...A Vain Word
by Michael R. Burch
Oleanders at dawn preen extravagant whorls
as I read in leaves’ Sanskrit brief moments remaining
till sunset implodes, till the moon strands grey pearls
under m...
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Categories:
felicities, autumn, beauty, extended metaphor,
Form: Sonnet
The Altruistic Lamp
...Holding love’s altruistic lamp in her hand
She groped around in the falling sun, her
Somber shadows were lost in twilight strand,
Glorious flute blew its pain to her dour
Heart, the wind touched ...
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Categories:
felicities, love,
Form: Sonnet
The Grass Widow
...THE GRASS WIDOW
All this cowed earth in a blue jar, flowerless
Stands on the pine table. Clay and wood
Have broken spirit’s voice, to endow
With uncalled for happiness your fleeting presence.
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Categories:
felicities, absence, lonely, missing you,
Form: Sonnet
Blondes Brunettes and Merry Go Rounds
...Her fun house fingertips tracing dews drenched, fruitions lips...
Felicities ferris wheel; twined, their voluptuous femme fixations
Sixty-nine pink balloons eroticas poesy, carnival caravan of love....
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Categories:
felicities, beautiful, girl, love,
Form: Free verse
Gone With the Wind
...Boudoirs blushing bloodline
Adaptions; fabulous' fifth
Element read temptations..
Theatric lines unto myself
Feline femme fatale's
That I could touch taste feel
Film noirs vivacious staged
Lightin...
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Categories:
felicities, art, beauty,
Form: Free verse
Gone With the Wind
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Boudoirs blushing bloodline adaptions....
Fabulous' fifth element read temptations theatric lines unto me
Feline femme fatale that I could ta...
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Categories:
felicities, hope, life, love,
Form: I do not know?