Fleetness Poems - Poems about Fleetness

Surrender

...'Time's restless surrender is but a charade,
tender and giving, but meant to dissuade'...by poet

If Time has its way, we must surrender
to each moment passing swiftly beyond
But my preference i...

Love Poems Ii

...LOVE POEMS II

These are love poems by Michael R. Burch: original poems and translations about passion, desire, lust, sex, dating and marriage. On an amusing note, my steamy Baudelaire translations...

The Moon As a Metaphor For Your Mouth

...The Moon as a Metaphor for Your Mouth
by Michael R. Burch

When I was closest to love, it did not seem
real at all, but a thing of such tenuous sweetness
it might dissolve in my mouth
like a lo...

Where Does the Butterfly Go

...Where Does the Butterfly Go?
by Michael R. Burch

for the children of the Holocaust and the Nakba

Where does the butterfly go
when lightning rails,
when thunder howls,
when hailstones...

After the Deluge

...She was kinder than light
to an up-reaching flower
and sweeter than rain
to the bees in their bower
where anemones blush
at the affections they shower,
and love’s shocking power.

She shocked...

Ancient Hunt

...Moccasins crunching on crusted snow,
wolf-fur hood warming what I breathe,
jogging with lance and tomahawk,
other friends spread out, left and right.

The wapiti run before us,
big elk, eight o...

For the Fallen In Flanders Field

...Famished and flagging footsoldiers;
facing fatigue, fitful fever,
faeces and foul, foetid fungi.
Fostering feelings, frustrated,
for this faraway, foreign field.

Forays so fraught with fine fa...

For the Fallen In Flanders Field - Original

...Famished and flagging footsoldiers;
formerly fitters and farmers.
Facing fatigue, fitful fever,
faeces and foul, foetid fungi.
Fostering feelings, frustrated,
for this faraway, foreign field.

...

Caveman Atmosphere Re-Created with a Twist

...Should a caveman or woman accidentally wander into our time zone,
He or she would feel right at home,
With their keen ear easily able to interpret our not-so-subtle Grunts,
And groans.
Their good...

White Lilacs

...White Lilacs

Memories rise
   like the scent of lilacs in the air
   simple yet fragrant filled with now forgotten cares,
once so important
   nothing could contain them
   as life hurried fo...

Fire of the Forrest Dragon

...Fire of the Forrest Dragon
I foretold the coming storm
The signs so plainly warn
Like sparks floating amongst a darkening night 
The earthen moistures and cool air descending  
My conjecture obs...

Serena

...Her opponents on the court
Must battle inner quaking
In anticipation of the shots
That she will soon be making.

Watching her attack the ball
Is so intimidating,
I would hate to be the one
Across the...

The Gazelle

...Among Solomon’s first love commands in the book of his Song of Songs,

He adjures the young maidens by the gazelle, and how charm makes them strong.

For the gazelle is a gorgeous creature with  beau...

The Beer Christmas Prayer

...Dear Lord You have seen fit
          To bestow on us this year
       The beauty in the morning sun
           The fleetness of a deer.

      The majesty of the rolling plain
            The ...

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