Freshet Poems - Poems about Freshet

...Two streams that converge And flow inextricably Are like two lovers Meandering about who meet - Not knowing anything of what They were missing before But now having full sight Ea......Read the rest...

...(Quintin Horatius Flaccus, Roman Poet, 65 B.C.-8 A.D.) Yes, yes, I know what they say about me – know it well, too damn well, in fact: that I am short, squat, and overweight with a face even......Read the rest...

...Beyond the wave-sacked, lie the pockmarked dunes, heaps dug by the claws of scaly thrashers. Here they huddle, my blood kin flogging grim pleasures, wolfing eggy sandwiches, dipping tea-stain......Read the rest...

...Masterful! lordly framed picturesque rain stain ing icy cap summit’s height, vaulting off grassy green pediplain’s sloping foothills, impinging azure sky’s obscur ing clo......Read the rest...

...Poems about Things that Break II These are poems about things that break and/or shatter. Water and Gold by Michael R. Burch You came to me as rain breaks on the desert when every ......Read the rest...

...Amidst the hills, there lays a greeny valley and a river flowing beside where it’s elixir dripping from the elevated peaks of hillocks, kissing the white creamy stones to churn, it into dec......Read the rest...

...The Persistence of a Memory of Apricot Shampoo by Michael R. Burch For all that I remembered, I forgot her name, her face, the reason that we loved... and yet I hold her close within my thought......Read the rest...

...A death-dance, a horse swept away. Hooves flash and slap the frothing pitch. Neck cranked tight, in the cascading white-waters. Terrible to behold. A large chunk of tree, just a large lo......Read the rest...

...The river holds within it a bygone starlight, as if all that was will be its movement into tomorrow. By that ancient glow long drowned ghosts dream. I also imagine those dreams travelling i......Read the rest...

...She is wise in the way that children are wise, looking at me with such knowing, grave eyes I must bend down to her to understand. But she only smiles, and takes my hand. We are walking somewher......Read the rest...

...See by Michael R. Burch See how her hair has thinned: it doesn’t seem like hair at all, but like the airy moult of emus who outraced the wind and left soft plumage in their wake. See how her e......Read the rest...

...For All That I Remembered by Michael R. Burch For all that I remembered, I forgot her name, her face, the reason that we loved ... and yet I hold her close within my thought: I feel the burnis......Read the rest...

...Beyond the wave-sacked, lie the pockmarked dunes, heaps dug by the claws of scaly thrashers. Here they huddle, my blood kin flogging grim pleasures, wolfing eggy sandwiches, dipping tea-stain......Read the rest...

...***A childhood experience where I recall my friends and I playing in the rain, but we became sad when the rain lifted*** The rain patterned dull, side the sill to remind the chill to rise '......Read the rest...

...Freshet Levees surrender Overflowing; ambushing; destroying ~ Overwhelmed, teardrops augment the Deluge......Read the rest...