Freshet Poems - Poems about Freshet

Meet Me at the Freshet

...Meet me at the freshet
   Where there is a gathering -
A swath of pilgrims wait
   For to find eternity -

Where there flows an old hope
   And God's love is evergreen -
Where His deeds are re...

Two Streams that Converge

...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...

Pebble Beach Day Out

...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...

Hereabout the Alps

...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...

Poems About Things That Break Ii

...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 ...

Nature and Me

...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...

The Persistence of a Memory of Apricot Shampoo

...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...

Freshet

...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...

River Glow

...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...

The Folly of Wisdom

...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...

See

...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...

For All That I Remembered

...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...

Cold Comforts

...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...

A Certain Saturday Morn

...***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 '...

Flood

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

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