Freshman Poems - Poems about Freshman

...In 1994 I was at a crossroads in my life. I felt desperate-desperate for a job and for work that impassioned me; desperate to change my routine and surroundings; desperate for adventure; desperate to......Read the rest...

... Written: February 23, 2024 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ If there are idiots in the room Said the teacher, sarcasm in full bloom, Silence stretched along, Then a fre......Read the rest...

...POEMS ABOUT SCIENCE: COMPUTERS The AI Poets by Michael R. Burch The computer-poets stand hushed except for the faint hum of their efficient fans, waiting for inspiration. It is years now......Read the rest...

... In the sixties I went to university where I experienced much diversity For example, among fraternities mine went from ‘Kegs-a-Tappin’ to ‘Pills-a-Poppin’ ~ LSD, we ......Read the rest...

... When I was a little girl, I spent so much time hoping for… The day I turned 12, 13, 16 and 18. I wanted to know what it would be like To wake up and see that girl in the mirror, The one who......Read the rest...

...Sweet corn has been harvested, garden picked clean Breezy mornings now, ruffling the cat’s fur Front porch stocked with pumpkins and gourds School is starting, new clothes are being bought Last......Read the rest...

...My freshman reading list is Thomas Payne, Marx, Engels, Lenin, Trotsky The prof is not one to pitschky-potschky The leaders to be studied will be Elijah Muhammed, Stalin, Castro, ......Read the rest...

...Memories can become blurry, over time, like underdeveloped photographs, or incomplete, like sunlight through blinds. Our lives move ever forward, like the inflexible patterns of stars. Once ......Read the rest...

...We’re (Lisa and I) back in Athens Georgia (hometown USA), where it’s the halcyon days of summer. The south used to be the home of summer heat - not anymore. Now everyone has their little ‘heat domes’......Read the rest...

...This June through August romance must succumb to time. Each feels the silence closing in. They know the end is coming, yet feel numb. They dread relinquishing what might have been. A thousand m......Read the rest...

...These are my early poems, or juvenilia... alien by michael r. burch there are mornings in england when, riddled with light, the Blueberries gleam at us— plump, sweet and fragrant. but i ......Read the rest...

...Treated with respect and shared the light. That I needed for enlightenment and insight. To engage in this special scheme for shift forever. From death to life, I grew most joyful and c......Read the rest...

...Walking off a High School wedgie, Just digging out my underwear. Lodged tight in the crack of doom, These days it seems they're always there. This daily Freshman ritual, I try to face with chi......Read the rest...

...We’re shape-shifting, my roommates and I. Transitioning mentally from freshmen and sophomores (nobodies) into juniors (somebodies). We’ve been around, we’re not the new kids anymore. We’re being seen......Read the rest...

...EARLY POEMS XXI - JUVENILIA Dance With Me by Michael R. Burch (circa age 18) Dance with me to the fiddles’ plaintive harmonies. Enchantingly, each highstrung string, each yearning key, ......Read the rest...