Lyric Garden Poems

                  Orb pulsates above a secret door,
proudly beaming...

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Like a flower, about to bloom, 
Though instead, growing in gloom,
The 'healthy' soil 'helping' us grow,
Filled with toxins, sprouting so slow.

Look at them, loving their...

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Mirabella had a big garden of pretty Azaleas
and towards moon she started a tap dance,
showing her ballerina dress made by Chris;
young boys came around and...

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Juniper June
You know, your berries are showing
Juniper you might not see what everyone else seems to know
here
Let me help you out June
Man July came to...

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Moonlight Garden 

Across the silent garden moonlight creeps
Full moon wears the blush of an amber kiss
Soft Luna’s face a midnight vigil keeps.

Moon lights drip from...

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To be sung to 'Pete's Dragon - Candle on the Water'

I'll be your rose in the garden
My peace for you will always bloom
I know you're...

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The Faeries Are Still Outside

Trying to cheer a garden up from the clay,
But the crabgrass won’t part
And the trees are snickering 
At the art-
Less way...

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Em                     D
We got weeds in...

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There is a withered garden many people do not see,
They walk passing around it, very busily.
Past parched grasses, withered blooms 
Shades of tan and palest...

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A childhood cradled in a mother’s arms. 
Like a sunrise aglow with hope and promise,
Nudging us to awake, our spirit charms. 
Bringing life from soil...

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Goliath Hybrids
By: Miracle man
7/2/2020

Some tomatoes are as big as baseballs,
plants are most eight foot tall.
As each one begins turning red,
Mocking Birds are pecking them all.

It’s...

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My garden is a stage
Where all ballerinas present their best performances! It's show-time! 

First breezed in the Tulip - the April-performance, the scintillating bulbs emerging, 
And revealing...

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For every garden
a weed must grow
for every rose
a throne must thrive
for every cloud
rain must fall
for every smile
a tear is shed
for every pain
hope is born
for every...

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Light footed faeries in subtle tans accompany Suzette.
Subtly playing Mozart-like melodies on their flutes.
Two playing cards, on the rim of her bonnet, giggling.

Blue butterflies with...

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Sweet Rose of Virtue
by William Dunbar (c. 1460-1530)
loose translation/modernization/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

after William Dunbar

Sweet rose of virtue and of gentleness,
delightful lily of youthful wantonness,
richest...

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