Flower Hair Poems

midst winter's branches
a tiny green bud appears...
heralding springtime

sunshine will coax it
to become lovely flower...
to wear in spring's hair

February 17.2023
for "spring Flower, Bird or Butterfly, Haiku...

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Longing, dream and prayer is that
     Icy streams of your eyes be mine
Long soft hair spread on my shoulders
  ...

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MY VOICE OF LOVE

FREE VERSE


I beg of you listen to me
Listen to my voice of love
Don' t be misled, don't be confused
Love will come out...

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Pull the pink silky shaft 
of this arrow from my heart
Rip it out roughly 
rupturing both ventricles
allowing the blood to freely flow 
from the ragged...

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A Limerick response to Gershon’s “Hair Apparent“
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Hair Apparent 

The loveliest girl in the world's named Rose
From aquiline nose down to graceful toes --...

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Looking back, one thing comes clean-glass clear
you were always there for me subduing every fear.

I tried to do my duty, be a husband strong and...

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Hot In Havana.
.
It was a sweltering hot sticky Havana summers
Velvet star-studded night
I was sat enjoying the scene
In a dance bar
As someone played the piano accordion
And...

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With tumbling hair
                    I pick wildflowers
...

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Sonnets LII-LX

The Endeavors of Lips
by Michael R. Burch

How sweet the endeavors of lips: to speak
of the heights of those pleasures which left us weak
in love’s...

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Sprang open Spring a box of rainbow rains,
And Summer rains led to your gold grains;  
Juice oozes from your yellow, mellow grapes,
You play a...

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Mayan Poetry Translations

The Receiving of the Flower
excerpt from a Mayan love poem
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

Let us sing overflowing with joy
as we observe the...

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Flowing gray locks blown by the wind.
gives me a look of a hippy woman,
wearing bell-bottom jeans with a wide belt,
a big-collared shirt covered with a...

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Wonderland
by Michael R. Burch
 
We stood, kids of the Lamb, to put to test
the beatific anthems of the blessed,
the sentence of the martyr, and the...

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Your hair,

Wild lavender dancing in the wind,
Throwing Scents of heaven into our life,

Your Eyes,
Streams of running water,

Tears that flow across the landscape,
and across our hearts,

Your...

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Under a tree I sat enjoying the beautiful day,                   a breeze in my hair, birds singing...

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