Poems about Science 3: Evolution
...POEMS ABOUT SCIENCE 3: EVOLUTION
Peers
by Michael R. Burch
These thoughts are alien, as through green slime
smeared on some lab tech’s brilliant slide, I grope,
positioning my bright osc...
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Categories:
hardier, bird, fish, fishing, insect,
Form: Rhyme
Poems about Science 1: Climate
...Climate Change Haiku
by Michael R. Burch
late November:
climate skeptics scoff
but the geese no longer migrate.
The King of Beasts in the Museum of the Extinct
by Michael R. Burch
Th...
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Categories:
hardier, earth, earth day, environment,
Form: Rhyme
October Song
...OCTOBER SONG
September was the summer’s end
With little bounty left to lend
But now October will arrive
An autumn season kept alive
The month that can hold winter back
Proud of its role tha...
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Categories:
hardier, october,
Form: Kyrielle
In Shades of Eternal
...Since I had long fervently loved flowers, I had become a plant breeder,
Striving to create more perfect blooms, to make summertime sweeter.
My current task was the endeavor, at creating never bef...
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Categories:
hardier, beautiful, color, fantasy, flower,
Form: Couplet
Juvenilia: Early Poems Xiii
...Juvenilia: Early Poems XIII
Davenport Tomorrow
by Michael R. Burch
Davenport tomorrow ...
all the trees stand stark-naked in the sun.
Now it is always summer
and the bees buzz in cesspool...
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Categories:
hardier, boy, child, childhood, high
Form: Rhyme
I Can Do This
...I attempted to put the pieces back together
I had been a glorious quilt, all dainty stitches and optimism
Until he did damage with his seam ripper
I can do this I resolved.
Revitalize yourself,...
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Categories:
hardier, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
Apocalyptic Poems I
...These are prophetic poems and apocalyptic poems ...
The Vision of the Overseer’s Right Hand
by Michael R. Burch
“Dust to dust ...”
I stumbled, aghast,
into a valley of dust and bone
w...
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Categories:
hardier, earth, earth day, environment,
Form: Rhyme
Olive Copse
...Olive copse
Sitting indoors being old and are forbidden
to go outside, I dream of lazier days
then in the heat of summer, I had siesta under
a 500 years olive tree.
I was dreaming of the shep...
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Categories:
hardier, break up, deep, emotions,
Form: Blank verse
Poems of Recanted Bachelorhood
...Poems of Recanted Bachelorhood
bachelorhoodwinked
by Michael R. Burch
u
are
charming
& disarming,
but mostly ALARMING
since my resolve
dissolved!
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Disconcerted
by Michael R. Burc...
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Categories:
hardier, desire, engagement, first love,
Form: Verse
Davenport Tomorrow
...Davenport Tomorrow
by Michael R. Burch
Davenport tomorrow ...
all the trees stand stark-naked in the sun.
Now it is always summer
and the bees buzz in cesspools,
adapted to a new life.
T...
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Categories:
hardier, earth, earth day, environment,
Form: Free verse
Where Does the Butterfly Go
...Where Does the Butterfly Go?
by Michael R. Burch
for the children of the Holocaust and the Nakba
Where does the butterfly go
when lightning rails,
when thunder howls,
when hailstones...
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Categories:
hardier, holocaust,
Form: Verse
Little Hellebore
...Through the driving snow I trudged,
Now crumping 'neath my feet.
Numb fingers, despite gloves,
Head bowed to the sleet.
Stinging cheeks, and frozen nose
Chilled now to the core,
To my surpris...
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Categories:
hardier, flower, life, winter,
Form: Rhyme
Rain On Rannoch Moor
...A misty Scottish gale blows fierce
From the grey that clouds the hills
I step onto her western way
Desolate, damp and chilled
Her grasses grow brown and lavender
Stretching as far as I can see...
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Categories:
hardier, adventure, nature, places, rain,
Form: Ode
Mysterious Pot Plants
...Mysterious pot plants
There’s a garden with some pot plants in the rain
I sit here and wonder what the colours mean and names
Because there’s too many to remember but some colours are the same...
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Categories:
hardier, creation,
Form: I do not know?
Trash Ii
...he will find a me
gonna wanta trim
the Ruldolph had laugh
to just to two more-
delight chymistry,
But health Never good
too slow an old friend
out of bound wild
call form Animal
whic...
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Categories:
hardier, angst,
Form: Blank verse
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