Beautiful High School Poems

Seems like only yesterday,
when I wore a white cap and gown.              ...

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Indeed he was in love with his poetry
Indeed he was passionate about his dramatically dramatically design dramas
Only to mesmerize his deletable audience
Indeed he was the...

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You also Want To..????



 I want to laugh in your happiness.



 Do you want me with you in pain??



 I want to be your shielding...

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Early Poems XVI

The Beautiful People
by Michael R. Burch

They are the beautiful people,
and their shadows dance through the valleys of the moon
to the listless strains of...

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Why was I burdened
With a reflection so cruel
That dooms me alone...

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If your heart was a diamond, perfect and clear,
glittering gleaming like a broken heart's tear,
if lust was coal, dusty and black,
would it make you realize...

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When you give insightful thought,
You can only be as you ought;
God has created you as you are:
Another creation of absolute awe!

So, do not be depressed...

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We learn from our mistakes,
From the wrong turns, we take,
From the fake friends we make,
And from the times we almost break.

Our mistakes help us grow,
But...

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Your smile is the path in the middle of a garden
that leads to a wonderful rendezvous

Your eyes are the shining celestial bodies
as I look up...

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(Apropos Of Our Virtuous Queens)

Sitting here in the beauty
of the blackness of night
my mind and its spirit
are spiritually
and geo-physically drawn
up into the reflections
of the full...

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Juvenilia: Early Poems IX

These are early poems of mine, written in my teens as a high school student and during my first two years of...

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Is there ever a time when it is too
  Late to thank someone for all they have done?
  On the contrary, I call...

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Woke up this morning with freedom
on my mind.
I’m perpendicular to the blessed ground,
well and alive—
It’s Juneteenth and it’s break-out celebration
time— 
It’s going to be a...

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1980 Something

Yesterday... 
Bell bottoms, 
and soldier pants, 
Rock n roll, 
like army ants!

Dittos, and Op. 
Style and fashion, 
disco and pinball
it was a passion.
 
The...

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Happy people go on a walk
But he listens to loud music
Each beat travels around the block
While she’s in a band and plays acoustic

What does it...

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