Freedom High School Poems

My Life is a song sung in a 
series of repetitive inferior notes.
I’m unable to record mellow melodies, 
as my violin strings continually play 
with...

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John

Dear John, 
When we were kids... 
just starting to set off, 
you called me
from the Army 
collect. 
It was half passed 2:00 am
and my parents...

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somewhere smothered
under the glaring white 
lies my summer

you know

the three reasons 
I teach

June
July 
and 
August

and it's just
January

so.....
i've come to believe
just as much as Persiphone's return...

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A movie, oh wow, when one need not be Woke!
A girl was a girl, a bloke was a bloke.

I forget I was born when times...

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The Man…The Spirit

His name was Dr. Martin Luther King;
He was a peace-loving human being.

HIM

Preaching peace and love–
A mountain top of a man:- 
Martin Luther King.


THE...

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The fun we had,formulated individualism 
We had lots of those
The focus we had,formulated maturity
We achieved it
What a unique class
The endless laughter
Lead to the enjoyment of...

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Remember When

Remember when we acted so sly,
Going to lunch and getting high?
Remember when we camped and drank all night;
all of us glowing in the fires...

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Juvenilia: Early Poems VIII

These are early poems of mine, written in my teens as a high school and college student. 

Moon Lake
by Michael R. Burch

Starlit...

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11th grade is a hard time, I go to school, looking for love, looking to gain knowledge.
My english teacher says she likes my poems so...

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My best friends are “there for me.” Each, in turn, presents their partial list of people who’re upset with me - with my “social suicide”...

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The hovering mother is never quite out of sight.
She hovers morning, midday, noon, and night
Darting from tree to tree, she’d fervently hide,
Or at the back...

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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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I used to be excited on Fridays.
I used to have interesting plans.
My weekends were non-stop hectic,
my time was in high demand.

Now I live in repeated...

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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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