Romantic High School Poems

"No, not again", you said
Your heart has been bruised 
One too many times 
I wait patiently 
With a first aid kit and a smile 
"That's...

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I’m tasting fumes 
Every word I try to say, 
burning me up inside 

I forgot all my chances 
at the girl-next-door’s house 

And I waited...

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

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And when his eyes met mine on the glittery night,
Just that moment when universe forgot every plight,
Every drop of my blood turned shimmery,
Those Stars above...

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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...

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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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Parody of "Casey At The Bat" with apologies to Ernest Lawrence Thayer

The outlook was quite brilliant for the high school stud that year—
the senior prom...

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A crush is someone
you're strongly attracted to
- they just don't know it.

He doesn't know you: check.
you like him: check, he does nothing: 
Check, you fall...

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green is not your color-envy is not your friend


 
Date Written: 9/2/2020
2 Place    My Most Unforgettable Moment in High School Contest ...

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Dance tonightl at the all girls Catholic high school.
Come on join us tonight, we are all looking cool,

New leather saddle shoes, bright, white ankle socks.
Hair...

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Twenty-three ...

The freckles on your nape,
          Tiny islands of wonder on your silky dermis ...
 ...

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Though Nervous...

Yours truly, quite dissimilar
to a woodlark,
nonetheless, this human
i(r)onically positively charged
to forge covalent bond,

hence this stranger
axon impulse to generate,
modulate, and spark...
assimilate virtual digital connection
with mine...

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~   Hey, Karin - returning your note   ~

Perhaps I'm not your type, alas
        ...

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Sitting in the classroom at the beginning of the school year
Worrying about how school will be for me as I sat filled with fear
Johnny, Sue...

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Would you still love Me, my honey sweet dear?
If The nectar of honey seized its eternal drops
Would there still be hope for you to love...

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