Sonnet High School Poems

The right timing for a fun filled moment;
Long awaited is here to caress views...
Of open eyes, soak in sweet merriment,
To which awesome mind's enthusiasm glues.

Her...

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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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Juvenilia: Early Poems X

These are early poems written in my teens and twenties.

Regret
by Michael R. Burch

Regret,
a bitter
ache to bear...

once starlight
languished
in your hair...

a shining there
as brief
as...

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I had always wondered 
What my first day of High School would be like
And as I've heard
It would be the most stressful day of your...

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Thank you, Mr. Rogers (yes, his real name!) 
for rescuing me from teenage purgatory.

       Perplexed teenager, lacking social lumen
...

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There's something in the air this time of year,
          That churns the deepest embers of my...

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So many years before have since flown by...
     back then so young...but seniors now are we;
and here are friends I view...

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Looking back now, on my time in high school
I'm glad for the love, and even the pain. 
My experience has been really cool-
Working Hard, putting...

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I was sleeping with my childhood
    friend in the loosed cot. 
 The weak boy was recovering from 
   ...

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My wheels roll on, as my speed is very fast.
Each day is a memory, one I share.
Share with a special friend, with long black hair.
I...

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Life after High-School is gonna be tough
I will do what i can to get employed
Even though it may be a little rough
and I'm sure it...

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Two days before the test I sat enthralled;
My novel was for pleasure, not the test.
I had two days, why should I study yet? 
With just...

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LOVE UNDER THE HIGH SCHOOL BLEACHERS 
Some time ago, within a memory
deep in my dark, and most forbidden past,
when I recall your teaching only me,
there...

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The Yearbook


The years have since gone by—
aged seniors now are we.
I scan each page to see
lost friends with teary eye;
then note, with relieved sigh,
some are...

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growing up in a female family
and having a severe stutter was tough
but those stories came to me easily
back in high school I never wrote enough

as...

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