Water High School Poems

In my dreams you interrupt, 
In my shower you limit water, 
Putting in clothes you drum louder
And getting out I'm sweating. 

You were to be...

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Early Poems XX

These are my early poems or juvenilia. 


Paradise
by Michael R. Burch, age 15

There’s a sparkling stream
And clear blue lake
A home to beaver,
Duck and...

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We’re one loose screw away from being
Ten hollow corpses 
Nailed to crosses we didn’t even configure 
Still gossiping like our hands aren’t on fire 

And...

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

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Early Poems XV

Ambition
by Michael R. Burch 

Men speak of their “ambition”
and I smile to hear them say
that within them burns such fire,
such a longing to...

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hinting a reddening of accolade festering-
attention directioned to tongue;
paling and tapering winterbourne favor for aptly displacing the sun.
entering awfully, jealousy fostering,
the chimes ring in as...

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Juvenilia: Early Poems XII

Because You Came to Me
by Michael R. Burch

for Beth

Because you came to me with sweet compassion
and kissed my furrowed brow and smoothed...

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It is hot! 
I cannot get cool, 
I have drunk so much water and juice,
I think ill just take my shoes off,
In addition, I just...

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Two and a half million seconds
That’s how long we were told to put our lives on hold
To have to seclude ourselves from the world
From our...

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Half a dozen girls, at least, were on my list of ‘maybes’, as I was on the prowl to find a date for junior prom,
When...

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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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Alone and afraid I sat there waiting, my heart beating double time and my head spinning in disbelief.
 Is this the right thing? Should I...

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I spent my senior year saying I was full 
when all I did was discreetly place food
in the napkin on my lap
A bowl of corn,...

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Rule Breaker

Risk taker, warrior maker…
Stand tall. 
He is with you. 
Do not fear, what they may say…
as they would say it any way, 
if you...

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The Tap
Drips
Into the polished ceramic bowl
Echoing 
Through the 
Paper walls
We should fix it
But it doesn’t seem to be hurting anyone.

The bowl is half full
Filled with...

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