Art Hockey Poems

These are the best sports poems by Michael R. Burch, Part II

The Locker
by Michael R. Burch

All the dull hollow clamor has died
and what was contained,
removed,
reproved
adulation...

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Ali’s Song
by Michael R. Burch

They say that gold don’t tarnish. It ain’t so.
They say it has a wild, unearthly glow.
A man can be more beautiful,...

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Democracy,....

When we cease
To be a democracy
By extension,
We cease to be a dream
Muffled in the seeds
Of division and muddled
In abstention in acumination
    ...

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Orange and oil 
The old man
smells odd like 
burnt wires Black 
&
cryptic desires 
oranges and oil!
Static erupts like infinite fire.
Noise white grows in volume,
even higher.
oranges...

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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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Down to the two final teams 
it's Canada against the United States, 
three periods of hockey to watch 
which team will meet their fate? 

The...

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