Away From Home Poems

Now you have gone away,
I have not much to say.
Remembering sitting on the bay, 
even when the big clouds were gray.
I know you could not...

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When stillness calls
and busy falls away
When errors fade 
and joy fills up the day

When no more thought
is spent on what’s gone
When night has passed
and clear...

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Here I am standing in this secluded space with the pillow of hope hanging over my face, I cannot go backward or forward, I am...

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What’s a homeland, I don’t know
Sounds a bit too much symbolic 
I’ve got no land of my own
So it turns out hyperbolic 
This home concept...

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This was written back when Covid-19 at it's height. As sung to the tune "Can't Find My Way Home," by Steve Winwood/Blind Faith.

"Can't Leave My...

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I'm times of fear
Comes a strength
Ripped from the soul
In a trance of the obsolescence 
My pain moves on
In the freedom of resilience 
I rise again
The...

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A pain in my chest, no its in my stomach
Could be it in my heart?
Finding love so close yet so far away in my mind...

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In The Forest Are Cottages
Is a cottage built
A two story home
With a Bay window
It has a stone front
then layered with bricks
Their entrance door red
The garage...

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By Poet  "I do not know where the time goes. It just goes running away."

Yesterday when
Everyone was kind
Smiles were on all
The faces both young and...

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"A Writer must Feel The Words So The Reader Can Feel The Words. By Poet"


Have you heard about this new thing,
this new thing called AI.
Is...

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Cowpoke
by Michael R. Burch, circa age 16

Sleep, old man...
your day has long since passed.
The endless plains,
cool midnight rains
and changeless ragged cows
alone remain
of what once was.

You...

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I'm ready to get rid
of this despicable mood
that others find cool;
I find it extremely sad!

Gee, I had enough of rain for days,
too tired of holding...

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I see the gates in front of me,
The flowered fields that sway
My eyes have started searching for,
The pieces of my heart that were taken away....

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Adrift, asunder - the shore,
a vision only dreamt of
where the longing stares of sunsets
        linger and wish...
until, a...

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By Poet: "A blue carpet as far as we can see. My child I call it an Ocean."

I could not stay,
just needed to run away.
Being...

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