Christmas Innocence Poems

Born December 5, 1961,
blonde cherubic, lips of rose buds,
eyes of the bluest baby innocence.
Remember the 1960's brother,
Massapequa proud, Long Island.
Our Cedar Street,
lined once with what...

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(Christmas mantle, 2023)

The End of Innocence

I’m about to begin reading Don Quixote 
which will be a first for me,
but I know its gist,
and how it’s...

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In solitude with eyes
closed, a bell flashes with a
little girl chuckling, chasing it.
In stillness, silence, the bell starts
tolling and the girl intently stares at it,
eyes...

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Tinseled treats, hung from our Christmas tree.
Young, saucered eyes, just gleamed and shined 
At the charming, twisting gold and silver art works.
For indeed, these are...

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Here I grow, a handsome fir tree,
Standing upright within my wood;
An innocent, then let me be.

Where now I thrive for all to see,
Strobilus stemmed out...

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Is any other season merrier,
or more wonderful than Yule?
Christ, the Child is our Redeemer:
shouldn't we believe He came to rule?
Let's greet Him with songs and...

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Being just four ,that loud knock on the frosted, front glass door!
The fierce ringing of the handbell meant only one thing!
That Santa was here with...

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On one of Christmas eves, I remember,
A rustic girl who in age so tender;
Brought the infant Jesus home from the crib,
Amidst swearing from many an...

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red petals of rosemary blew in zephyr when i saw my lover the day before christmas eve
the heart still remembers the way it used to...

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A little lad named Tommy Tum,
just wouldn’t listen to his Mum.
He’d loudly play with other boys,
and wouldn’t put away his toys.

Around the house he’d beat...

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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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"The Saudade Receiving"



Alate
Epiphany
God is a Child

Innocent
Protected
Untouched

Reverent 

Purity 
Pillaged
Hurt Heart

Broken Trust

Angered
All forgiving
Guarding 

Children
of Parents
of Children

Saudade

Light
Love
Us

(LadyLabyrinth / 2020)
LUX VITAE
Christmas 2020



Matthew 18:1-3
3 John 1:4




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When I was a child
With innocence of pride
I believed in fairy tales
I recited nursery rhymes
I loved Christmas and stories told
Of a king born in a...

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Birthday Poem to Myself
by Michael R. Burch

LORD, be no longer this Distant Presence,

Star-Afar, Righteous-Anonymous,
but come! Come live among us;

come dwell again,
happy child among men—

men rejoicing...

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Commenting on the Weather

My coffee is hot, 
the cream was cold, 
the outcome... just right. 
The screen, 
the window out and into the world...
awaits my...

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