Places Innocence Poems

Love was in the wrong places
Out of luck, there'd none at all
Veered cross his eyes on faces
Ebbed men and numbers to call

Twilight drops an altered...

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Finding your lost mittens in the school’s lost and found.
Playing with some puppies as they run and jump around.
Happiness on your first day at school...

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Their flesh is ooey
    Their soft places gooey

  Little boys say phooey
     to girls and chop suey...

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Justice
Just Us
What just us
We of colored race, what's up
 Variance of  browns shaded skins
Overly concentrated in melanin;
Just us!
Of African descent and other dark places...

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My heart at each breathe pace,
Is a rhythm which made it fazed .
what does it desire ? I ask.
Alas! No answer .

Is it that which...

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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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There is a hidden story here,
 wordings in the lines of a book that openly appear
   well-worn images cleared 
along paths and byways...

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“My Daddy’s profession is the highest!”…
bragged a boy during oration contest
“…He soars up above the sky
and that we cannot deny---
since he does fly as pilot...

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Who is this person who can coax
the ordinary into magical so easily?
A grey, depressing winter's sky becomes
"a coverlet of lilac gossamer."

Are poets born with exotic...

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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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Ince St. Child
by Michael R. Burch 
 
When she was a child
in a dark forest of fear,
imagination cast its strange light
into secret places,
scattering traces
of illumination...

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Egg hunters

Children play in grassy fields 
Their dreams so pure and free
They look for magical shiny eggs
In places hard to see

The Easter bunny hides the...

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despair hangs heavy 
in the air these days
 
but the only path
is through they say

an intruder in the midst
blowing his cold still drip 
into the...

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Things are quiet when I’m so far away, 
No one can hear what I say,
And the sun sets in blue along the horizon, 
By the...

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Teensy and Waiter
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