Sister Innocence Poems

I am being born 
again 
and again 
From above
Not from the will of men 

And in these births is one aching desire
to connect with you
my...

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Children sing uninhibitedly when they’re happy…like they haven’t got a care.
Children will begin to dance spontaneously when there’s music in the air.

Children will climb as...

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*** Awaiting Inspiration ***
(written for my brother and sister poets)

Reaching for dreams in the black of my closed eyes, but sleepless,
I go on in music,...

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My cute little brother, 
Full of pristine purity, 
Glows amidst people other, 
Full of divine sanctity.

Stuffed with pure love, 
Filled with intimate innocence, 
Like an...

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A boy stands at the window, 
showing his sister how to breathe fog onto the glass,
leaving tiny handprints that linger 
and slowly disappear.

Across an ocean,...

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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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Dear Mom and Dad,

September 25th, of this year will be the first time we meet.


I can’t wait to see your smile, feel your warm embrace,...

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Rejection
a roundel by Geoffrey Chaucer
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

Your beauty from your heart has so erased
Pity, that it's useless to complain;
For Pride now holds...

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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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A Blip Offering

I
we
they
and...

a show
a play
a picnic
an event

chaos
loss
grief
love
laughter

joy
connection
wisdom
truth

stranger
family
friend
soul mate

God


(free verse until it is no longer free...)...

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Lay Down Be Still

I am not responsible, 
for what happened to you. 
You are accountable;
to what happened to me. 
That was and is still a...

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President of Freedom

The last man in a long line, 
voted to save the future...
for us. 
Not all of us, 
but some. 

Those that live on...

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Enough

You fixed my car, 
when it was not running. 
You changed the oil, 
and made the light work, 
when I open my door. 

You mowed...

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The Yellow House

On the corner of first and no where, 
is a place that serves biscuits and gravy. 
They have grits and liver with onions....

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