Write Life Poems

A little child once hopped round a hoop.
The child tried it once and it felt like the best thing.
The child went back everyday hopping around...

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Your decree has expired
You used to force me since I was a teen student
You kept forcing me during 16 years of flying
You ordered me to...

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Am I really this old,
so many ghosts
beckoning?
—Michael R. Burch

Sleepyheads!
I recite my haiku
to the inattentive lilies.
—Michael R. Burch

Stillness:
the sound of petals
drifting down softly together...
—Miura Chora, loose...

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Written: April 27, 2024

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Yesterday I was no very different from today
that has been an important learned lesson
I heard an old song of Billy Joel 
which now I understand...

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I paint
I write
I think
I try
I draw
I rhyme
and sometimes
I cry.

...

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POTD 23 Mar 2024 

THE PATH WELL TRAVELLED.

Two paths diverged, and I was thrown by doubts I had never known
To my left, thickly overgrown, was...

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These are original haiku by Michael R. Burch and his translations of haiku by the Japanese masters Matsuo Basho, Yosa Buson, Masaoka Shiki, and others....

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I have been in hospital last several days
 
I am about to have open heart surgery. 
If I don't I will die. May anyhow
. To
Will...

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That was then….
When the tapestry of contentment enveloped 
the enthralled expanse exhilarated,
of the sensuous sky called life. 
When the fervent flight was friendly 
for the...

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From embers' breath, on the weathered stone, I write,
A firstborn whisper, birthing meaning's light.
A symphony I hum, a nascent tongue,
Language, a seed, from fertile silence...

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We live together

Master: We are together.
Vilmos: Yes.
Master: This is a storm. This is rain.
Vilmos: Yes. It’s our storm and rain.

Vilmos: I forgot that English woman.
Master:...

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Vilmos: You can’t be bound for a thousand years.
             My life is yours.
...

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Ernest Hemingway:
live it to write about it;
book is loyal friend...

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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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