Graduation Light Poems

Please hold the applause until the end, the commencement director said.
Some families could not do it.
When their child received his or her diploma they went...

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She sits with her head tilted over her shoulder
The typical sixteen-year-old, or not much older,
Her long brown hair sweeps down to her spine
This sweet graduating...

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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 Desk
by Michael R. Burch

for Jeremy

There is a child I used to know
who sat, perhaps, at this same desk
where you sit now, and made a...

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There has been much about being on a stage 
Since I started dealing with that adult style wage 
The Orange one used to welcome the...

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Once I had a school teacher
Who wore a bun in the back,
And took it upon herself,
To teach the difference between Duty, Love and Lack.

It seems...

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Since remarks from the T.V, and a stocking of my soul to breathe... 

I relax eagerly when I await the heat and see that nothing...

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Yesterday - Lost Thoughts - Silly Words

Why Poetry - Bliss in Solitude - A Writing Day

When Spring - Cloud Castles - Red is Blue

July Sauna...

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There is one question above all others,
That should be on all lips,
Irrespective of age, gender or personal belief,
If we don't want to end up at...

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Sniper hid vapors
tend to always bullet strike
with stealth air carrier accuracy

Silent noxious assault
pierced the nostrils
with oxy painful inhalation,
of the non-ventilated third degree 

Deadly gaseous arrows
hit...

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When I see you
I tend to smile
Not all day
But for a while
I watch you as you turn around
I remember every single sound
I watch you as...

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Our baby boy................. 
 
When your mother was crying in pain,
I took her to hospital, then I heard your
mother's loud scream along with your soft...

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If you don’t wanna flunk public school,
you gotta know the unwritten rules
And rule one: listen to your parents
Get your sleepy head out of bed
	and go...

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To my graduation as Massage Therapist from SSMT
(Sarasota School of Massage Therapy).

The year has passed. Whole year. Anazing.
At first, it seemed like so long.
But then...

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EXFOLIATION, I AM      
 
In my advanced age am I but 
       The castoff--remnants...

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