Lillian Poems - Poems about Lillian

...Lillian's Echo Lillian’s Echo In the dayroom’s dim embrace, Lillian sat—a survivor etched in time. The air clung to stories, whispered secrets, and the lingering scent of suffering. She, the one-......Read the rest...

...VILLANELLES IV She Always Grew Roses by Michael R. Burch a belated eulogy for my grandmother, Lillian Lee Tell us, heart, what the season discloses. “Too little loved by the ego in its p......Read the rest...

...Little Lillian lost us two, a widower of warmth, we’ve been waiting here….patiently, for wherever has she gone? Night’s airing scary notions, her hands beaten bare, we cosseted, but days bef......Read the rest...

...I am from fast-food, From paper plates and dinners in front of the t.v. I am from the stale stubborn silence, Eating away at smiles I am from the Lily flowers, resting in the corner The Willow t......Read the rest...

...“It’s a parcel for you, Sarge!” the words hung visibly; condensed in the bitter air. Ice underfoot cracked beneath the sodden boots approaching; each step releasing fetid odours of rottin......Read the rest...

...It was a year of revolutions Worldwide, quiet little fights Wanting more from democracy? Fighting for Civil Rights.? From Hull three trawlers sank February, fifty eight lives lost, Adding to th......Read the rest...

...WHY GHOST IS SINGLE (ME); Olivia is very lazy She's also a bit crazy, She once sent my mom a nude with the caption "Your son loves this " You bet it didn't go so nicely. Cecilia is very self......Read the rest...

...Stop digging like some kind of dope I’m not sitting here without hope It’s been quite a slog To train my pet frog But Freddo is bringing a rope He’s like a small, slimey Lone Ranger H......Read the rest...

...Survivors by Michael R. Burch (for the victims and survivors of 9/11 and their families) In truth, we do not feel the horror of the survivors, but what passes for horror: a shiver of “e......Read the rest...

...They're polishing their broomsticks and sharpening their hats Catching little spiders and feeding them to bats Howling at their cauldrons and cackling to cats Cradling wooden stir sticks and......Read the rest...

...They polish their broomsticks and sharpen their hats Catch black little spiders that turn into sacs Howl just like the kittens that turn into cats And Spit at the moonlight that Halloween's ......Read the rest...

...They're polishing their broomsticks and sharpening their hats Catching little spiders and feeding them to bats Howling like the kittens that sit around their vat and coming to us shortly whe......Read the rest...

...They're gathering their broomsticks and sharpening their hats Found catching little spiders and feeding them to rats Down pesty little fruit flies and swiftly soaring bats All mixing in a cau......Read the rest...

...They're gathering their broomsticks and clastic lunar hats Sohrgetting all their toads and frogs for what we've known as spats And delving down a one way crete for wicked tracious acts Of Spi......Read the rest...

...Ali's Song by Michael R. Burch for Muhammad Ali They say that gold don’t tarnish. It ain’t so. They say it has a wild, unearthly glow. A man can be more beautiful, more wild. I flung their me......Read the rest...