Linnets Poems - Poems about Linnets

...MODERN SONNETS II I prefer the original definition of the sonnet as a “little song” of indeterminate form and length. These modern sonnets vary from more-or-less traditional to free verse. ......

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...Sonnets XLII-LI Distances by Michael R. Burch Moonbeams on water? the reflected light of a halcyon star now drowning in night... So your memories are. Footprints on beaches now floodin......

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...A Vain Word by Michael R. Burch Oleanders at dawn preen extravagant whorls as I read in leaves’ Sanskrit brief moments remaining till sunset implodes, till the moon strands grey pearls under m......

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...Fountainhead by Michael R. Burch I did not delight in love so much as in a kiss like linnets' wings, the flutterings of a pulse so soft the heart remembers, as it sings: to bathe there was i......

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... you locked up shadows in old chests with rusty hinges and ramshackle fittings those fields of tulips ......

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...A breast of rocks and woods with no song Four hundred miles of pines that endure And a path of chocolate sand with only hoof-prints. Cherries are red but no one comes to pick them And grass here......

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...What can make us happy Who is happy? Let's see, one with a smile Or one with peace And let's say a one with money The smile will fade With the changing weather And the......

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...Stars fall under failing skies...stars fall...stars fall... And sadly...i start to drive. Through the unremarkable village with its tall Georgian Bay window panes, lightless, devoid of visages; ......

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...Don’t be nervous, Nor do you grieve, Oh, Bard, soothe , In life’s destined gloom. True, Callous have ages been, To man and beast the same. Often did he trample, Many a mass massively. Leav......

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...Even in our winter season the soul of the coming year bursts through hard thick frost, Even in high piles of purest white snow, buds grow for our future of the next summer, Blow flowers stir and seed......

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...Today I heard an ancient song that took me by surprise, A song that since creation had filled our country skies. A song that has for centuries filled mans heart with joy, A song that brought back ......

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...Whence love with unconfined Wings faith within my gates, And my divine Peachy brings to whis at the grates whence I lie tangled In Her hair and fettered to Her Eye, the gods that wanton In the Air......

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