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Sonnets Lii-Lx

Sonnets LII-LX

The Endeavors of Lips
by Michael R. Burch

How sweet the endeavors of lips: to speak
of the heights of those pleasures which left us weak
in love’s strangely lit beds, where the cold springs creak:
for there is...

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Categories: cereus, dream, flower, hair, longing, love, pain, sensual,
Form: Sonnet

A Vain Word

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 moss-stubbled oaks, full of whispers, complaining
to the darkening...

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Categories: cereus, autumn, beauty, extended metaphor, grief, heartbreak, moon,
Form: Sonnet

Nature Poems by Michael R Burch

These are nature poems about unusual plants like the moonflower and agave.



Moonflower
by Michael R. Burch

after Robert Hayden

Marveling,
we at last beheld the achieved flower—
both awed and repelled by its alienness,
its moonlit petals,
its cloying fragrance,
its transcendence,
its shimmering...

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Categories: cereus, beautiful, beauty, earth, flower, nature, night, rose,
Form: Free verse

Moonflower Aglow

To Flower
by Michael R. Burch
 
When Pentheus ["grief'] went into the mountains in the garb of the baccae, his mother [Agave] and the other maenads, possessed by Dionysus, tore him apart (Euripides, Bacchae; Apollodorus 3.5.2;...

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Categories: cereus, bereavement, betrayal, birth, death, flower, grave, growth,
Form: Sonnet

Flower Dances

For some occasions, 
	when she wants to appear attentive, 
	her eyes are Morning Glory brilliant blue, 
	unwinding for sunrise, heliotropic, 
	closing at dusk,
	wilting into the dark. 
	
	As light fades on summer evenings 
	her brilliant white...

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Categories: cereus, nature,
Form: Free verse

A Lantern Guides

Cereus was in bloom in nightwashed
desert, sand was cool, it tipped off
the contour drain, a river sent its compliments.

If the death was at home, like an
estranged lover, will you open the door
in dusky stripes of...

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Categories: cereus, adventure, allegory, angst, animals, anniversary, art
Form: I do not know?

A Lantern Guides

Cereus was in bloom in nightwashed
desert, sand was cool, it tipped off
the contour drain, a river sent its compliments.

If the death was at home, like an
estranged lover, will you open the door
in dusky stripes of...

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Categories: cereus, art,
Form: ABC

Thirteen Syllables Or Less

the queen cactus
                                ...

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Categories: cereus, death, flower, night,
Form: Haiku

Beneath the Heavens

Milky-Way celestial garb
Oceans white, floating above

Shining cheer of moonlit sky
Heavenly smile, so divine

Twinkles on incandescent arc
Flirting winks of teasing stars

Dancing merrily on constellations
Exuberance of meteor storms

Whispers of amorous night 
Aspirations of budding romance

Humming joy on...

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Categories: cereus, nature, sky, stars,
Form: Free verse