Long Lien Poems

Poems about Children III

Miracle
by Michael R. Burch

for Jeremy

The contrails of galaxies mingle, and the dust of that first day still shines.
Before I conceived you, before your heart beat, you were mine,

and I see

infinity leap in...

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Part I.

Harvest time was winding down, 
I was taking lunch in town, 
After spending six long hours plowing stubble.
Washing up I met a man, 
Guessed he was a harvest hand, 
His combine crew, he said,...

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“liaison dangereuse”



Tear a thin line 
along my skin
softly velvet
finger tips 
no nurses gloves

down my neck
along my throat
with something
sharp like words
on a tongue

like I’m
one of the 
gentility heard
soft as a block of butter
hard from the fridge
I'll...

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Flower over stone

Excuse me while I lose my mind.
I've fallen through a rent in time.
Some great tragedy theirs' was
Details won't distinguish fuzz.
Mistakes were made as
Ever they will.
Were we witness of side effects,
Akin to a pill?
There...

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Children's Poems X

These are poems for children and poems about children and their mothers, fathers, grandmother, grandfathers and extended families. 



Always
by Michael R. Burch

for Jeremy

Know in your heart that I love you as no other,
and...

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Old Bald Frog and a toad named Ander
saw Sally wander down by the road.
Said Frog, "Now Sally, me and Ander
been wondering where you do meander?"
Now, Ander was a three-toed toad,
had four before that Sally strode
upon...

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I would have made the Matrix
make the machines to rebuild the Earth
And wake me up when you are finished
So this is a sci-fi one
Fade to ray
Do you think there is a minus us
You know the...

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Poetic Charmer
My faithful introduction  
My name is Mike, who am I to you?   
If you always prayed 
For a smile on your face 
I will give you eternal joy and laughter
If you...

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Mister Government Taxman,
IRe See
you’re reaching into the citizens’
		              pockets again

Mister Caesar Palace Chamberlain,
your adept eyes
	       ...

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Though I was young and less than legal age,
I had a friend who co-signed forms… rampage!
At twenty-one, to me she seemed mature.
A confidence of trust that is for sure!
Oh how I loved that year; I...

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At center of soul,
Lien my  wealth  of gold,
In the bible,
You’re very well liable,
To see gold,
In centerfold,
Of soul,

Not in centerfold ,
Of playboy, so bold,
Not in scorn of porn, magazine,
The mind thinks so keen,
Not in...

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This is my Homophone contest submission     


Ewe No A Lyre

their once was a man with a bore
who worked down at the local bizarre 
the bore eight corn colonels four lunch
and blew...

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Internal Revenue Service At the Door

By Elton Camp

It is a fate too frightful even to mention
If you somehow should get his attention

Might as well comply if he demands loot
For his power is very close to...

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I  have been here, the touch of the rose petals under my feet...The drink of lotus wine, adorned in white lien  and gold...   Behind the  veils , in the temples...

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I feel Disturbed
with the callous call to arms
for vested gains
and rhetorical rants of raving men
ostentatiously out to save your souls
having pledged theirs to Lucifier's lien.

I see the city ablaze
with dreams of the denizens on the...

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Kate Mulgrew played Captain Kathryn Janeway.
Robert Beltran played her first officer, Commander Chakotay.
Tim Russ played the role of Lieutenant Commander Tuvok, 
the show's Vulcan equivalent to Star Trek's Mr Spock.
Robert Duncan McNeill played Lieutenant Tom...

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Garth was a cat with an attitude, and he was grayscale true.
He had a pet mouse. I did not  dare chase him. Did you?
Other cats had tried to entice Garth to loan out his...

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(Title) This Generation
 (By) YO'LOO
 (My real name) Yolanda Alfred
 (About) The Generation/World/Community







 This generation... should be a separation,

 because... people shootin & killen but... the killer still have celebrations.



 I'm literally tired of the...

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MARCH LETS GO

On my knees, cosseted by blue jeans,
I tender the soil with magic beans.
March lets go of the Winter’s lien.
Clearing snow, dusting of royal green.

O the earth is suddenly Spring clean.
though stressed with Adam’s...

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Fear

It is a very small demon. 
It is a tiny monster, 
that never stops chewing on;
anything it can get. 

It is the one that hides, 
and comes home with you. 
It hops on while you...

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A certificate of deposit love's purchase to prepare
Penning love's earnest with liberal flare
Inscribing title and documenting deed no meager fare
Tapping into literary vault of esteemed relics your assets to pare
Initiating votive contract no trite chare
For...

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Carnal atrophy of the spirit is sin
like fallen limbs from winter needing glean
and yet still reaching upward for redeem,
subservient, still rebounding for esteem!

The will of man's invention starts the ream
pursuing some ideal beyond review,
yet all...

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Carnal atrophy of the spirit is sin
like fallen limbs from winter needing glean
and yet still reaching upward for redeem
subservient, still rebounding for esteem!

The will of man's invention starts the ream
pursuing some ideal beyond review,
yet all...

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What about the believers with no belief?
The weak and the bereaved
The sick with no source of heal
Orphans and the poor, all looking up to him
Lovers with spite and no form of relief
Secrets tomorrow conceals, with...

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Smeared my name, ruined my credit and summoned me to court.
No understanding, no one to listen and no one gave support.
Irresponsible and ignorant, I created my own hell.
Take what little I have to give, or...

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