Long Motorways Poems

Let Me Give Her Diamonds
by Michael R. Burch

Let me give her diamonds
for my heart's
sharp edges.

Let me give her roses
for my soul's
thorn.

Let me give her solace
for my words
of treason.

Let the flowering of love
outlast a winter
season.

Let me...

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MODERN SONNETS I

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.


Maker, Fakir, Curer
by Michael R. Burch

A poem...

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Sonnets XXV-XXXII

Archaischer Torso Apollos (“Archaic Torso of Apollo”)
by Rainer Maria Rilke
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

We cannot know the beheaded god
nor his eyes' forfeited visions. But still
the figure's trunk glows with the strange vitality
of a...

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Stars fall under failing skies...stars fall...stars fall...
But stars do not cry.
Into Ochs valley, through the Vale of White Horse...prancing 
besides a Dragons Hill;
It was here that a Roundhead - did a Royalist Cavaliers blood in...

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A ramble in a bramble kisses a shoe horn in a window box

Having deciphered which tunes and vibrations cause reactions it was time to make everything the same really. Shame it was that day for...

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Calling Captain Hindsight, where the heck are you?
The table booked for one-fifteen and now it’s ten-past-two,
The waiting staff are anxious, they want me to move on,
Their patience was exhausted as I sat buttering a scone.

I...

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partygoers partying pock peck pock
A baa is just as good and effective as a peck for wools and beaks can repeal even the smallest of fleas through the movements of neck and the chewing of...

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As people on our planet, 
we could come together all
and build the jobs together 
so people do not starve

If you give the people wages 
they will buy your planes and trains
they will build your schools...

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I lived so many years in a stupor being capable of turning crystals green
Now I’m sober it’s different and naturally alters my state of mind
Experiencing a wider range of feelings than I felt before
Emotional intelligence...

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Well wobbling around in a pear tree dressed in a space suit can be very very dangerous. You might fall. And fallings are failings and failings flay the flesh from even the smallest atom that...

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We must haste

 They are so happy, the parents, grandmother’s uncle and aunts showing on Facebook the addition 
to the family.
Do they not for a minute think what the child´s future will be?
The world is...

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Oh on onlookers oversized overridden octagonal oceanographic organised octaves

A shrouded sinister sparkle said hello to a dish cloth today. But the array of plates, pans and cutlery shouted in protest for they required much manual...

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Coming   Home - Journeys Of Broken Dreams 

Strange journeys,
Of broken dreams, woodland  paths,
And mountain streams.
Long long walks between destinations. 
Motorways and country lanes,
Railway  stations 
Taxi ranks 
Cities and towns, 
Villages.
Silent journeys...

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A jellyfish danced, through canals of Venice,
To look in awe, at a superior menace,
That thought that it could take over a planet,
Each land it conquered, small groups inhabit.

And now, it seems, this species of ill,
Has...

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London is bewildered by its roads
The Circular, the North,the South,  the Codes
The Morse  and the  Enigma Turing broke
So now we have new bicycles with spokes

Once we had the A to Z  in hand
Turn it upside...

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Weight Watchers Paradise


Lemon pies, with feathered wings,
Floating in the sky, as the sun sits and glistens.
Against their skin, yes the beautiful people,
The ones who say, all that food is pure evil.


The bright morning sun, kills...

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London is bewildered by its roads
The Circular, the North,the South,  the Codes
The Morse  and the  Enigma Turing broke
So now we have new bicycles with spokes

Once we had the A to Z ...

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The therapy

Once I drove from the south to the North of Portugal
with a sojourn into Spain, long enough to see how
different the two countries are made me anti-unipolar.
I was driving around before the creation of...

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One day a tin got up from a shelf bed and walked out of a house. With the tin went eighty six knives, ten plates, and a large laughing ladle. They reached the outside world...

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This world is a bewitching illusion
The spring, the fragrant flowers, the chirping birds
The waterfalls, the sky, the valleys, the clouds
Are nothing real but delusion.

The gigantic snow clad mountains and fathomless seas
Are what is called optical...

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(The Italian wine "Est! Est! Est!" got its
curious name because 900 years ago a
German bishop liked it so much, he
drank himself to death.)

Those bishop guys in days gone by 
were deep and subtle thinkers. 
They...

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BRIGHTNESS
          Poets, be assured,
          I don't desire all the sun,
       ...

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Circling plane's writing trail's upon the sky
Traverse the morning star
As they pass over the dawning horizon 
While loved ones feign waving 
With car park tokens 
Stare blankly at the exit barriers 
That tell the journey...

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Wind, a very strong wind
Uprooting formidable trees 
Of righteousness, morality descend
Wiping the butterflies and Bees

That bestow color and sweetness
To discerning sagacious eyes
Tormenting souls witness
How humanity cries

Destroying all that is in path
Reducing frail houses of virtues
To...

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Well I originate from way up here
you see these water drops called rain
but when temperatures fall I do appear
for I'm ice, most folks call me a winter pain

You see I freeze into all shapes
now if...

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