Long Nonsuch Poems

Starlight and Moonlight II

These are poems about starlight and moonlight, moons and stars, dreams and visions, illuminations and intimations …




Deliver Us...
by Michael R. Burch 

for my mother, Christine Ena Burch

The night is dark and scary—
under...

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Final Prophecy
by Michael R. Burch

Listen to me now and heed my voice;
I am a madman, alone, screaming in the wilderness,
but listen now.

Listen to me now, and if I say
that black is black, and white is...

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while sleeping
i hear the pitter
but not the patter
that will come later

(how many thought
"latter"? "ladder"? or
"lather"? it doesn't
matter, dreams are
that way, happily
ever after...) but in
nonsuch lets say:

the feet steps of
a little creature
running top my
roof (really just
a...

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A character study done here.  
You always liked to stir things up.
Like a washer agitator
You thought your tactics a good touch.

Stirring, stirring until worn out
A good name you just loved to smear.
The fabric ripped,...

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