Long Nurseries Poems

The Original Sin: Rhyming Haiku!
 
Haiku
should never rhyme:
it’s a crime!
-Michael R. Burch
 
The herons stand,
sentry-like, at attention ...
rigid observers of some unknown command.
-Michael R. Burch
 
Late
fall;
all
the golden leaves turn black underfoot:
soot
-Michael R. Burch
 
Dry leaf...

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6 miles up river Arikara are encountered,
they are a people of amenable disposition and are agrarians,
they chuckle with sympathy as we inform them of our grizzly confrontation
and they tell us that disease had forced them...

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Haiku Variations
by Michael R. Burch

This is a poem composed of haiku-like stanzas:


Variations on the Seasons I
by Michael R. Burch

Lift up your head
dandelion,
hear spring roar!

How will you tidy your hair
this near
summer?

Leave to each still night
your lightest...

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the Universe, a self-defining everything
  but then, what of the Cosmos wherein we all dwell?
  that big bang blast, forever on a far-flung fling
  from beyond and within which, lurks heaven and...

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The poet Basho, whose name is acclaimed
worldwide for haiku esteemed,
wrote myriad works for their greatness famed
and frequently nature themed.

Japan in the sixteen hundreds was where
his lyric verses were penned
mid trips solitary in open air
which continued...

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Putin said he wouldn't invade, but then he's known for his lies
So when he sent in his murdering scum, it came as no surprise 
It will go down in the annals of history, as Putin's...

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Origins

In a Planck second ‘The Big Bang,’
And the arrow of time of entropy erupted.
Based on this premise the theorists conclude;
Out of nothing, something
Engulfed in dark energy and matter;—
That is to say; ‘Where motion ceased to...

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beautiful delicate moments from my childhood ...
    is when I was helping mother ... in her flower garden
      father always said we were happiness digging
  ...

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in my city of Canada ...
   the snowdrop flower ... welcomes Spring
      growing through the melting snow
         the flower contour...

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WAR
Senseless killings
Barbaric and animalistic desires
Necrophilia and sadomasochism
Blinded by nationalistic pride
All out war
So babies have no where to hide
Drone attacks on hospitals and nurseries 
They bury their corpses
In cheap boxes
Bombs and guided missiles
Strike targets from the...

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(an interview with a Vampire)


A grain of sand was once my rock
this rock was once my life
and life was but a story,
lost in the nurseries of time.

The shadows you see
cannot be trusted,
the sun bleeds red...

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A special place a kinder garden where no one know's hearts that harden                      ...

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I soar into the universe

On a journey to destinations unknown

And as I leave, I see a tear in your eye

As I wave you goodbye

To destinations unknown,

So let the good times roll

As I head off on...

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On Alabaster Wings

I dream of taking flight with you, around Saturn's rings
If only we could soar above the clouds on alabaster wings
Over mountains we'd fly until we reach the brightest star
I'd never tire of starlight...

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The nurseries wake within their field,
as the Liliums lift and liberate.
Rise oh children of heaven,
for Emma speaks to you of joy…
She dances with Daisies,
amidst the diminishing dawn,
Pleasantly prancing ~
within perennial pastures;
The Gardenias gather amongst the...

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On Alabaster Wings

I dream of taking flight with you, around Saturn's rings
If only we could soar above the clouds on alabaster wings
Over mountains we'd fly until we reach the brightest star
I'd never tire of starlight...

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You can hear the sound of creation
Quietly whispering through space
Last remnants of the explosion from
When The Big Bang first took place,
That in time formed the first stars,
Can still hear sound of that reaction
Starting off the...

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The yarrow is a show stealer,
       a charming wildflower and garden plant
                 ...

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Anapest Pentameter

Have you noticed the different number of options in life?
Choices make us what we are today in work, play, or strong faith.
It's the same in the flora and fauna selections, all rife
with diversification of...

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I look at the night sky in awe at the stars

Wondering why they are there?

Are they a celestial map for the angels

Or are they signs to us from the divine?

Are the stars there as an...

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Since moving to the country 
this fact has come to light,
maintaining our new home
gives us a battle to fight.

Newly graded and seeded lawn
quickly became uneven ground,
mole runs crisscrossed acres,
flowerbeds raided, bulbs gone.

Two hundred tulip bulbs...

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My most fervent hope is of the species that, 
It wonders most powerfully and unceasingly anent the security of 
These notebooks containing these selfsame poetic works;
And I hope also, that asleep and secured is how...

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Joy 

Watching the sailboats go by without a care in the world 
gazing at the stars at night after their lights have unfurled
Viewing earth from a celestial window keeping an eye on 
gaping at tiny...

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Tireless Universe
                    by Odin Roark

Time defies denial,
Knowing well its empirical presence
Will never be of absence.

Dense as...

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The snow has come, 
everything is at a standstill. 
Everything grinds to a halt except, 
for the little children sledging. 
A little snow and the schools shut, 
The nurseries close down, nowhere 
to send the...

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