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Poems About Children IiiPoems 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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on the far side, adventure, child, childhood, children, dad, father son,
Form:
Rhyme
Home Sweet Hell"That also has a steep drop off the far side of Home Sweet Hell" said my soulless guide as he pointed in the direction of the nearby screams.
I could see what resembled silhouettes or...
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Categories:
on the far side, anxiety, death, future, life, scary,
Form:
Free verse
Landsbyen -Into the North- An Epic Poem 39"The one thing that eludes me is if the throne is the one in the Council Chamber there are no windows for which the sun to shine through.”
“I agree with...
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Categories:
on the far side, christmas, fairy,
Form:
Epic
Out For a SpinI take a four-fold spin
through Bill Plotkin's wheel
of bilateral identities,
iconic developmental faces,
ironic personalities.
FIRST comes Eastern-born
dawn of human infancy,
Innocent Sage infants
so WiseElder
in our LeftBrain emergent
wrinkling unfolding
sacred RightBrain ways.
Searching for care giving eyes
to be sure we...
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on the far side, gender, health, humor, integrity, nature, peace, wisdom,
Form:
Political Verse
Song From Beyond the Stars: New Adventure[ ... story with context, a plausible universe with top and bottom
a coat of cosmos covering
over a subterranean protoverse of potential fields
a quantum cellar creating
the very big...
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on the far side, adventure, destiny, future, imagination, journey, planet, science
Form:
Verse
Where Gladiators FoughtPart I
Where gladiators fought for life,
we meet to fight for love
The constellations in the Roman night sky,
celestial spectators, bathe the Colosseum
in the white blood of light
The night is throbbing with the heat of our battle,
our...
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Categories:
on the far side, passion, places,
Form:
Epic
Landsbyen -Into the North- An Epic Poem 18
When he reached the courtyard DynDoeth stepped from the shadows and greeted him. One by one each of the Elders also stepped forward. Erlenkönig greeted each in turn. There were only...
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on the far side, christmas, fairy,
Form:
Epic
Light On the Devil's Chord - Day 30A whirl, a gust, and a thunderous boom commenced,
Heartened by the latter soreness of silent night,
Shackled through the chill blows above,
A tempest, a storm,
Threshing the world,
Shaking the Prison of Plot,
The waters of the Holy Spirit...
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on the far side, art, destiny, endurance, gospel, inspiration, truth, wisdom,
Form:
Epic
Song From Beyond the Stars Part 2 Earthside Gatheringfrom the extremely large to the very small, rocks have been game changers
planet-sized melters, moon-makers
asteroids with cataclysmic impact, dinosaur terminators
again life's prospects pivoting
this time, on tiny stable...
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on the far side, adventure, destiny, humanity, science fiction,
Form:
Verse
Shoulds and ShouldersI had a long argument today...
Whilst sitting by the
surcharging charging airport port,
shouldertoshoulder with this pastor.
Delayed flight and low juice
kept us there, squared off;
shoulder to shoulder.
He with his Righteousness,
me with my Right View.
He with all...
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Categories:
on the far side, journey,
Form:
Free verse
Blood On the BibleThe indecision builds
while staring into the velvet covered bible
and knowing that you have already
read more than was necessary.
Yet you stand and read on and on
hoping that one small word
will shine into the dark crevices
separating...
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on the far side, uplifting, life, prayer, bible, bible, life, me,
Form:
Free verse
Tea and Poetry In the Ides of March - Part TwoBring two poems is what he said.
She chose a Personification, ‘Violin’, (the proud recipient of an International Poetry contest award), and a narrative, ‘The Rise and fall of an Empire.’
***
A Raven greets her.
She...
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Categories:
on the far side, satire,
Form:
Free verse
Sufficient SelfAs a youngster he had dreamt of moving to a potato farm in Ireland
To escape from the brown rot of German post-world war II contamination
Just another plot on the map to sufficient existence and to...
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Categories:
on the far side, dark,
Form:
Free verse
The Village On the Water VShowering white light illuminates
Bright-Moon Bay;
In the overlooking Moon-Inviting Pavilion,
Li Bai had raised his twinkling, rich amber
Coloured wineglass
To invite the same reticent Moon. ...
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Categories:
on the far side, appreciation, beauty, places,
Form:
Free verse
Beannchor Looks On, Fabulous Pivoting Placemolten times, volcanising immensity, vast plateau
belly-belching landform
oceans, shallow seas and lakes swell up and down
land-bridging, submerging
any one place moving astride, stutter-shifting
continental drifting world
climate...
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on the far side, future, history, ireland, places, sea, society,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Muddy ShoesI'm planting trees today.
Cherry trees in front,
Peter on the street,
Paul in the middle,
with Mary closest in toward the house,
all on the far side of our gravel drive.
On the same southern side,
along my neighbor's new above...
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Categories:
on the far side, blessing, earth, family, gospel, health, philosophy, political,
Form:
Prose Poetry
New Boy MaturesEleven years later and the young boy from the corner,
kept up with his scouting and a leader he’d become,
Two people were so proud of every one of his achievements,
The leader who first met him, And...
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Categories:
on the far side, friend, memory,
Form:
Rhyme
The Peg-Legged Patriot, Part IJeremiah Brown limped a lot
ever since the age of five,
When a horse trampled his left shin,
The boy was given up to die.
But her pulled through amazingly,
Thought the leg had met the saw,
So he was...
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on the far side, adventure, america, appreciation, courage, freedom, war,
Form:
Narrative
To Win By Losing, Or the Battle of Guilford Courthouse, Part IGeneral Cornwallis of Great Britain
faced a problem that he couldn’t resolve,
he’d won at Camden, they’d captured Charlestown,
but still the southern colonies wouldn’t fall.
Instead he faced a string of reverses,
lost at King’s Mountain and then at...
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on the far side, america, conflict, courage, freedom, history, patriotic, war,
Form:
Epic
Children's Poems XChildren'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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on the far side, baseball, child, childhood, children, family, father,
Form:
Rhyme
Don'T Go Near the RiverDon’t go near the river a tree has fallen down
The flow is blocked and it caused a dam if you fall in you could drown
But to us children this an invitation was
A big happening in...
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on the far side, adventure, childhood, friendship, funny, me, tree, home,
Form:
Narrative
To You, Tainan-Iithe Yuguang Island is quiet and peaceful
the sunset tower made from the washed up woodwork and string
along the coast of Tainan elicits a sense of awe and beauty
the colorful sky, the waves on...
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Categories:
on the far side, city, culture,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Bad Craziness Rising> Walking into that bar
>
> That nefarious den of
> iniquity and evilness
>
> Twenty drinks too sober
> The scent of bad craziness
>
> Hung in the air
> Like an over ripe mango
> Desperately seeking to have
> sex
>...
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on the far side, addiction, allegory, anxiety, crazy, destiny, drink, symbolism,
Form:
Free verse
The Playground BenchLittle Lilly wanted to go, to the playground, to have some fun the other day.
And all the other Trolls wanted to tag along, for it looked like fun, they said.
So we went at dusk, for...
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Categories:
on the far side, adventure, fantasy, funny, humorous, imagination, uplifting,
Form:
Light Verse
study periodstudy period
It’s December and my roommates and I are deeply into Christmas. We’ve got a little 3ft tall Christmas tree with about fifty-thousand little multicolor LED lights on it (LEDs because we ARE saving the...
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Categories:
on the far side, christmas, friendship, holiday, humor, music, school, student,
Form:
Free verse