Long Outshining Poems

So, love is good for you?
Not too traumatic?

In a foreplay
Win-Win kind of way,
yes.

Now what?

Maybe some music and stretching?

How about another dance?

Sacred MotherEarth,
you wear me out.

I thought that was your idea.

Well, yes,
now that you are so...

Read More

Pointed Art
Michael R. Burch

The point of art is that
there is no point.
A grinning, quick-dissolving cat
from Cheshire
must have told you that.

The point of art is this—
the hiss
of Cupid’s bright bolt, should it miss,
is bliss
compared to Truth’s...

Read More

Heartfelt light… falls gentle on my dew drenched silence,
When moon is fading beneath the silent blessings,
Raining through the moments, healing with soft expressions
Moments alive with the flames of joy kindled to birth,
Praying into the depths...

Read More

Oh now I sit in my chamber,
surrounded by the four white walls,
and a painting of Athena,
and it is midnight, a silvery moon not in sight.
I can hear the thumping of my own heart,
hearing it skip...

Read More

One does not stamp out radicalism
any more than one outspends capitalism
or fights successfully against militarism
or overpowers totalitarianism.

We might fade out radicalism,
co-invest capital in cooperative objectives for health,
discern together removing threats of mutually assured violence
and democratize...

Read More

Lady love, have you now a moment, rare?
I'll turn the heat you spawn to steam.
If you have a minute or two to spare,
I'll relate to you, my dream. 

I laid last night in still repose,
thinking of your lovely...

Read More

“dashing” when he was younger,
with muscles ripped & a razor sharp intellect,
a sense of humor that could make the room roar &
the demeanor of a man on the way to certain
success,
whatever path he took.

and some...

Read More

Countless instances submitting poems
finds me racking
quite a hefty collection of rejections,
the responses lacking
disappointing voluminous vicious
venomous vitriolic backing
quite the contrary,
the prefabricated responses

unsuccessful at hijacking
my "FAKE" toothy gumption
(since I wear dentures) lip smacking
bite size packing
not exceptionally appetizing,
but...

Read More

The glitter of everlasting Adamantine the tower of sunlight does 
not exceed its grandeur of brilliance. 

One of a variety immovable monument of stones thus stands its 
ability radiating from a white throne within the...

Read More

said to debut .
The American All-Pro Division Champion
to bring both Title and Nine contenders to
The  World Of Wrestling league.
He will defend against "Company Prize"
and "Finger Boa" three way dance with specail guest
commentator the Swain...

Read More

The Dragon Jar

What better place for fearsome beasts of fire
than airless thickets choked in green excesses
where weary soldiers stumble and aspire
for nothing more than living through the year?

Vast plantation harvests have all ended
death comes calling...

Read More

A tender smile, a fleeting glance,
Eyes that meet to touch the soul,
A beating heart, a breathless breath,
A deepened sense of something whole.

(A tender smile, a fleeting glance),
A need to please and give of self,
(Missed beats...

Read More

I am, that which I am
No matter circumstances
Circumstances don't define me
For I am that I am
 
I am consciousness
The beacon of light
Clothed in a vessel
call body moving
Taking me wherever

I am the living truth
In disguise
I embody...

Read More

When the night has come it is a time to linger
Because of a curse touching a human is a never
I am binded in this forest I know so well
A place where many spirits of different...

Read More

 Half my soul shadows his reflection

leaving me with silent voices and vacant thoughts

But the other half , the other half lies hidden .Hidden and lost !

Lost in days of sending postcards,in months of...

Read More

We shared the same DNA running in our blood 
and embraced with love was our deep bond.
It was always completely understood with faith
that we shared a divine friendship so beautiful. 
She was blonde, me brunette,...

Read More

On the 9th day of October, I paused to think
Like a flashback in a play,
Browsing through all my days
Remembering how and when you came into it

Alas, I smiled unconsciously
But yes, indeed happily
Remembering that tomorrow is...

Read More

Listening to songs, through the ages of rock, 
Some bands owned a gold timbred vocal stamp.
Like the new noise in ‘68, Led Zep’s power frontman, 
The enigmatic absolute tenor, Robert Plant.

The original baritone rocker, Jim...

Read More

Cities are the pride of nations,
Symbols of man’s innovations.
Each one possesses unique traits,
That feeds its pride and makes it great.

The City of God has no peer,
It exists in a unique sphere.
No human hands designed its...

Read More

“Ah!  Good Morning, Glad to see YOU :  Happy Valentine’s Day
  I’m off to find my Heartbeats LOVE : will YOU guide me on the way?
  I’ve ne’er been down the...

Read More

So Edward Kamanzola was born on the Christmas Day
The year 1943 and this was declared a rare luck; 
And fortune was expected to trail his life all the way
To his doubtless toothless longevity of an...

Read More

Watching & waiting while in hiding
and faking
Views for the taking but unaware
what is waiting
Freezing & shaking but is it fear or
its weather?
Snapshots for the taking posing for 
them cuz it's clever

Good best & better to...

Read More

 “Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. It will not lead you astray.” Rumi

Life can be an incomplete glossary,
speech a haunting ghost,
in search of a perspicuous poem...

Read More

The billboard proclaimed the welcome news
Rides, games, and fun for all!

Children gleefully running past
Clutching tickets and prizes in tiny hands
Or munching on corndogs and cotton candy
From the eager vendors along the midway

Tenders hawk their games...

Read More

Yours..is the most beautiful smile,
the source of all my inspirations;
that star never fading, always outshining others...


And from it joy is emanated;
with the speed of a shooting star,
to earth it falls, for me to catch it...

Read More