Long Repealed Poems

'Twas the night of that particular evening whose noon-tide bade wondrous twilights and whose moon suffused in its consummated prophecy. Men perched themselves around balefully dire fires and professed eerie tales to themselves in unsettling...

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Poems for Poets X
Poems about Poets X



Sinking
by Michael R. Burch

for Virginia Woolf

Weigh me down with stones ...
   fill all the pockets of my gown ...
      I’m going down,
...

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Having and holding onto a Godly nuclear family today is becoming increasingly difficult to do so! If you can home school your children. Find a good Christ-centered Christian school either on-line or in person. What...

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HAVE YOU READ PART ONE YET? IT MAY MAKE SLIGHTLY MORE SENSE IF YOU HAVE {although I'm not giving guarantees.}

 I cannot hold thee anymore
Think I'm dyin' and much more
I try slammin' shut the door

Why...

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This is my search for the proper mentality
Ive realized I need to change myself drastically,
And Radically
I need to Change my whole inner Anatomy
On The search for a cure to my insanity
I just dont want to...

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Even before the arrival of the first snows, so brilliantly candid, 
we climbed mounts less dangerous than the Alps's;
and we proudly chalked it up to our experience.
Now the snowy cliffs with bouffant boulders,
have lost their...

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He entered the dark house 
	through the unlocked kitchen door, 
	his house until the separation,
	found his way 
	down the dark hallway 
	to the bedroom,  
	hid in the closet, 
	the door slightly open to 
	a...

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The last of me is drowning deep in agony 
A packaged denied arrest paints a felony 
Isn't it crazily funny?
We live together in harmony 

Whereas urgent attention couldn't rescue the saga
From this skillful kneel aga
Whose...

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There was no alcoholics in my family,
but there was some heavy drinking on weekends.
Personally, I kicked the habit at a very young age.
Prohibition was repealed, but not in our home county.
I was to learn later...

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The Sad And Tragic Death Of Emily Hope

That night flew roaring Wind- a mighty gale
over hill and dale through windows left up
Had I then known its fruits, I'd have turned pale
for its destruction was a...

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It's "The Children's Hour," as Franklin Delano
dubbed it, proffering that famous profile, chin high,
cigarette holder clinched in good dental symmetry,
all the while flashing that celebrated smile.  He'd "Walk 
a Mile for a Camel," (or...

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Lost Battles

Rubies and blue sapphires all winking in the sun
as they topple down the stream
today the bloodshed’s done.
Lo the fallen kingdom, the people all enslaved
wickedness upon them, not one will be saved.

Royal purple satin, overlaid...

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Another puppet government,
strings attached gone
Proxy power given to the corrupt —
a foreign gameplan
played wrong

The latest Queen gambit
was an Old World maneuver, with 
a neo-Roman tale spin

Place scepter power in a dummy hand;
textbook Machiavellian,
		marionette Afghan

Next to...

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When was that golden age for which you yearn?
A perfect Eden? where we’d yet to learn 
To conquer and to dominate the land
And Mother Nature held the upper hand
Did Earth confer a blessing or disdain?
When...

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In the wake of the atmospheric river's retreat,
A world clothed in an unusual pale orange hue,
Unsettled I felt, discomfort laced within my heart's beat,
As the sky darkened, the air grew stagnant, still and askew.

Two owls...

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When It Really Is the Teacher’s Fault

By Elton Camp

This is the excuse that we sometimes see
“I did that bad cause teacher don’t like me.”
It is far too easy to attempt to shift the blame
And the...

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West on wing street creeping near miseries domain whistling on whiskys bliss . Tripping on miseries mess , yet whisky's kick got me tripping on miseries mess for a bet I forget . Whiskys bliss...

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Eighty Thousand Dollar Post

A former headmaster at a way preppy school
Was fired for age and he thought it cruel
So he sued and they settled
Said we’re sorry we meddled
Keep quiet about it the rule

No discloser they...

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The drafting on of renaissance curtail
earmarks of goodly fortune, so avail
the breeding of contentment, this rest's hail
imbibes my soul's delivery with assail!

To caulk the artworks beauty, cover stale
in moment's grand assumption, empty, fail!
Consign my emptiness,...

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All is quiet, all is still.
All is tranquil amid the chill.
It's late December, the moon is high,
Shining brightly against the sky.

The snow is sparkling in the street,
Like diamonds scattered beneath my feet,
Reflecting the light from...

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I know I should be happy,
but I am sad.
I should be proud,
but I am ashamed. 

I went to see everyone,
I hold dear,
and was afraid to talk.
Trying to get close,
but felt like repealed back.

That circle I...

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For a few years
my long departed granny
had one oft repealed saying.

I would take her out to do some grocery shopping
on the way there she would say
in a trembling unsure tones:
"Are we doing the right thing?"

'Are...

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Defiance

Chained, detained like a primitive animal caged, enraged. 
Jabbed, stabbed with finely sharpened venomous barbs, scarred.
Bled, fed nothing but hatred seasoned with dull puns, shunned. 
Blackened, beaten as ear-piercing cacophonous screams teem.
Laughing, spitting blood; my...

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Kavanaugh grew up in a cave
Never learned how a judge should behave
This caveman likes beer
And ladies must fear 
Becoming this drunkard’s sex slave

Despite his bad manners revealed
Kavanaugh might not be repealed
He’s t-rump’s first choice
To kill...

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The luminous celestial body
Whisks resplendently through the sky
It’s capture is certain to elude me
Still, I extend my hands and try

Remnants ensuing a springtime shower
A concoction I wish to seize
I chase the tropospheres prismatic band
Scoffing the...

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