Long Sea star Poems

These are my early poems, or juvenilia.

Stars
by Michael R. Burch, age 22

Though night has come,
I'm not alone,
for stars appear
—fierce, faint and far—
to dance until they disappear.

They reappear
as clouds roll by
in stormy billows
past bent willows;
sometimes they...

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GREETINGS TO THE LODESTAR

Vain of metal ore that smiled 
It is by you am steered  
    Guiding my principle in direction 
    You shine like magnetized
  ...

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At first there was nothing in the very distant past,
Then bang! There was everything, a universe so vast;
All splendid and magnificent,  terrifying and mundane.
But before we knew all this, before we could explain,

About giant,...

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The chilly North Pacific:
we build a fire for the moths,
a lamplight. Their wings, angry
with flames. Sky: dim and small.

In your standing stillness, you are
an old clock
that has run out of chimes.
The small hours of the...

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I walk along the margins, of the shoreline of the sea,
              gathering abandoned shells, in search of a sea star;
  ...

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Environmental sumptuous symmetry uniquely resplendent,
 kaleidoscopic kindling of the  visual nirvana,
spiral rapture enshrouded stimulant, 
sapphire dawn first light purr nectareous,
a mint ice tinged  mystic morning  mantra,
that pearl stud morph to fortify a...

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Far way from the starry night , where the sea is so deep.

Sailing away into the foolish moments of my thoughts.

I remember the missing light of the autumn sunset.

The thought goes on the waves of...

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Upon the battered shore of life
                  As waves crest and descend
       ...

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Soft And Warm Like The Quiet Storm
I Let Myself Go
I Let Myself Go
With Nothing To Hold On To
Not Even Gravity
I Let Myself Go
And Fall Deep Into A Fantasy
I Close My Eyes
Live In My Sleep
This Feeling...

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We huddle over the mass of our treasures
with stinging skin and salt ringed hair
while holding a washed blue sea star shining
we whisper with bittering breath on the tide
The waves peel thus and entice us to...

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Day has sunk and the old fisherman, like a well-trained athlete, rows his rugged boat.
Defying starry night's turbulent waves,
It cruises seaward, smooth and swift, like an agile proud fish.

Then, into his net a shooting star...

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Letting the wind flow from her hands for a chime

The breeze soothes calloused palms in the storm

Reaches out for seagull’s wings and mellow prayer

Weaves its flight into solace at this moment in time


Moving the sand...

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adorning apricot
  stardust silently
    enveloped
     turbulent waves, 
gingerly dappling 
   each ingrained
      bit of sea glass 
whence the tides
 ...

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Long wisps of fog rise
into thin and vanishing clouds;
from the East an aromatic wind
scatters the flattened and broken-shells-covered-sand
as dampness enters the bones and makes these feet sweat,
still my deep footprints are seen below the boardwalk...

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Hardened sea star hopes
cast from blackened, soundless depths
are quickly discovered by treasure seekers
and secured in pockets of wool
Fossiled crab claw rage
bent from the cask of revenge
slowly dissolves into shells, into sand
to be sifted and carted...

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oh i wish upon a star and i wonder were u are oh when your out at sea i wish you were here
with me even though you live far away i think about you every...

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A winged mermaid blossoms, 
awash with marine snow ~
Poseidon's ocean-pearl,
breathing jasmine sirens
as iced eyelashes curl... 

A winged mermaid blossoms,
when fish-angels ache for
arctic apricity,
and glacial nymphs carve a
cruel felicity... 

A winged mermaid blossoms, 
as strawberry conch...

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