Long Trillium Poems

Snapshots
by Michael R. Burch

Here I scrawl extravagant rainbows.
And there you go, skipping your way to school.
And here we are, drifting apart
like untethered balloons.

Here I am, creating "art,"
chanting in shadows,
pale as the crinoline moon,
ignoring your face.

There...

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Sonnets XLII-LI

Distances
by Michael R. Burch

Moonbeams on water?
the reflected light
of a halcyon star
now drowning in night...
So your memories are.

Footprints on beaches
now flooding with water;
the small, broken ribcage
of some primitive slaughter...
So near, yet so far.



A Surfeit of...

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Starlight and Moonlight II

These are poems about starlight and moonlight, moons and stars, dreams and visions, illuminations and intimations …




Deliver Us...
by Michael R. Burch 

for my mother, Christine Ena Burch

The night is dark and scary—
under...

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LOVE POEMS IV by Michael R. Burch

These are love poems by Michael R. Burch: original poems and translations about love, passion, desire, lust, sex, dating, romance, relationships and marriage. 



She Was Very Strange, and Beautiful
by...

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Spring Flowers 


Another day she floated by so silently and poetically so graciously
Brightened each day quite magnificently as she held blossoming Begonia's
Captivated and enthralled by what nature smelled like sweet carnations
Daringly she held the intoxicating...

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The Wild One


I watched, as in a dream mist….

….after a day of rain, fog rolling in off the rocks of Lake Superior

Three large deer, nibbling moist leaves from sapling trees, unconcerned with my presence, 
only...

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It`s summer and it`s pleasing
           in 12 shades of green.
           I think i`ll go fishing
...

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Nicky, the neighbor’s dog, drags a road kill home.
A beautiful pelt like those fox shoulder garments women wore in the
      forties.
But the head is crushed beyond recognition—maybe it’s a fox and that’s 	
      why Nicky, a canine,...

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Ambitious Amaryllis arrive soon,
Bloodroots  beauty appears to bloom.
Colourful Camellias  grow in shade,
Daffodils  dance in garden parade.

English-daisies  pretend as innocent,
Freesia  flowers friendly and fragrant.
Gleeful is the glamorous Geranium,
Hyacinths  cling in...

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Ontario    in Iroquois is-
Kanadario         meaning sparkling water

the British     claimed the land
under the approval of the Queen
148 years ago

well  ...

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Let us compose  a sonata that captures the essence of spring's repose.
With each note and chord, let nature's beauty unfold,
As we embark on a musical journey, untold.

In the graceful dance of a short-lived lily...

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"I Wandered Lonely As A Cloud" by William Wordsworth 



I wandered lonely as a geek
Through silent woods and rustling leaves
Down the hill to the flowing creek 
Away from life's stress causing heaves
There I saw a...

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Have you been
Hiking the  Quiraing trail on the isle of Skye?
watching golden eagles as they fly by?
Have you been
Hiking through fields of paintbrush on Mount Hood?
From Trillium Lake to Timberline, if you haven't you...

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Spring flowers





Artemisia bear the colourful foliage
Bluebells carpet a magical sight
Coreopsis and cherries blossom
Daffodils are seen in jovial mood
Eranthis buds as the snow melts,
Forsythia screams it's spring time,
Grape hyacinths trumpet arrival 
Hellebore shows surprising resilience,
Irises have...

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I wandered lone as I did seek
Through silent woods and rustling leaves
Down the hill to the flowing creek 
Away from life's stress causing heaves
There I saw a white lovely swan
By magic there appeared a fawn


As...

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Winter wrinkles, revealing signs of age,
but beneath banks of snow, it's tough to gauge.
Although spring showers are mainly sprinkles
revealing signs of age, Winter wrinkles.

Robin red-breasts arrive, summoned by Spring,
to celebrate the warmth, She's sure to...

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A meandering stretch of twenty miles
from hip Cross Village to Harbor Springs,
through hairpin turns and roller coaster dips,
we, the lovers of the lovely
travel through Michigan’s Tunnel of Trees.

Up ahead a windward wall gives way to...

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Spring is my favorite time of the year!
After suffering Winter's doldrums, 
I relish the slightest sign of an early spring.
The honking babble of the wild geese returning
or the dripping drops of icicles melting,
fill me with...

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There was always a surfeit of light in your presence.
You stood distinctly apart, not of the humdrum world—
a chariot of gold in a procession of plywood.

We were all pioneers of the modern expedient race,
raising the...

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Oh sweet Trillium Grandiflorum 
Spring's most majestic ephemeral blooms 
I wait all Winter for the joy you bring 
Anticipating the moment I see you in Spring 
Emerging from last Autumn's fallen leaves 
You spread out...

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Bluebells are a ringin' and springin' up like kites.
Thyme is rustling along, glimpsing at dazzling sights.

Fox tails are a wagin' in the breeze, zig-zagin',
strutting their charisma, to be petted beggin'.

Roses are perfuming, famous scent resuming,
competing...

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Three delicate white petals plus three green leaves
describes Ontario's official flower.
Songbirds migrate back to sing in early spring, 
and depending on the rain the ground receives;
trillium carpet the scene with white blossoms.
When icicles no longer...

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