Long Xxiii Poems

Silent, alone, with no mates at all
We went on there one forth the other back,
Like the minor friars a narrow way crawl.

Of the Aesop’s tale was now on the track
My thought after the previous seen...

Read More

I stopped there, and saw two showing high rate
Of their will, on their face, to join with me;
But were hampered by narrow street and weight.

When reached us, with their eyes awry to see
Then looked at...

Read More

Unquotabe quotes: Dancers - XXIII

Dance like Cassius Clay, Sting like Muhammad Ali.
The dancing Dervish’s ethereal trip makes the Sufi’s Qawwali breathlessness sound like the radio-astral waves dashing on the beaches of their consciousness.
The only unlicensed...

Read More

We found love in a hopeless place. Common sentence used by people to 
describe what they so apparently believed to have felt. Can you feel something 
you don't know? Could you tell me what that...

Read More

These are my early poems, or juvenilia...

alien
by michael r. burch

there are mornings in england
when, riddled with light,
the Blueberries gleam at us—
plump, sweet and fragrant.

but i am so small ...
what do i know
of the ways of...

Read More

Distilled Jamaican Anthem Part 2

Teach Us True Respect For All
for our workers are all important, our farmers, our artisans
our women at the stove, our women at the mill, our women
who birthed us, our teachers, lawyers,...

Read More

your lord is your shepherd (baaaaa)
you shall not want (he tells you what to do & you do it)
he lies you down in green pastures (sloppy lawn sex & bestiality)
he leads you alongside the water...

Read More

IF ever I had a country : XXIII-XXIV

                           ...

Read More

IF YOU PULL A LONG FACE : Part XXIII

IF you pull a long-pained face
After tumbling down the Stairway
Do not the blame put on loose shoe-lace
The fault, pained-poet, may lie in gut-loose kidney

Now if you still...

Read More

Previous winners were Elie Wiesel,
Mother Teresa, Bob Hope,
Norman Rockwell, Rosa Parks,
Walt Disney and a Pope*…

B.B.King and Yo Yo Ma,
Dylan and Pearl Bailey,
Frank Sinatra, E.B. White,
Tom Hanks and Alvin Ailey…

Meryl Streep and I.M. Pei,
Spielberg and De...

Read More

When I look back, feel you deserve 'Thank you'.
not that you've helped me a lot; fact is you
made me realize how to think anew;
Once thought my world is spinning around you.

Convinced without you I've no...

Read More

L,

Boom, boom, boom
a dozen pressed upon a dozen
drawn, I am 
to the sound 
etched 
and sculpted 

not wanting to pass
the heart and her songs 
carried towards me
like crosses of past
naming names
but the rest are all...

Read More

god is 
what I don't know
high Gothic arches pierce the sky
to commemorate a body 
washed ashore on the bank of the Rhine
that inspired a wave of pogroms in 1287
a body, that became a saint
a body,...

Read More

I could see fear come alive in her eyes,
she knew I could bring about her demise;
We stared and then raised a mutual flag 
just like an insidious game of tag;

Locked gaze and two pair of...

Read More

knowledge is not a cubicle;
ignorance's hideout, flapdoodle,
corrugated roof of worn wits
damp drips, drizzles illusion spits

neither is knowledge a haven;
hoisted hell, callous clips cloven
la-de-da lake retention dug,
choked to brim by cursed current- lust

nosy knowledge is not...

Read More