Spring Lullaby Poems

It is 2 AM by the room clock,
Body, helpless, detached; done
Brain, still active. Heart wanting
the sweet melody of music. Alas,
the speaker needs the electric
embrace of...

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Children's Poems II - Lullabies

These are poems for children and poems about children and their mothers, fathers, grandmother, grandfathers and extended families. 



Sappho's Lullaby
by Michael...

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Blessing for you in the spring,
Deep dreams rising in the morning sun.
When blue birds spun their
wings and sing, 
Wishing your whole beings, a a joyful...

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sleep gentle earth, sleep, 
brush the lips of winter oh my gentle one,
frozen though you lie, enmeshed in dreams, 
rocked by snow slayed lullabies.

sleep gentle...

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She dresses perfectly with prominent spikes in her hair, 
long and flowing brown violet braids, 
which make her face exotic and relaxed..
she wears several precious...

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The night is cold 
Its calmness is bold
Spring doth fold 
In its manifold
My-my-my baby's not old

Your tender smiles
Make my moonlight shines
Your pretty eyes
Make my morning...

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These are lullabies I have written as poems. 

Midnight Lullaby
by Michael R. Burch

I.
A measureless rhythm rules the night—
few have heard it,
but I have shared it,
and...

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Love is like the lavender; 
but friendship is like the oak tree.
The oak is huge when the lavender blooms, But which will bloom most constantly?

The...

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A New Life
When a baby is born, it's like a fresh spring day
Being a healthy one is what all parents pray 
The pain and struggle...

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The Gift That I Give You                   ...

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peepers chirping
outside my bedroom window --
a spring lullaby

5/3/21
For Brian's All Yours Contest (May 5)...

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Final Lullaby
by Michael R. Burch

for my mother, Christine Ena Burch

Sleep peacefully—for now your suffering’s over.

Sleep peacefully—immune to all distress,
like pebbles unaware of raging waves.

Sleep peacefully—like...

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Sappho's Lullaby
by Michael R. Burch

for Jeremy

Hushed yet melodic, the hills and the valleys
sleep unaware of the nightingale's call
while the dew-laden lilies lie
listening, 
glistening...
this is their...

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The air I inhale is for my lullaby tale...
for my baby birdling, can a melody I sing?
her nest I swing, but dreams, how to bring?...

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The kiss

her lips had kissed many a man a butterfly
Fragrant and vivid like a spring day in May 
Yet not to the point of pollination.
...

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