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Lysander Poems

Something for Somebody

...My midsummer night’s fantasy?
Lysander’s lady, Hermia. Now there’s a rare bird.
I picture her barefoot in the mist-veiled night
Wearing just a fairy garland and a gauzy flowing cloak. 
She’s a te...

Categories: lysander, allegory, beauty, fairy,
Form: Blank verse

Their Queen Pheromones

...
"Their Queen Pheromones"

Nectar 
attracts 

foraging 
honey bees
with components 
of their 
Queen Pheromones

the butterflies beckon
their inner wasps
to sup on cl...

Categories: lysander, life, love, muse, passion,
Form: Narrative

Cross Road

...Crossroad

It's funny how this has turned out.
I use to get flustered when you're around. 
Frantic beating of my heart.
Crazy change of my mood.
Now I realise that as much as I love you, I got ...

Categories: lysander, absence, break up,
Form: Free verse

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

Juvenilia: Early Poems X

...Juvenilia: Early Poems X

These are early poems written in my teens and twenties.

Regret
by Michael R. Burch

Regret,
a bitter
ache to bear...

once starlight
languished
in your hair......

Categories: lysander, age, child, children, dream,
Form: Rhyme

Shrouded In a Thick Mist By Puck

...
Hermia and Helena are ready to fight each other.
The same can be said for Demetrius and Lysander.
To keep this party of four from throwing a fist,
I will cover them all with a thick morn...

Categories: lysander, fairy, fantasy, literature,
Form: Light Verse

Puck's Mistake

...
Puck, being a dummy is something you can't deny.
You took that flower's nectar, and put it on the wrong guy.
Lysander was intended to be the lover of Hermia.
Now, he has fallen in love w...

Categories: lysander, confusion, literature,
Form: Rhyme

Hermia's Dilemma

...
Lysander, my father's decision does not favor us.
By law, he wants me to marry Demetrius.
If I do not marry him, it's either death or chastity.
Lysander, I love you.  You're the only one...

Categories: lysander, literature, love,
Form: Rhyme

Love-In-Idleness

...Smiling, it squirts its juices, 
delighting in matchmaking,
just like Cupid, whose misaimed arrow, 
it recalls, once struck it.

Lucentio and Bianca:
a happy match;
they owe much to it, it knows.
Lys...

Categories: lysander, fantasy,
Form: Free verse

Boringgggg

...You don't get any footnotes.
But hey, there's no bullshitting around,
when I say I'm sitting calmly in a lull,
and that even peace comes with knowledge
of future storms and lost hope in ressurect...

Categories: lysander, on writing and words,
Form: Free verse