Love Memory Poems

We thought life would have been
so simple: flowers and hugs,
sentimental nights and songs;
then, reality came with its pain...
we were no longer that invincible,
rather two people...

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A clear-beaded mousie
with a pointy black nose,
twitchable beaded tail,
and ruffly yellow clothes.

The tail can tilt her head--
she nods without a squeak!
Quiet little church mouse,
I bought...

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To all who are among us
I bid you all farewell
as the lid press down the eye
another story tell.

Drift me to a meadow
at peace the ever...

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Marvelling in the pink afternoon, pretending
to crochet a drawstring. I’ve done it before,
at least once before, followed the pattern. Closed
the purse. I can’t nearly begin
to...

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Vexed Nights 

Trapped in my own delusion,
Engulfing self induced contusions,
I imprudently cause self confusion,

Distance seems cruel to me
So I detach from what used to be,
Emotionally,
Physically,
Then...

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Intriguing hollow log
Boyhood, sunshine, smiling
Slippery, slimy frog

Summer days whiling
On undulating grass -
Beauty so beguiling

Cloudy memories, alas,
You, outshining fog -
My bonnie lass...

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"The pure heart is a spotless mirror in which 
images of infinite beauty are reflected"


In splendorous devout space of my pristine heart, 
shimmering in the...

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Few sing of raven’s ebony,
Fewer still of its shining plume,
The glory of her black tresses
Has for long glistened my life’s gloom.

Now that the dawn has...

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These are poems about sinking, poems about drowning, poems about loss, and poems about new discoveries we sometimes make while feeling lost...



Sinking
by Michael R. Burch

for...

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Blue
twinges
of lament
cast gaunt shadow
o’er my dreadful  pang
as a grim mist segued
into dark claustrophobic
cantons where rabid zeal of hearts
once smouldered from magma’s deep red vein
Yet...

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Chilling remains haunt
On these cold April evenings 
I wish I'd forget

See the stars dancing
Flying among them are dreams
So out of reach now 

You inspired hope...

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Memories mounting 
Losing sight losing faith
Positive heartbreak 
...

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Beneath the starry vault of memory, your voice lays down
Like a blanket of marble weathered by long-forgotten deities.
I've allowed my hopes to be gently polished
By...

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Time has wrinkled our weeping faces,
never withered any of the embraces;
oh, how delightful is to walk again 
down the path of youth and not fear
whatever...

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Big hands of this man 
Who I remember as a child? 
Growing up in and at a time, 
When real men were fathers then. 
Supporting...

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