Merely Poems - Poems about Merely

...Mother’s Day-Three Years Later I may speak to you as a still portrait on the wall no wailing ghosts don’t present only those of memories especially clasping the cross between my fing......Read the rest...

...Green Trees Don’t Make It Everyday I look out and see The ugly green trees Standing guard in front of my house. And I think to myself Who owns the trees? And what do they think of us?......Read the rest...

...Beneath the moon's veil, where stars whisper at the universe's edge, Thoughts sway in the echoes of riddles uncomprehended. Here, the sacred message from a journey with the hallucinogen's verse Te......Read the rest...

...Beneath the moon's veil, where stars whisper at the universe's edge, Thoughts sway in the echoes of riddles uncomprehended. Here, the sacred message from a journey with the hallucinogen's verse Te......Read the rest...

...start writing-she said as if she knew about the contents of her head shave off pieces of stars motorway of answers ..... .. .......Read the rest...

...~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ They gathered outside my house, People, walking around, brainwashed zombies, Mindless drones, programmed by societal norms, Floating through life with v......Read the rest...

...Q: Does the single act of being baptized save people without first being saved? A: Being baptized is a work of faith and public testimony of our Christian faith, but it is not salvation. ......Read the rest...

...History awaits for it's train to the past. The future awaits for it's train to the present. History blows a kiss of comforting memories. You linger on to History, Yet History is quick to board hi......Read the rest...

...Fukuda Chiyo-ni Haiku Fukuda Chiyo-ni (1703-1775) was a celebrated Japanese poet and painter of the Edo period, also known as Kaga no Chiyo. Because morning glories held my well-bucket hostage......Read the rest...

...~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Then… …the sparks in your eyes were a thousand fireflies, diamonds in pools of blue. …the laughter we shared rang joyous to m......Read the rest...

...Love is all that remains within me, A lonely torch burning in the crypt of oblivion, A heart mocking the times, a soul at war with silences, Lost in a canvas of shattered illusions, Poor love, yo......Read the rest...

...Birthday Poem to Myself by Michael R. Burch LORD, be no longer this Distant Presence, Star-Afar, Righteous-Anonymous, but come! Come live among us; come dwell again, happy child among men— m......Read the rest...

... Written: April 28, 2024, For Constance la France Contest "One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life. The word is love. Sophocles, Greek Poet ......Read the rest...

... Line of inquiry: “We have been here a thousand times before Memory erased, each time we begin anew Of hands held tenderly, we’ve lost the score Each embrace virgin like fresh morning dew ......Read the rest...

...It wasn't all that long ago when covid choked the world with it's grasp. People became anxious, some belligerent, when asked to merely mask. While others stock piled toilet paper to wipe their s......Read the rest...