Mildewed Poems - Poems about Mildewed

... The sun has long receded from the sky, Pallid gloom invades the wintry air, Morbid silence hangs over him, Memory sleeps like hibernating toads. Trees stand bare with no leaves t......Read the rest...

... That’s how some poets roll the the dice here, don’t you see? I think it makes sense, if your life is all about me, me, me! Old poetry friendships ………like garbage, tossed dowm a mildewed......Read the rest...

... An anti-resolvent-fume- of-infest-chokes-out-integral-yield of humanity. Thick as molasses, blackstrap morass of emnity. Blight is apathy, and apathy is blight. A Void, a claim farmi......Read the rest...

...A waning aura no longer flamed enough to flicker a surrender. Decomposes, decompresses like mummification wrap. An anti-resolvent-fume- of-infest-chokes-out-integral-yield. Thick as molasses, b......Read the rest...

...I envision the low wall, ivy-clad and mildewed a stone relic of some-time' beyond this moment. The garden has not withered wild but has slipped through the years untouched by decay or an ove......Read the rest...

...Ghostly spirits from deadly arsenal spell haunting annihilation With mighty mouse and Hercules height tried to retrieve sanity spread loose; a faded unpleasant memory - even enlisting decades ......Read the rest...

...The holiday cabin smelled of wet pigeons but it was lakeside and cheap. The lake was not popular, too deep and weedy for swimming, too shallow for docking boats, yet it suited our make-do mind......Read the rest...

...The years have not mildewed for my moss is deep and soft, it is a fine as baby hair as thick as an uncut meadow. Somewhere there are lands I have plowed over and over, beneath which are the f......Read the rest...

...POEMS ABOUT POOL SHARKS Shark by Michael R. Burch They are all unknowable, these rough pale men— haunting dim pool rooms like shadows, propped up on bar stools like scarecrows, nodding and......Read the rest...

...We carry small talk above our heads, ceilings drip clouds. Nothing is put away. Coats dangle over chairs in layers. Drugged by spate and mizzle, denim droops, snagged over rummage and the outst......Read the rest...

...FREE VERSE VI Reason Without Rhyme by Michael R. Burch I used to be averse to free verse, but now I admit YOUR rhyming is WORSE! But alas, in the end, it’s all the same: all verse is u......Read the rest...

...He don't live down your way. He dwells in another day he will never let you into. His face is white but not bright - yellow age has mildewed his smile. The house on the hill is not his, b......Read the rest...

...A WANING SUN HAD SET THE SCENE 0N A DYING GRAVEYARD ALL SERENE BUT MOULD AND DECAY HAD HAD ITS WAY IT LIVED AND THRIVED WHEN ALL HAD DIED LIFES A LIFELONG VIRTUAL DREAM ON A UNIVER......Read the rest...

...She pulls the past together, gathering weeds, squeezing minnows of memory through shrinking nets. My ex-wife phones from a former home, a village by the sea now sinking on a shelving shore. ......Read the rest...

...Juvenilia: Early Poems VII These are early poems I wrote as a boy and as a teenager. The Leveler by Michael R. Burch The nature of Nature is bitter survival from Winter’s bleak fury till......Read the rest...