Moats Poems - Poems about Moats

...These are villanelles by Michael R. Burch and and villanelle-like poems... Villanelle: Trump’s Retribution Resolution by Michael R. Burch My New Year’s resolution? I require your money and ......Read the rest...

...Trump Poems and Epigrams VI Trump’s Retribution Resolution by Michael R. Burch My New Year’s resolution? I require your money and votes, for you are my retribution. May I offer you dark......Read the rest...

...Ode To the Periwinkle In thinking about it today, it was some time ago, But I can still feel the cool bath house concrete, As my feet found relief from the hot summer sand. The tasty periwi......Read the rest...

...Every night the gates of delirium are torn apart the irrational flies across the moats and walls of my defenses as easily and seductively as a murmuration of starlings, and I am rescued carried ......Read the rest...

... Up the shore the rhythmic tide strides. Twice a day, the army marches in succumbing. Then retreats, tail between its legs, discharging Its grip and flooding embrace, releasing, disengagi......Read the rest...

...I’m looking forward to letting my bare feet sink in silt the waves weighing me down salt sea leaving me breathless I’m looking forward to the sun bleaching my hair heating my a......Read the rest...

...The Ballad of Sandcastle Jane This is the Ballad of Sandcastle Jane Who went to the seaside in the pouring rain Where she built sandcastles on the seashore At first there wa......Read the rest...

...rain hitting the asphalt, the cracking concrete, water weaving its way down the overpass. Residents cover up with plastic, a conflagration of yellow light on garbage bags hitting tree tops, branch......Read the rest...

...I walk along the margins, of the shoreline of the sea, gathering abandoned shells, in search of a sea star; a tumultuous tide rushes and bellows ~ wild and free. ......Read the rest...

...O great people in a great forest land From the land of the Igodomigodo to the kukuruku I know you and the tragedy of your heroic tale You are the pulse of a great nation The heartbeat of ......Read the rest...

...When the final sunset happens when the moon no longer shines when the castle moats are empty all anger will decline When the lunar sin is counted and death is in defeat all our dragons wil......Read the rest...

...O children how beautiful the sea with its white foam clouds, its turquoise blooms, its kiddish push’n pull, its whirlpool, its briny drink… salt like liquor — be careful of where the sun beat......Read the rest...

...A sea of tales: calms and gales, sardines and whales – fishy with scales, children with pails; shell-homes of snails; pirates, and barrels of ales – a young boy's imagination... Incomin......Read the rest...

...petals and petticoats mimes and marigots blossoms and bubble boats coal buckets and car coats frazzle fritzes and fuzzy floats germinating grouchy goats muzzle loading mischief moats ostracize......Read the rest...

...'Continental Drift' - The Metaphor In the seventies (1), few people dreamed ‘it’ was true, guessed by scientists first when rough coastlines compared (2) matched like par......Read the rest...