Moats Poems - Poems about Moats

The Night New York Slept

...It was one solemn, long night,
Tenebrous with the astuteness of perfidy,
And multiple hours before the break of an
Impatient dawn.
Lampposts froze through the pergola of winter.
Limp from exposu...

Oi Oi Hoi Polloi

...
All aboard the bizarre Farage barge.. 

Unless of course you are from abroad..
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Narcissist catalyst.. old school fraud..discord twist..

Can't resist.. staging the raging red mist.. 

Fist...

What If

...I want to stop the world.

Not freeze the spin.
I want to critique inertia
Still the blind momentum.
Interrupt the cycle of noise,
The pull of distraction,
The serpent of deception.

To stop...

Blizzard Wizard

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To the skies...cries of have we sinned..the seasons spinned...winter grinned as before it’s really beginned...spring’s been sneakily binned..

That bitter wind does cheekily blow...delivers tingl...

A Flower Vase on Top of a Piano

...My neighbor's piano swirls around her finger
likened to a keyed car where scrapes linger.

She teases out a tune as we both try to hum
along with swirling keys her fingers drum.

The naturals a...

Fourth Turning

...I wonder
How far we’ll go
So desperate for heroes who are first
Criminal enterprises
Romanticized as rebels
Lies wrapped in a maybe-he-could-make-it-all-better?
From what?
To what?

We do no...

The touch of her soft flowing hair

...I don’t think she’s really aware
That the touch of her soft flowing hair
Takes me drifting through time
To that evening at nine
When she stole my heart without care

I had just held the door
N...

Neat and Tidy

...Rows of green spaces in a row

Trying to control natures flow,

all things wild have to conform,

To fit in with accepted norm.

Cut down trees they block out the sun,

Trim the lawn curtai...

Afternoons Aplenty

...we spent the afternoon
throwing ourselves off castle walls
jumping into moats we spent
our time pierced with swords
having arrows hit us and many more
miss us in aching arms in shields
that's w...

Raindrops

...You sunny day people, so busy and bright,
You bring us the joy of a gypsy in flight,
You dance in the dew of a beautiful morn',
And capture the flag in a field of corn.

But I love the drip that...

Villanelles III

...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 ...

Trump Poems and Epigrams VI

...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...

Finding Peace

...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 ...

Tide

...
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...

Im Looking Forward To

...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...

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