Time Out of Place
...All who have no faith in time
live at peace in a timeless mousehole
a hole in the fabric of nothing at all,
where a moment is but a whisker
that twitches infinity.
Danny boy
walked boldly out...
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Categories:
mousehole, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
The Loss of the Lifeboat, the 'Solomon Browne'
...In the year ninteen eighty one on the nineteenth day of December
A day the town of Mousehole in Cornwall, will always remember
An R.N.L.I. Watson class wooden lifeboat, the 'Solomon Browne'
La...
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Categories:
mousehole, boat, death, people, rain,
Form: Narrative
The Pause
...It is barely light;
the coffee cup abandoned last night
is half full of shadows.
Through the window
an armada of geese
rows across a silent movie.
A shallow doorstep of time
has pardoned thi...
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Categories:
mousehole, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Self Reflections
...SELF REFLECTIONS
These are poems about mirrors, images, self-image, reflections, impressions and self-reflection.
Self Reflection
by Michael R. Burch
for anyone struggling with self-image...
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Categories:
mousehole, identity, image, imagery, metaphor,
Form: Rhyme
Poems About Poems Vi
...Poems about Poems VI
The Board
by Michael R. Burch
Accessible rhyme is never good.
The penalty is understood?
soft titters from dark board rooms where
the businessmen paste on their hair
a...
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Categories:
mousehole, extended metaphor, heaven, muse,
Form: Rhyme
Pity Clarity
...Pity Clarity
by Michael R. Burch
Pity Clarity,
and, if you should find her,
release her from the tangled webs
of dusty verse that bind her.
And as for Brevity,
once the soul of wit—
she f...
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Categories:
mousehole, life, love, poetry, poets,
Form: Verse
Enough
...Enough!
by Michael R. Burch
It’s not that I don’t want to die;
I shall be glad to go.
Enough of diabetes pie,
and eating sickly crow!
Enough of win and place and show.
Enough of end...
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Categories:
mousehole, body, cancer, death, health,
Form: Light Verse
Generations
...I wrote this after a conversation with an old retired fisherman whilst sitting on the harbour wall at Mousehole in Cornwall, UK ...
The old man sits by the pots on the wall
He looks out to sea an...
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Categories:
mousehole, age, father, fishing, life,
Form: Verse
English Weather Forecast
...I pored over my weather maps contriving a prognostication,
Of the weather forecast for the consumption of the British population.
It comprised all the towns, villages and shires from A to Zed,
To ...
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Categories:
mousehole, funny, weather,
Form: Rhyme
Piddlehinton, Et Al
...I met a chap in an English pub and asked from whence he came.
"Harumph! I hail from Piddlehinton", he pompously did proclaim!
"And you sir?", he asked and I proudly puffed out my chest.
"I come fr...
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Categories:
mousehole, funny, places, city, me,
Form: Rhyme
Mousehole
...Shifting focus from farm to stars
the drifting night begins
where listless day turns to mist.
Beyond the harbour bar
boats put out to sea.
By dawn the salty breeze
is flecked with foam
it p...
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Categories:
mousehole, happiness, nature, people, places,
Form: Free verse