Albedo effect in full force after appreciable snowfall
...Albedo effect in full force after appreciable snowfall
After descent of eventide
luminescence of freshly fallen snow
still illuminates the terrestrial firma bright
even upon the onset of dusk,
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Categories:
near blind, appreciation, break up, celebration,
Form: Free verse
Juvenilia: Early Poems Viii
...Juvenilia: Early Poems VIII
These are early poems of mine, written in my teens as a high school and college student.
Moon Lake
by Michael R. Burch
Starlit recorder of summer nights,
what ...
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Categories:
near blind, boy, child, childhood, high
Form: Rhyme
My Beautiful Headache
...You are such a beautiful headache;
so hard to get rid of.
My body wishes you would leave,
but there's no cure to ward you off
Yet,your face is like a drug;
one look, & my troubles are put t...
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Categories:
near blind, allegory, conflict, crush, fate,
Form: Rhyme
Reflections On the Loss of Vision
...Reflections on the Loss of Vision
by Michael R. Burch
The sparrow that cries from the shelter of an ancient oak tree and the squirrels
that dash in delight through the treetops as the first snow...
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Categories:
near blind, age, child, childhood, loss,
Form: Verse
For All That I Remembered
...For All That I Remembered
by Michael R. Burch
For all that I remembered, I forgot
her name, her face, the reason that we loved ...
and yet I hold her close within my thought:
I feel the burnis...
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Categories:
near blind, desire, dream, memory, remember,
Form: Sonnet
Crwss Cross
...Cress Cross
By Charles G.P. Chard 2nd.
Chevra Gavri Hanita Hazaka Abir Selek 2nd
What is right side up, is upside down,
What is upside down, is around,
One eye looks but only s...
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Categories:
near blind, christian,
Form: I do not know?
It's Too Early To Prite Woetry
...It's too early to prite woetry,
It's only three a.m.
I haven't had my coffee yet,
I can't sit in the den.
I'm sitting on the toilet,
Where the light is awful dim.
I can't wake my husband ,
He'...
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Categories:
near blind, humor, marriage,
Form: Cowboy Poetry
Viagra and Beer
...Submitted by: Buzz O'Words
Written: 3/3/14
Too much Viagra and beer.
My wife was out of town,
I hit every club around.
Each time I'd hope to find
A horny woman here.
Country Bob's was the ...
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Categories:
near blind, body, desire, drink, fantasy,
Form: Lyric
Robert Hayden
...Who has heard the voice?
Who knows the verse,
on a quiet Sunday that waits
silently? No one has seen.
Who has learned
of the champion from Detroit,
the laureate of America,
the subtle poet ...
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Categories:
near blind, art, black african american,
Form: Elegy