Mother New York Poems

The Earth is shaking,
The world is quaking,
Climate change is taking its toll.

New York city,
A place so pretty,
Now feeling the wrath of Mother Nature's roll.

Floods and...

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Born of Sicilian, Italian parents he was an only child.
His parents split up and his mother never let him run wild.
In a poor area of...

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NEW YORK NEW YORK AGAIN
When I go to the Service as soon as I get up
I listen to Frank Sinatra's song
“New York New York”
The city...

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Golden Lady 

When I was little my mother used to tell me...
Life is not a novel
I chose life as a theater
When I was little my...

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Along a winding, 
dirt-worn road,
mother and I explored the unknown.
Years of travel were exposed 
Where eroded  potholes and pebbles sank and
Leaves whirled and stirred
On...

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Looking back, one thing comes clean-glass clear
you were always there for me subduing every fear.

I tried to do my duty, be a husband strong and...

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THIS POEM WRITHED OUT OF THE HEART;
BASED ON A TRUE STORY 
AS PEOPLE OF THAT GREAT CITY
ARE TORN APART..

I AM A NEW YORKER 

I was...

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Mother of Cowards
by Michael R. Burch aka "The Loyal Opposition"

So unlike the brazen giant of Greek fame
With conquering limbs astride from land to land,
Spread-eagled, showering...

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The cities buildings get taller and taller
City apartments get smaller and smaller

Steel legs and arms make monsters named scaffolds
Destroying the dated to build up new...

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Watching the white flakes blow by as I gingerly step out to the glorious city.
Each time I take a step and hear a crunch, a...

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still whole
step by step after
an enormity...

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She woke up late that morning
From the fight the night before
She had argued with her husband
About what, she wasn't sure

He left for work some time...

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