Sonnet No Regrets Poems

Good neighbors, sweet friends, Can you forgive me?

In long, still and creeping hours of study,
I can be stern and inaccessible.

My studies tax me to basest...

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Qualms, I've had too few to admit to you.
Scruples quadrupled, I've had some doubts as well.
Leaving me squeamish, uneasy, unwell.
I fear my regrets will breed...

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Is life’s lament meant,
To stay like set cement.
Or simply drift away,
Like any passing day?

How can, I be sure? 
Just how much to endure?
Before I let...

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A candle burning low still sparks a flame
While trees bend to say goodbye to the breeze.
A river running slow still claims a name.
A candle burning...

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My memories provide a time machine -
I shut my eyes, through time I quickly fly.
I'm taken back to when I was thirteen
to navigate the maze...

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A Vain Word
by Michael R. Burch

Oleanders at dawn preen extravagant whorls
as I read in leaves’ Sanskrit brief moments remaining
till sunset implodes, till the moon strands...

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Oh, Now!  The Words that should have come, too soon
Do fade away and into Paradise!
All that I would have said in that white room,
Is...

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A cold dark past
A Chill chilled Dawn
An empty vessel full of bitterness
A lonely heart that can't fill up!

Such Is Life,  Is it? 
So, ...

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The pain today,
It won't mean a thing tomorrow.
The rain will wash away,
So forget your sorrow.
The love today,
You won't see it there.
Oh, it won't stay.
It will...

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In crystal seas, on shell strewn pristine beach
You stand demurely gazing; out of reach.
Backlit by deep persimmon in the gloaming
The waves around your ankles gently...

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Give me this day remembrance sweet of thee
and I'll endure the bitter tastes of life.
Give me thy hand and I'll sing of thee
till time has...

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To hold a lover freely with desire
When they dance love's dance in purest fashion
In small rooms paid for that will stoke the fire
That can drain...

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Bitter injustice, magnified ten times;
Shrouded deceptions, choreographed, in mindless delight.
Racheted vanities like destiny's climbs;
Nuances of regrets in the abyss of the night.

Double entendres of the...

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All this time, I felt a desire to find 
Someone who can prove forever exists 
Only if all this time I can rewind 
The moments...

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So many moments of my life have passed.
Some gone without a recognizing nod.
Without a thought that one could be the last,
They were discarded on the...

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