Hearts Save World
...
Written: January 16, 2024
_______________________________________
Always strive to trust your heart
With everything you do,
Don't be afraid of what others may bel...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
occluded, analogy, heart, world,
Form: Free verse
What Love Means
...I knew what love is from my mom, my first sensation
Before I could grasp its meaning, I sensed that emotion
I enjoyed it in breadth and depth as a babe from my mom
She wiped away my aches with...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
occluded, love, mom, sweet love,
Form: Rhyme
Wartime
...Walking this path.
Once populous,
Now desolate
Ambushed!
An unspeakable ambush
Now you're travailing
Just inhaling and exhaling
Breathing!
The precious breath of life
Spiritual bombs are col...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
occluded, betrayal, conflict, corruption, dark,
Form: Free verse
Cancerland
...The usual guide posts have become unreadable,
Their stony font occluded as in an ancient riddle;
Glyphs without the Greek.
The road is marked one way, no returning traffic,
Its service island...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
occluded, cancer,
Form: Rhyme
Starlight and Moonlight Ii
...Starlight and Moonlight II
These are poems about starlight and moonlight, moons and stars, dreams and visions, illuminations and intimations …
Deliver Us...
by Michael R. Burch
for m...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
occluded, dream, love, moon, night,
Form: Rhyme
Love Poems Iv
...LOVE POEMS IV by Michael R. Burch
These are love poems by Michael R. Burch: original poems and translations about love, passion, desire, lust, sex, dating, romance, relationships and marriage.
...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
occluded, desire, love, lust, marriage,
Form: Rhyme
Heat Lightening
...Heat Lightening
by Michael R. Burch
Each night beneath the elms, we never knew
which lights beyond dark hills might stall, advance,
then lurch into strange headbeams tilted up
like searchlight...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
occluded, car, crush, desire, love,
Form: Sonnet
Sonnets Xcviii-C
...Sonnets XCVIII-CII
Willy Nilly
by Michael R. Burch
for the Demiurge aka Yahweh/Jehovah
Isn’t it silly, Willy Nilly?
You made the stallion,
you made the filly,
and now they sleep
in the...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
occluded, bible, christian, god, heaven,
Form: Sonnet
The Tender Weight of Her Sighs
...The Tender Weight of Her Sighs
by Michael R. Burch
The tender weight of her sighs
lies heavily upon my heart;
apart from her, full of doubt,
without her presence to revolve around,
found want...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
occluded, creation, depression, divorce, farewell,
Form: Sonnet
Standing Upon Timeless Thoughts
...Incongruent realities thru timeless mist,
Pursuant pleasures are truly missed…
Forever looking within horizons lost,
Endeavor endless of loves tossed…
Hearts broken between blackene...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
occluded, conflict, depression, solitude,
Form: Rhyme
When Love Breaks the Sky
...Weaken pillars of the sky
Underneath are captured lies
Truth cracks and splits apart
Thus was buried a broken heart.
Life bleeds from empty love
Misery felt by a carefree shove.
Sky has falle...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
occluded, love hurts, trust,
Form: Rhyme
Love Symbolism
...Catch that love
When it glides gleefully like a rock dove
Doesn't it cover the desolate abyss
Or gives love to see our bliss?
It speaks, greatest of speakers
Words that beacon ingenuity to goa...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
occluded, love, simile, symbolism,
Form: Rhyme
Omens
...OMENS
O’er wintry land bare trees now sway
On wing above, black birds traverse
Occluded skies of baleful grey
Outspreading wings imparting curse
Yet outcomes told by prescient sense
With ome...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
occluded, life,
Form: Rhyme
The Tooth Slayer
...Grinding to a halt his jaws clenching and crunching
Tim had tried all treatments under the sun like
pills and the couch hypnosis even osteo-cranial touches
But his resentments would not aba...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
occluded, magic,
Form: Free verse
Omen
...OMEN
O’er wintry land bare trees now sway
On wing above, black birds traverse
Occluded skies of baleful grey
Outspreading wings impart a curse
Omen of darkest consequence
Outcomes perceived by...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
occluded, dark,
Form: Verse
Related Poems