Animal Paradise Poems

Life is quite good
-indoors in Inwood.
It’s uptown Manhattan
at the northern tip
-the northern tip is
the tippity-top,
where the kitty cat 
Calvin loathes to stop 
-cat napping.
Curled in...

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Early Poems XX

These are my early poems or juvenilia. 


Paradise
by Michael R. Burch, age 15

There’s a sparkling stream
And clear blue lake
A home to beaver,
Duck and...

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I am here now
Presence my companion
Rising I put my two feet
On the ground
I give thanks as I open my eyes
To this new day
A divine delicious...

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When did it happen??
I realized one day I gave my power away,
Because of love or was it,
Family, job, or demands.
Thinking back I get sick when...

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Give away your socks
Give away your Victory nickel
To the folks of Shambala.
Give away three kittens
At the candy store
In downtown Shambala.

Eat at Larry's Clambake
By the coffee...

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Beneath a quiet oak and pine who whisper
Hope through heart and mind, I sit –
Reluctant to leave my spot, where beauty
Pours over the grass carpeted...

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On the edge of gartan lake a forest path once lead, to a clearing down amongst the trees with only stars up over head.

There I...

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Trail of kitty toys going down the hall
Whoops, just tripped over a jingle ball
Became unbalanced & hit the wall
Luckily I didn’t take a good fall
It’s...

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Well,
You know me, 
I'ma busy bee,
And you're an eager beaver.
Let's get this den shakin'
For we know it,
Spring is gunna be here.
Who gives a damn?
We can...

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birds of tropics
spread your wings
with divine grace
and vivid color

come to life
free your gleeful
cries of bounty
in lavish sea of
vibrant greens

closest thing
to paradise



AP: 1st place 2022, Honorable...

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Spacious comfortable country residence
extended and upgraded, sleeps eight.
On the fringe of a conservation village
elevated distant views, sheltered
solar heating, well insulated.

Sympathetically tucked into a south facing...

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WOLF

Sheep just follow - never question why 
Straight into the slaughterhouse to die

Have in them not to become the sleuth
If one never questions what's the...

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Integrity
of resilient harmony
teaches WinWin strategy,
Egos are a holonic DNA-driven health-fragment
of one interdependently living  wealth ecosystem.

Integrity
invites active healthy love-steps
harmonic with all OriginaLife
sacred  gift Creation.

Love
need...

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(a quid pro quo plug for zaftig women)

women that tip weigh ling needle to spin vicious circle
     akin to puppy chasing...

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Can you swim with the birds?
 I dance with the leaves,
 As they move erratically from the branches that sway so steadily.
 The weary stems...

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