Brother Passion Poems

The way it is today
I must say
So much hate
Of late
Such a sad fate
People crying over wrongs in the past 
Things that did not even then...

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Foggy mists engulfed the bright
When raindrops fell throughout the night
The lampposts glowed at midnights dark
When sweethearts kissed at Lover's Park
 
 
A kiss that did...

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(1.)

The Truth Of Dearest Love Sworn, I Ask God How

Over the grit-stained shoulders of ancient marble
Rests a million vagaries of humanity's million sins
Just as earth's...

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Overly familiar with her defiance
patterns of fetal alcohol confusion,
neuro-systemic habits of resistance,

I, the consummate ecofeminist,
was sure my daughter felt
I was shutting wounded Ivy out
when she...

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Passion~an emotion,                       ...

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God, you said to offer a lamb,
but your wish puts me in a jam.
Why kill a lamb? I am no brute,
I’ll sacrifice instead some fruit.

Like...

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From predawn birth, you dwell alone,
Preferring deep shadowland over light.
So much easier to conceal what is shown,
Nascent ember forelimbs that daunt your sight.

With growth in...

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My family is my obsession
They’re the ones I’m crazy about.
My mom, my dad,
And my little brother
My grandparents, my aunts, and uncles
And cousins too, 
are the...

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As I walk down the busy street,                  ...

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Emotions***

It is easy for me to let my emotions govern my behavior, as I cope with my emotions.  Carefully, I am following the instructions...

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Poems about Poems V

Distances
by Michael R. Burch

There is a small cleanness about her,
as though she has always just been washed,
and there is a dull obedience...

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Manifestation of pain
inside walls of your gospel
Penned up truths that 
haunted your psyche but
you made the pen a weapon 
that prospered against all 
that troubled...

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Eating dinner and looking into each others eyes,                 ...

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Aphrodite, the goddess of love
 Breathed a charm on my skin
  Telling it to feel like it was dancing
   When the one...

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Soft words said softly to me.                   ...

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