Past Perfect
...Coming to the promised land. South Florida home of the newly wed and nearly dead. I watch the clouds role by for today seems like yesterday and the day before. The same faces pass my eye. I say hello...
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Categories:
past perfect, allusion,
Form: Bio
Nostalgia
...Where have those years gone?
In ninth decade when I brood,
They’re here on their own—
As my life’s second childhood—
In memories all marooned!
Wish I’d not grown up,
There were times when I f...
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Categories:
past perfect, childhood, memory, nostalgia, remember,
Form: Tanka
Lullabies
...These are lullabies I have written as poems.
Midnight Lullaby
by Michael R. Burch
I.
A measureless rhythm rules the night—
few have heard it,
but I have shared it,
and its secret is mine....
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Categories:
past perfect, dream, Lullaby, night, sleep,
Form: Rhyme
Short Poem To a Poetress
...Let's make a pact:
let's forget the past
Footsteps from behind, there are no more
Thorns that are love bonds now
Past perfect. ..passed on!...
PS studing Erivas...
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Categories:
past perfect, allegory, allusion, poetess, tribute,
Form: Light Verse
His Limbo Soliloquy
...His Limbo Soliloquy
Actually, I like lockdown. I already was before COVID anyway,
but now I’ve got my privacy. No family feeling forced to visit
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Categories:
past perfect, spiritual,
Form: Free verse
Final Lullaby
...Final Lullaby
by Michael R. Burch
for my mother, Christine Ena Burch
Sleep peacefully—for now your suffering’s over.
Sleep peacefully—immune to all distress,
like pebbles unaware of raging...
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Categories:
past perfect, death, eulogy, funeral, Lullaby,
Form: Lyric
Monoku Monday - Dec 2020
..."Reigning Cats and Dogs" Posted 6 Dec 2020
the difference between dogs and cats is dogs have owners, cats have staff
who's supposed to read the signs that say 's...
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Categories:
past perfect, cat, dog, humor, pets,
Form: Monoku
Peace Prayer
...These are peace poems, prayer poems, hymns and lullabies I have written for family, friends and the world over the years ...
Peace Prayer
by Michael R. Burch
for Jim Dunlap
Be calm.
Be sti...
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Categories:
past perfect, beauty, blessing, love, nature,
Form: Free verse
Sappho's Lullaby
...Sappho's Lullaby
by Michael R. Burch
for Jeremy
Hushed yet melodic, the hills and the valleys
sleep unaware of the nightingale's call
while the dew-laden lilies lie
listening,
glistening....
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Categories:
past perfect, desire, Lullaby, moon, mother
Form: Lyric
Need To Wake Up
...One moment too late, a misconception
what happened to a time well spent
scorched by anger, bedeviled by sorrow, entombed by history
One day was thought to be bad enough
yet it expanded and a week...
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Categories:
past perfect, how i feel,
Form: Free verse
Sixty Eight
...SIXTY EIGHT
For years I’ve lived with being a soixante-huiter
Although my wardrobe’s more fastidious and neater
Those heady days are not beyond recall
The nights and days when we first did it a...
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Categories:
past perfect, adventure, education, emotions, giggle,
Form: Sonnet