Winter Philosophy Poems

And so it snows –
And snow it goes

The day arrived
The sun arose
The world was white
From overnight
The sun was warm
The sun was bright
And so the snow
As...

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...I think many of them forget
how precarious all this is,
civilization only works
if success is what we all give.
If the plumber does not succeed
that we’re all...

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The sun, they curse,  
Witnesses the Summer,
Winter comes with grace,
The Sun, they desire.

The dance of the rain,
The elegance of water,
When buried grudge breathes,
Storm burst...

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"Timeless trust,
   trapped in Selene's pendant,
                 ...

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In the rising fog of the New Year, let burdens take flight,
As failures lift like morning dew under the sun's gentle touch,
Let them drift away,...

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In the silky night, dotted with mystery,
Where the moon's thread weaves shadows on the paths,
The heart, a thin garment, a flash in the ether,
Listens as...

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POEMS ABOUT SHAKESPEARE by Michael R. Burch

Fleet Tweet: Apologies to Shakespeare
by Michael R. Burch

a tweet
by any other name
would be as fleet!



Fleet Tweet II: Further Apologies...

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Our Castilian castle,
an Iberian stronghold 
affixed onto clay shores
destined to be capsized
by tragedy’s
tidal waves

Our steeple’s lips grazed 
the crystalline expanse, 
before turquoise shards, 
released from...

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The Conditions of Living

Stark organisations of my observations
Respond to beauty with pure elation 
Instead of chronic devastation 
Process the abject consternation 
From contrived over-saturation 
And...

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I balance my illicitly obtained bottle of absinthe from a man who knows a man, for an exorbitant amount of Euros, on the worn wooden...

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"The Road Less Traveled"

Not all roads diverge in a wood,
Some lead to places misunderstood.
They wind and twist, never straight,
Leading us to a different fate.

While others...

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This is a love poem for a rainy day
Seem through the streaks 
Of a wet windowpane 
And the eyeful of streaming tears
Escaping to roll down...

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Here & there, everywhere 
lie pieces & parts of me
I exist only in the moments between what is and will be…

Taking a ride to the...

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Another sleepless night,
I watch the snow fall. 

Furious flurries in a heavenly jailbreak,
they pile up in the window corners anonymously.

One itinerant catches itself on the...

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A Season for war
We rage in twilight…

At the edge of our reason.
Winter surges at the realm,
Summer comes to slay,
Spring tries to heal,
Fall loves the decay.

Black...

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