Fall Sunset
...It's seven o'clock and the sun is setting.
It's my least favourite thing about fall.
Too soon it will be days so short
we wonder if they were there at all.
Already the leaves on the trees are t...
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Categories:
pinafores, autumn, color,
Form: Rhyme
Dreaning of Yellow Poppy Fields
...DREAMING OF YELLOW POPPY FIELDS
Soft among the yellow poppy fields,
I clung to clocks of Dandelions,
Driven by my seeds of youth.
Breathless in their grace,
They gather all, rolling in the sum...
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Categories:
pinafores, metaphor, yellow,
Form: Free verse
Apocalyptic Poems Iii
...These are prophetic poems and apocalyptic poems about the earth, climate change, global warming, extinction events, and mankind's role on an endangered world ...
Polish
by Michael R. Burch
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Categories:
pinafores, earth, earth day, environment,
Form: Rhyme
From Bud To Full Blown Blossom
...tiny pink buds
trimming little girls lace pinafores
one lone rose in a crystal vase at church
delighting those who take a whiff
knock-out roses
neon and fabulous
showing off in the garden
m...
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Categories:
pinafores, flower,
Form: Free verse
Sonnets Xc-Xcvii
...Sonnets XC-XCVII
Artificial Smile
by Michael R. Burch
I’m waiting for my artificial teeth
to stretch belief, to hollow out the cob
of zealous righteousness, to grasp life’s stub
between cle...
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Categories:
pinafores, art, grave, grief, life,
Form: Sonnet
Modern Appetite
...Modern Appetite
by Michael R. Burch
"Women, wine, song ..."
It grumbled low, insisting it would feast
on blood and flesh, etcetera, at least
three times a day. With soft lubricious grease
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Categories:
pinafores, america, city, life, society,
Form: Sonnet
Abandoned School House
...On the wind-swept Nebraska prairie sits a building in wretched shambles,
Surrounded by a sagging fence and overgrown with prickly brambles.
It was once a bustling one-room school house, abandoned l...
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Categories:
pinafores, nostalgia, school,
Form: Rhyme
Honoring You In Living Color
...Kitchen counters alive; the vivid colors of red, green, purple and yellow glass jars. Your garden flourished.
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Pickled beets mingle boiled eggs; a pretty periwinkle purple.
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Yellow and ...
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Categories:
pinafores, mom, mother, mother daughter,
Form: Free verse
Rough Roads To Roam
...The flames of the furnace (well-travelled by wind
slowly glazing the rags of gray women chagrined
at the sight of a hair fleeing tresses now thinned)
sometimes billow like waves flooding naves th...
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Categories:
pinafores, culture, earth, humanity, planet,
Form: Rhyme
Pearl
...Sitting on a park bench
and taking in the view,
she's always got an eye out
for the children, me and you,
pestering our parents
with a grumble or a pout.
We cluster all around her,
we call ...
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Categories:
pinafores, care,
Form: Verse
Pearl
...Sitting on a park bench
and taking in the sights,
she's always got an eye out
for the children, running
back and forth 'til they are wired,
while pestering their parents -
"Come on, Momma, we'r...
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Categories:
pinafores, inspirational,
Form: Verse
Pearls of Wisdom
...Sitting on a park bench
and taking in the view,
she always had an eye out
for us children, right on cue.
With her muffler and a blanket
to keep away the cold,
she smiled to see us frolicking,
to us...
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Categories:
pinafores, children, friendship, inspirational, day,
Form: Verse
Autumn's Sweet Song
...like ballet dancers
in colourful pinafores
an impromptu dance
choreographed by the wind
leaves dance to Autumn's sweet song
for Nathan's contest "Tanka (Season)"...
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Categories:
pinafores, nature, seasons,
Form: Tanka
Pearls of Wisdom
...Sitting on a park bench
and taking in the view,
she's always got an eye out
for the children, me and you,
when we're pestering our parents
with a grumble or a pout.
We cluster all around her,
we ca...
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Categories:
pinafores, devotion, children, friendship, life,
Form: Rhyme
Blossoms' Wish
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Captivating my senses, a floral banquet
robed in gold- orange pinafores with curls,
their faces upturned to greet new sunset
trays of daffodils rouse fields in f...
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Categories:
pinafores, happiness, nature, daffodils,
Form: Quatrain
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