Wild bird
I saw him in an old farmer's cowhouse, Dancing and playing with other playmates,
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Categories:
playmates, 4th grade, 5th grade,
Form: Personification
Revisiting My Mother Goddess
Revisiting My Mother Goddess
The lake
That looks like a piano
On it sat
Thousand cranes and two
Seemed like a moonlight sonata by the moonlight.
But why is my mind yearning forever
For the unmindful musings?
I had been there once, nearly
Forty years ago.
They send me return tickets from Jhargram,
For the festive October,
Celebrating the home coming of our mother goddess
But
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Categories:
playmates, cheer up,
Form: Verse
Poems About Children Vi
Poems about Children VI
Playmates
by Michael R. Burch
WHEN you were my playmate and I was yours,
we spent endless hours with simple toys,
and the sorrows and cares of our indentured days
were uncomprehended . . . far, far away . . .
for the temptations and trials we had yet to face
were lost in the shadows of an unventured
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Categories:
playmates, child, childhood, children, love,
Form: Rhyme
The Wind Shepherds
The Wind Shepherds
The winds,
Like shepherds,
Tend Tule fog and dew;
Playmates
Sliding down sunbeams,
Teasing kites,
To leap frog
Over mountains peeking
Into playgrounds
Ever changing.
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Categories:
playmates, wind,
Form: Free verse
Playmates
Playmates
by Michael R. Burch
WHEN you were my playmate and I was yours,
we spent endless hours with simple toys,
and the sorrows and cares of our indentured days
were uncomprehended . . . far, far away . . .
for the temptations and trials we had yet to face
were lost in the shadows of an unventured maze.
Then
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Categories:
playmates, adventure, best friend, boy,
Form: Verse
Playmates
Little boy,
come play with me
escaping vague realities.
Come sing the songs you left unsung
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Categories:
playmates, love, romance, romantic,
Form: Rhyme