Farewell Poems Poems

Oh Syrinx, by the lake where you await, blossom anew!
Proud of murmurs that speak of goddesses, in a reverent hue.

Unleash the waists of shadows, in...

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We find ourselves with you in time, 
Thoughts of you are roaming our minds
Angels playing music at the Gate
Heaven will be Home; let's call it...

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Grab Bag Poems and Epigrams

POEMS

Less Heroic Couplets: Dark Cloud, Silver Lining, Dupes
from “Love in the Time of the Coronavirus”
by Michael R. Burch

Every corona has a...

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You left
After death
Knocked at your door
No need to say more.

We painfully grieved
We recited your poems.

We cried like grown kids
As you lay
Silently surrounded
By a dazzling array...

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A year has gone by, let it go,
Embrace the new year as it comes;
Past skirmishes, and slights, let go,
Let’s greet happiness in our homes;

Another year...

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I wandered through the woodlands green
And heard the birdsong fill the air
I saw the little streams serene
With speckled trout that darted there

I felt the breeze...

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Once, when I was young – another writer,
A poet and poetry lover, someone undiscovered…
She (it could have been he since I only knew 
Pen names...

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The last breath
The last death
The last phone call
The last fall
The last funeral
The last burial
The last roll
The last poll
The last smile
The last style
The last flight
The last...

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The musk of damp earth after a coating of autumnal rain permeates,

Smoke upon distant chimneys, spiralled clumsily, enveloped by the evening sky,

Leaves underfoot make a...

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Act 5

 

 

Head a buzzing, why my cousin?

He let his intentions known as we moaned and groaned.

His eye on mine from the start.

Left scolded from a...

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"Love Weaves A Mysterious Magic Spell"                   ...

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In the depths of my being, I yearn to reveal
The essence of who I am, a truth surreal
I pledge to stand by you, through highs...

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Poetry positively proud
Purposeful Pondering Petals 
Of a softest 
 perpetual Persuasion poetry
Soup potion renders elation 
Energy elevation? It is the
Escalation of the notion of a
Poetrysoup...

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Farewell seems so final,  
like death.   
How does one say~goodbye,  
not easy for family and friends.  
A writer will always...

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It's not a secret if you tell
but no fun unless someone
else knows as well

Secrets told in confidence
trusting the one you tell
To their secrecy wave farewell

The...

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