Juvenilia: Early Poems X
...Juvenilia: Early Poems X
These are early poems written in my teens and twenties.
Regret
by Michael R. Burch
Regret,
a bitter
ache to bear...
once starlight
languished
in your hair......
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Categories:
poppied, age, child, children, dream,
Form: Rhyme
Somewhere Exotic
...The pungence of heartbreak swelters
in the tangled dreadlocks of love-lies-bleeding
Take me somewhere exotic
to breathe not the foul aroma
of disappointment and despair
Show me fields laced with...
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Categories:
poppied, color, imagery, lost love,
Form: Free verse
Poppies: Collaboration With Mystic Rose
...Hillsides shimmer in summer's golden fire
as marmalade sun dawns on poppied slopes.
I run with Monarch butterflies higher
barefoot in honey with tangerine hopes.
I hear the butter chirp of a wa...
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Categories:
poppied, butterfly, flower, inspirational, lost
Form: Quatrain
I Comeforth
...From watered womb burst
From poppied fields sprung
I Comeforth
With Penance scarred skin
Fines of blood given
My keeping bondage loosened
I Comeforth
Standing attentive in destiny's battle
Fi...
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Categories:
poppied, angst,
Form: Prose Poetry
On December's Throne (Classic Poetry Cento)
...Now sleeps the crimson petal, now the white;
alone with the enduring Earth, and Night.
With fold to fold, of mountain or of cape;
who wrestles with his dream; as some pale shape.
Their sharp blac...
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Categories:
poppied, philosophynight, night,
Form: Rhyme
Categories:
poppied, nature, places,
Form: Fibonacci