Flower Pride Poems

I was walking through the pineapple row and a thorn stick me on my middle toe, I bend down low to remove it and I...

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It was a long time ago,
but I still remember the day
she came to live with us,
my aunt, a young widow.
Everybody called her Rosy,
maybe because she...

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The flowers of the spring are known
Throughout the land, they bloom and grow
But those that bloom when else is naught
Quietly show their beauty wrought
In winter’s...

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The train was zooming by,
When I saw her like a veil 
A mystical angel
In the heavenly sky…

She was strolling in the street;
She was immaculately neat.
It...

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Femme, dans mon calendrier
Chaque jour est ta journée
Tu es mon âme, mon pilier
Je te chéris tous les jours
Et je t'aime, mon amour.

Femme, ma chérie, ma...

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Home, oh, sweet home
A godown for love 
A full stop for a journey
A dustbin for your grief
A flower pot for your joy 
A money -...

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Another switchback under mountain crossed, (*)
far below blue and violet spires bloom.
Undiscovered shady valley river flows lost,
rippling in pride of madeira's plume.

Turned my back to...

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We saw fields of yellow ten miles before we arrived, but the fields got brighter as we pulled into the farmer's lane.  The flowers...

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Arose me in the early morn,
Sitting under a blossom flower,
Thinking about my black race with penchant,
And the inspiring sounds of the birds,
Easing my thoughts.

Africa, the...

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I
The former Minister said, "You are born out of the world,"
Not into it! Think of a flower, How is it born?
Myriads of marvelous blooms are...

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Rejection
a roundel by Geoffrey Chaucer
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

Your beauty from your heart has so erased
Pity, that it's useless to complain;
For Pride now holds...

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large poppy heads
standing guard
~ in memory



posted on June 24, 2019...

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little girl with her
bouquet of dandelions
for mother's day



AP: Honorable Mention 2020

Posted on May 18, 2019...

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A single smile can open bolted doors
uncork expensive champagne
put balm on broken souls
chase lightning and thunder away.
A single smile can stop wars
sprinkle a little hope
blunt...

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Free winds breezing through my hair
ruffling it up, delighting in it, 
faeries laughing lightly, barely heard

A summers day, smell of fresh grass,
red tulip staunch and...

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