Pronouncements Poems - Poems about Pronouncements

... I Friend, whatever brought your life to end had no appetite for mouse flesh, nudged your small gray body on its side with a thorough sniff and left your corpse exposed on the asphalt path, ......Read the rest...

...In Calcutta's heart, a symphony of need, A chorus of coughs, a symphony of pain indeed. Not music of strings, but of souls in despair, Yet a love song hums, a love beyond compare. Frail hands c......Read the rest...

...On learning to become a guru... The following artfully crafted back in the day (actually poetic endeavor presented below written a few scant years ago) in response to unexpected positive feedba......Read the rest...

...Hey, Mr. Politician, look, Just look, what you’ve done Stuck me back in combats And carrying a gun, Bayonet, spare mag, Primed stun grenade Sent to sort out the mess You bastards have made. ......Read the rest...

...The Story by Kamal Nasser loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch I will tell you a story ... a story that lived in the dreams of my people, a story that comes from the world of t......Read the rest...

...Spent By Sy Roth Her ears still tremble with the sounds Shocked into somnolence gasping to make sense. The giddy bassist a rue of flapping gums missing the flats, The drummer’s lips moving......Read the rest...

...Overcast sky, brings a rainy sky to earth ... In pronouncements of gray and silver the leaden voice call us all to the contrition prayer showing that the tenderness of the Lord is manifested ......Read the rest...

...I'm trying to find a way to confront ignorance and hatred that will have some real impact. So far everything I've tried gets diverted into confusion and madness. There's no solid ground. We're......Read the rest...

...It's inauguration day, January 20, 2021. I could be at home, watching the TV presentation pomp and pageantry. But old, achy, onerous and anxious, bladder full with no toilet near, I wait in a c......Read the rest...

...State of the Art (III) These are my "ars poetica" poems: the ones about the art and craft of writing poetry in a modern world that doesn't always recognize the artists or their work. Come ......Read the rest...

...Poems about Poems IV The Toast by Michael R. Burch For longings warmed by tepid suns (brief lusts that animated clay), for passions wilted at the bud and skies grown desolate and gray, for......Read the rest...

...Beyond the trembly weald to glassy glane beneath the wooden breath where thoughts remain 'twas a harkened land called Wordingtane. The Wizard of Words ruled this land in grips vernacular he had......Read the rest...

...King of Lies It's all about you, Isn't it? Always, no matter what the disaster You've most recently caused. It always comes back to you, And how badly you're treated By the Fake News (By w......Read the rest...

...An Obscenity Trial by Michael R. Burch The defendant was a poet held in many iron restraints against whom several critics cited numerous complaints. They accused him of trying to reach the "co......Read the rest...

...the coffee that Lenin drank as he plotted revolution, the coffee that Hitler and Stalin drank with FDR as they divided up the world after World War 11, the cup that JFK drank before he was blown away......Read the rest...