Lyric Quatrain Poems

"Wild and windblown, that's how you've grown.
Who can cling to a ramblin' rose?"       Lyric written by Nat King Cole

Moving...

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Kyrielle

Dry caverns yearn for fountainheads
Splashing whirlpools filling streambeds;
Dusty grottos of emptiness
Beg for wellspring’s joyful excess.

Parched hollows anticipation
Waits for waves of transformation; 
Longs for aqua waves...

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Three is that magical number so fascinating, 
Oft-repeated in history. 
In the Bible, it is the Holy Trinity 
But there’s plenty more equally captivating. 

On...

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Your Pull
by Michael R. Burch

for Beth

You were like sunshine and rain—
begetting rainbows,
full of contradictions, like the intervals
between light and shadow.

That within you which I most...

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Eloquent song bird, what ancient lyric do
     You sing with timeless unrehearsed voice?
     Unscripted from beyond memory,...

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At Once
by Michael R. Burch

Though she was fair,
though she sent me the epistle of her love at once
and inscribed therein love’s antique prayer,
I did not...

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When you have become to me
as roses bloom, in memory,
exquisite, each sharp thorn forgot,
will I recall—yours made me bleed?

When winter makes me think of you—
whorls...

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The motion unwontedly gentle
 As if we tango on a silken thread.
 Brimming passions, yet subtle
 Like an emerald serpent.

 The icy December wind
 Brings...

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I sit down to offer my prayers
open to a new page of Life,
my old pages with curled corners
binds in with its wear and tear rife....

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When you are in love

When you captured my sight I heard a song
Evoking a symphony of feelings quite strong
As cadence of quest reached deep in...

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Write as you please
Of words that tell;
Draft a fond lease
As verse now dwells.


Lyric and sound
Sparkle and shine;
Each moment grounds
Deep feelings fine.


Touch has a way
To move...

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Scent of floral buzz,
Dash of fleeting time;
Smell the morning gush,
Heed the playful chimes.


Plumeria surprise,
By this walkway stuff;
White floral advice,
Fragrant sure enough.


Sunbeams flood new light,
Awesome colours...

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I'm spirit 
Be not afraid of it
I'm clear 
legit

I'm lyric
Empiric
Satiric
I visit

the other
I'm water
You're hot
I'm hotter

I'm son
You're daughter 
My spirit is tall
My flesh is shorter

I'm wind
Free
Not...

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My heart breaks within me-
deep inside I weep-
peace is so elusive
my mind cannot sleep

Inspiired by a favourite song lyic  'You are always on my...

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SPIRIT
I am burning my mind to fulfill my spirit
Nothing I can do different, nothing you can inherit
This is everything you can have in your merit
Don't...

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