Romantic Poems

Dear Davey, my darling, my bright pirate boy
Your lips are the prize in the night of my joy
Your eyes can erase me or teach me the cure
Of how you can face me by all you endure

Your sigh is the sign...Read More

Kindred (II)
by Michael R. Burch

Rise, pale disastrous moon! 
What is love, but a heightened effect
of time, light and distance? 

Did you burn once, 
before you became
so remote, so detached, 

so coldly, inhumanly lustrous, 
before you were able to assume
the very...Read More

Convent 
I think of you now, 
Why I do not know. 
You made an impression upon me. 
How? I cannot answer. 
You just did. 
I know now I miss you. 
Yearn to be by your side. 
I just want you...Read More

I feel so close to him,
Like nothing on earth could compare…
To the joy, hope, faith and peace I’ve found with him,
Always sharing and believing and dreaming,
So alive and fulfilled and with no need for anything…
Only the love that we have...Read More

Ashes

Ashes to ashes, dust to dust…
How many times have we heard this?
on TV, in a play, in a movie… 
Have you ever read it in the bible? 
The very book of life!
He that made all things, 
you, me and the...Read More

THE DAY MY LIFE BEGAN

The day my life began, my friends,
Was back in nineteen sixty-two.
It was a romantic story,
That I'll now relate to you

When Mum and Dad first married,
Things were hard for a time.
There wasn’t much money for luxuries;
They had...Read More

Why I strayed, I know the reason, but do you? You’re the one that I fell into their arms, the one that I turned to
Although I told you then I never got too deep, but now I feel as though...Read More

Another day without you.
Another day to be alive.
Within sorrow's empty heart.
How do I survive.

Loneliness surrounds me.
My other half is gone.
Half of this whole is missing.
from this souls loving song.

No notes I sing this morning.
To greet this new day.
No smiles I...Read More

Truth Matters

Deplorable. 
That is what I am. 
That is okay with me. 
I work hard, 
Have a family. 
I support my wife, 
and my own kids. 
I even adopted a couple…

I am made to pay. 
I am made to do...Read More

Angels in Blue
Saints in Green

The hospital is a cold and sterile place. 
It is not meant to be…
warm or nice. 
It is meant to be a building…
set aside; 
to let life win and death, 
have no chance at all. 

The...Read More

Pineapple Delight

Today is the first day, 
The rest will all just follow, 
and sometimes get in the way. 
There will be good times, 
bad times, 
out of work, 
of out of money, 
and even dreadful mistakes. 
The kind, 
that can...Read More

Filial Child 

Halfway to heaven, 
so thrilled to be saved.
My life, 
changed forever.
Filled with your spirit,
wrestles to serve. 

On fire…
in the night,
running through the streets, 
until I fall… before You.

Dancing for My Lord, 
To a music that has always been,...Read More

Pirouetting leaf,
Classical dance with the wind:
Ballet of the Fall....Read More

Sudden rain brought me
under your umbrella
for the first time.
For the first time
you were so close to me
with your fragrance.
The umbrella was
not big enough
to cover both of us.
A raindrop was trickling 
down your forehead.
I was following it's trail
without listening to you.
Your...Read More

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AFTER S.H.P
———————-

Do not love me as I am corona 
Traveling through space to break your persona 

I have left on your face a ditch from your tears 
Now, all your brethren wear dresses of fears

Paris I raped, she’s no more...Read More

Her Honesty virtue, encapsulates my heart 
Her Angelic nature,is what sets her apart 
Her Beauteous smile always melts my heart 
Her Effulgent face,is like diamond under the light 
Her Eye-catching beauty, dazzles the sight 
Her Romantic converse,soothes like the moonlight...Read More

Poetry saved my soul
It was accidentally on purpose
I fell into it, and stayed seated

The teacher highly discouraged me
It was a graduate level course
He assured me I would flunk
And I did.

I loved it though
This course was the only course
I had taken...Read More

I want someone to write me a love song, to sing the words that they feel for me deep inside, I came close to this wish, once upon a time
Although your words weren’t a love song, they were in the...Read More

Have You

Ever wondered how it happens?
How the last person stays, 
How they make sure, everyone else gets out?

Ever wonder why?
Is that important? 
As long as we are safe, 
does it really matter who sacrificed;
or more specifically or…
even more importantly what...Read More

The Passing of Fear
A mark on the door…

It is so quiet here, 
I believe that I can hear a snake, 
meandering across the dirt road, 
along the backside of the west fence. 
Usually he takes his time, 
but tonight, 
he...Read More

I know you see me lady
Beyond the curtain
Look me over lady more and more
So that you can choose me
So that you can make me yours.

My body gives me warning
My body is still warming
Give me a chance lady, give me a...Read More

Stream-ing in the Time of Covid-19

we are in mandated private isolation
my preoccupied muse and I
even though I plead and threaten her
not a single poem will she try

she is silent and stubborn, my arrogant muse
refusing to allow my dormant poetry to...Read More

Beckoning
by Michael R. Burch

Yesterday the wind whispered my name
while the blazing locks
of her rampant mane
lay heavy on mine.
And yesterday
I saw the way
the wind caressed tall pines
in forests laced by glinting streams
and thick with tangled vines.
And though she reached
for me in...Read More

Storm Front

My voice is quiet. 
I have little to say. 
I am listening instead…

I can hear birds. 
Not a couple, but many.
They are all around. 
They are happy.
They are busy.

The wind…
rustling through, the trees.
I can feel, 
the heartbeat…
of my home....Read More

Leaping love lives long
Serenity soulmates sing
Wishing for walking wisdom 

Romantic rainbows 
Shows swaying spirits the gold
Twinkles through forever time

March 30th 2020
Contest: Pick-A-Title, Vol 15-Sedoka
Sponsor: Edward Ibeh 
2. Infinitude
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