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Dear Miss Muffet

...I write to you, dear Miss Muffet,
who once sat upon a tuffet.
It was sixty long years ago,
when your story, then, was told.
Unfortunate details would unfold 
as a spider's yarn unrolled, 
if yo...

Categories: rose cheeked, humor, nursery rhyme,
Form: Rhyme

Suzy and June

...
Suzy with her cute black curls
and red rose in her hair
plays with June. These rose-cheeked girls
have lots of love to share.

Tea parties make both girls grin.
Some sweet tea they have made....

Categories: rose cheeked, friendship,
Form: Rhyme

New Year Poems I

...New Year Poetry

Auld Lange Syne
by Robert Burns
translation by Michael R. Burch 

Should old acquaintance be forgot,
And never brought to mind?
Should old acquaintance be forgot,
And days f...

Categories: rose cheeked, birth, celebration, change, firework,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

Love Poems V

...LOVE POEMS V

These are love poems by Michael R. Burch, about life, the dream of love, virtue, a first kiss, a first crush, the birth of a first relationship, the joy of a first love and a last lov...

Categories: rose cheeked, birth, confusion, crush, dream,
Form: Rhyme

Rejection Slips 3

...Rejection Slips 3

Rejection Slip
by Michael R. Burch

Whenever my writing gets rejected,
I always wonder how the rejecter got elected.
Are we exchanging at the same Bourse?
(Excepting presen...

Categories: rose cheeked, death, desire, family, heart,
Form: Rhyme

Rejection Slips 1

...Rejection Slips

With over 5,700 publications if I count poems that have gone viral, I suppose I shouldn’t complain … but I do have some poems that have never been accepted for publication. Here ar...

Categories: rose cheeked, day, love, memory, night,
Form: Rhyme

Salvation of a Formalist, An Ode To Entropy

...Salvation of a Formalist, an Ode to Entropy
by Michael R. Burch

Entropy?
God's universal decree
That I get to be
Disorderly?
Suddenly
My erstwhile boxed-in verse is free?
Wheeeeee!



E...

Categories: rose cheeked, humor, humorous, light, nonsense,
Form: Light Verse

The Sky Was Turning Blue

...Yesterday I saw you
as the snow flurries died,
spent winds becalmed.
When I saw your solemn face
alone in the crowd,
I felt my heart, so long embalmed,
begin to beat aloud.

Was it another wi...

Categories: rose cheeked, first love,
Form: Verse

The Red Sun

...She Rose Up, He went Down 

seen through the heat haze of  morn
the sun rises, blushing pink 
to peach, then rose cheeked

a lustful sun burns the sky
to periwinkle blue
oh the after glow

Date: 6/28...

Categories: rose cheeked, love, lust,
Form: Dodoitsu

The Shores of Babylon

...The shiver from the opened window.. flair
adventure blooms rose- cheeked upon the day.
The bags packed wait beside the tumbling stair
and soon the engine purrs without delay.

From ground to air...

Categories: rose cheeked, adventure, happiness, inspirational, life
Form: Sonnet

The Train To Wimbledon

...With a snakelike hiss, the tangerine train doors close
and the engine rock-rumbles forward 
clicking over each joined metal coupling.

Long gone are the pristine days of virginity 
and t...

Categories: rose cheeked, childhood, travel,
Form: Free verse