Scintillant Poems

amour scintillant

...The knife held in trembling hands. 
Gasped breaths intermingling in the cold, dreary night. 
Hushed whispers, choked off words. 
Thousands of what if's disappearing like smoke in the polluted sky....

Delphic

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Inspiration, Title 1/ Delphic - 
Quote: The forest is my loyal friend A Delphic shrine to me.
 
                                                             Ralph Waldo Emerson

I Dream Poetry In Darkness and Light

...| I Dream Poetry in Darkness and Light |

Unbroken, my light rises like deep alluvion of sweet rivulets,
Craving passions and tragedies like written poetries of Juliet.

In softly spoken words I...

Marrying Miss Poetry

...My dream was to marry Miss Poetry
When I was very, very young
Intelligent, determined and strong
Miss Poetry was sweet, zesty and classy.

My Muse was about styles and literature
As I said befo...

Sun and Light

...Sun
resplendent, lustrous
invigorating, radiating, warming
humans, habitats, ecosystems, vegetations
captivating, energ...

Black

...Beauty of a blind man's insight in darkness, 
Lack of lustre of insight in the sighted and the wise;
Aglow with stars, the scintillant splendid sky
Charms the black nig...

Stream of Love

...Nestled in the woods,
away from sundry glances,
she sleeps in his shadow 
and sighs in dusky dreams.

Her melancholic, frozen limbs 
ache for the warmth of his orb!

At the dawn of the mellow...

The Stranger

...She knew she wasn't the
first shy girl conned beneath
a scintillant moon.

Why do boys lie so 
- inveigling fabrications
- hoping to impress?

Why interlace fibs,
when, from first sight, she...

Poems About Flight, Flying and Birds I

...Poems about Flight, Flying, and Birds (I)



Flight
by Michael R. Burch

It is the nature of loveliness to vanish
as hummingbird wings, batting against nothingness
seek transcendence...


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Poems About Poems Iii

...Poems about Poems III

Radiance
by Michael R. Burch

for Dylan Thomas

The poet delves earth’s detritus?hard toil?
for raw-edged nouns, barbed verbs, vowels’ lush bouquet;
each syllable his ...

Poems About Poets I

...Poems about Poets I


The Wonder Boys
by Michael R. Burch

for Leslie Mellichamp

The stars were always there, too-bright cliches:
scintillant truths the jaded world outgrew
as baffled poet...

A Star's Heartbeat

...I watch her in the sky shining like a diamond chit 
splashing her light around in the midnight sombre
she is more beautiful then all other things that orbit 
this star, she's an insight to...

The Wonder Boys

...The Wonder Boys
by Michael R. Burch
 
(for Leslie Mellichamp, the late editor of The Lyric,
who was a friend and mentor to many poets, and
a fine poet in his own right)
 
The stars were always...

Observance

...Observance
by Michael R. Burch

Here the hills are old and rolling
carefully in their old age;
on the horizon youthful mountains
bathe themselves in windblown fountains...

By dying leaves an...

Ototoxic Orbiting

... Your love orbits my celestial body causing earthquakes and floods,

Within a calamitous canopy mixing of the barbarous bacterial bloods…

A seditious satellite roaming amongst the sci...

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