POEMS ABOUT SAINTS AND SINNERS
...POEMS ABOUT SAINTS AND SINNERS
Of Seabound Saints and Promised Lands
by Michael R. Burch
Judas sat on a wretched rock,
his head still sore from Satan’s gnawing.
Saint Brendan’s curragh caug...
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Categories:
seabound, america, baptism, bible, christian,
Form: Rhyme
Voyage
...There she seabound blows.
Where is it she always goes?
Nobody yet knows....
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Categories:
seabound, boat,
Form: Senryu
Haiku
...salmon leap... for life
shallow streams bid them welcome
otters... all well fed
elvers... millions
passing salmon parr... seabound
smoked eel... delicious
tench... the doctor fish
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Categories:
seabound, fish, nature,
Form: Haiku
The Gift of Beauty
...When eyes delight upon a work of Michelangelo—gut grinding art--
Creation by a mere man, from his enchanted hands
explode results of David –perhaps a heavenly message to impart
to the earthboun...
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Categories:
seabound, art, beauty, life,
Form: Rhyme
To Lie Awake In Doubt
...I muse a song that songs have known,
and often of it sing
what of waste? what of want?
and of desired things,
I tell a tale no man has known,
and every man same
in the blood of human life
all hearts,...
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Categories:
seabound, loss, love, sea, hope,
Form: Rhyme
Michelangelo's Hands
...MICHELANGELO'S HANDS
When eyes delight upon a work of Michelangelo—gut wrenching art--
Creation by a mere man, from his enchanted hands
explode results of David –perhaps a heavenly message t...
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Categories:
seabound, allegory, art, beauty, history,
Form: Ode
Come
...Come, let us walk this broken street, you and I;
Explore the infamy we share before we die.
After all, will death not seize man's birthright
When this day gives way to night?
Signposts all ...
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Categories:
seabound, philosophy, day, death, sound,
Form: Free verse
Solitary Venture
...Concealed ambitions
Pacing a sandpaper beach
Journeying seabound...
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Categories:
seabound, adventure, nature, sea
Form: Haiku