Searchlights Poems - Poems about Searchlights

...all the stuff going on that motel was heating up but the locksmith didn't speak Irish too well & besides he got drunk & robbed the wrong merry-go-round anyway... Sigh Banal as it might seem, it's ......Read the rest...

...The sun caught you by surprise reflecting your radiance, with its thousands of eyes, searchlights of the day, right when I grabbed you out of the blue gymnasium of the sea as it revealed your ......Read the rest...

...Darkness lurks furtive in shadows That scan the daylight hours Like searchlights looking for A place like a cave, an umbrella or hole, In which to seep, gloat and ponder Upon the coming of the n......Read the rest...

...They wait in the night-lit brightness. I watch them from an over-magnified telescope; youngsters and older some dripping a scent of latent maturity, a furtive effort to blend and not offend the ......Read the rest...

...An uneasy truce hovers in the air combatants tense, no soldier dares to catch a minute's sleep the price of that, far too steep Minutes pass, they feel like hours searchlight......Read the rest...

...Pride negatory Better to share His glory God writes your story Special kind of gain We can only learn through pain God may not explain Treasure has a source Wisdom is treasure, of course ......Read the rest...

...Black and White, no shades of grey, How I remember my early days. I felt so safe and secure, With my family always near. War started when I was two, People stuck together as if by glue. Everyon......Read the rest...

...MODERN SONNETS I I prefer the original definition of the sonnet as a “little song” of indeterminate form and length. These modern sonnets vary from more-or-less traditional to free verse. Mak......Read the rest...

...Starlight and Moonlight II These are poems about starlight and moonlight, moons and stars, dreams and visions, illuminations and intimations … Deliver Us... by Michael R. Burch for m......Read the rest...

...LOVE POEMS IV by Michael R. Burch These are love poems by Michael R. Burch: original poems and translations about love, passion, desire, lust, sex, dating, romance, relationships and marriage. ......Read the rest...

...The astral plane above knew no division of east and west, No barbed-wire border pierced its vast expanse. The sentry reverted his gaze swiftly back to base, His visage firmly fixed in the dark sha......Read the rest...

...Heat Lightening by Michael R. Burch Each night beneath the elms, we never knew which lights beyond dark hills might stall, advance, then lurch into strange headbeams tilted up like searchlight......Read the rest...

...Sonnets XCVIII-CII Willy Nilly by Michael R. Burch for the Demiurge aka Yahweh/Jehovah Isn’t it silly, Willy Nilly? You made the stallion, you made the filly, and now they sleep in the......Read the rest...

...Sonnets XLII-LI Distances by Michael R. Burch Moonbeams on water? the reflected light of a halcyon star now drowning in night... So your memories are. Footprints on beaches now floodin......Read the rest...

...The Tender Weight of Her Sighs by Michael R. Burch The tender weight of her sighs lies heavily upon my heart; apart from her, full of doubt, without her presence to revolve around, found want......Read the rest...