Water Separation Poems

Sometimes
When we have a loving relationship
Life gets in the way
The pressures of work money worries
Piles of unpaid bills
Not enough time for each other
The relationship erodes...

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Having nightmares, working from home?
Or being bolted inside four walls for days
Catch up on reading, fiction and writing 
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Poems about Things that Break I
 
These are poems about things that break and/or shatter: a bubble, glass, a mirror, a twig or tree limb,...

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In my country, gangs of fiends own the night.
In my country, we lived broken lives of torment.
My family fled with little but our naked terror.
Bleeding...

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No Mark
by Michael R. Burch

A wave implodes, 
impaled upon
impassive rocks...

this evening
the thunder of the sea
is a wild music filling my ear...

you are leaving
and the ungrieving
winds...

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Snapshots
by Michael R. Burch

Here I scrawl extravagant rainbows.
And there you go, skipping your way to school.
And here we are, drifting apart
like untethered balloons.

Here I am,...

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Water and Gold
by Michael R. Burch

You came to me as rain breaks on the desert
when every flower springs to life at once,
but joy's a wan...

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What, if any, shall my love be; if tho is not there in the meadow of our season? Will our love wilt as flowers do...

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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 flooding with water;
the...

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This cherished wound in my heart is your parting gift
I nurse, nurture and care for it
The hurt makes me remember the cherished bygone days
The days...

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As unshaped as water, as filthy as streets, as hard as rocks:-
The separation we create
I remember our memories, I turn in pride 
I remember the...

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The spur I was separated,
From my beloved
I was all alone
Useless it is to be born.

Where shall I go?
My life to whom I owe?
My thoughts crystallized
My...

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