Sonnet Silver Poems

"One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life. The word is love." Sophocles, Greek Poet 

How is the tender word love...

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I am now "away from the noise,"  
my fruit gum I am chewing.  
Sitting here wondering what the boys,  
could be doing.  

 
 
Now all unpacked,  
a book I...

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My many many thoughts linger, 
in the dusting of the springtime, 
I turn pages with my finger, 
I love to read each loving rhyme. 

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Spring is the time to venture out and play
the pretty flowers are wearing the bees
maybe it is bright and sunny all day
early morning may come...

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SILVER-LINING

Cheated life occasionally yet it couldn't play even. 
In life's sequel, I'm swivelled into a deep sweven.

Where's conventionality in a cosmos that's so odd? 
Everyone...

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The old rusty gate                                         ...

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Why I am me,                                           ...

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What hurt filled words did you convey,                              What in the world...

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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 flooding with water;
the small, broken...

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A Precious Jewel was found
Just laying around
Sparkling in the sea
near the rocks, one flees
time in the wind
the blowing sand
a storm passes by
the winds were so...

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Silver Sheaths And Gems Are Not Listed Needs

Promise not, which hand and mind can not deliver
silver sheaths and gems are not listed needs.
This world and...

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No gold nor silver, weights my needy purse
Spun silk and finery I have no need
Such poverty of wealth be not God's curse
For bless'd the man...

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NO SILVER TIP
She cries among the dead she's come to know
her holy grail, beneath Champs Elysees, 
acknowledging no one can come or go
without her word,...

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June 01, 2008

 

Silver Spoons
 
 

The disruption and the dismay left my will fray.

Corrupted and disillusioned are the eyes that see.

Bottled up and distilled...

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No words can blunt the pain of a broken heart
Though dulcet melodies may soothe it for a while
Much more than tears dost thou impart
With time...

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