Song Son Poems

(Lights dim, single spotlight illuminates the speaker, dressed in simple attire. Voice starts trembling, building in intensity)

Can forgiveness mend, a childhood, 
fractured in the dark?...

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it is good
and he's got imaginary games of cricket
being played in his head
he tells me the score
and what the pitch is like
in his head

in an...

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"Tom, Tom the piper's son
Stole a pig and away he run.
The pig was eat,
And Tom was beat,
And Tom went crying down the street."

Now, this rhyme,
For...

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Villanelle: Remembering Not to Call
by Michael R. Burch

(a villanelle permitting mourning, for my mother, Christine Ena Burch)

The hardest thing of all,
after telling her everything,
is remembering...

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Children's Poems III

These are poems for children and poems about children and their mothers, fathers, grandmother, grandfathers and extended families. 



Picturebook Princess
by Michael R. Burch

for...

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   Dulcimer dewdrops
 paint the leafy canvas,
hungry mouthlings bobbing 
   a rambunctious sway 
   from
clear pleasure of impact to...

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O I need Thee every hour my blessed Savior, I come unto Thee.
O I come to Thee in e'er hour of my desperation's need O...

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The Son's ministry
Is a soul's sweet song in rhymes,
For man in end times....

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Sunlight screams,
When the peace is broken
By dark, dreary things,
Like doubt and despair, poverty
Of the heart and soul,
Paucity who can never know…
Just how far you’ve had...

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Said the Palestinians
to their Israeli neighbors
singing and dancing
karaoke on the Strip

I wish I knew
how to pursue
dual citizenship
as readily
as you

To which Israelis
responded to their Muslim neighbors
dancing...

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Three states
in five hours.
Maybe we’ll stop somewhere nice
like a KOA campground.
A kid can hope. It’s hot and it would be great to go for a...

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It has been raining everyday
The wet autumnal wind is here
And Mommy Maine just left us today
Peacefully.  She just expired, dear
This Ebony Queen was a...

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I remember when I was a young boy…if I was scared
or if I was asleep and woke up with a fright…
my mom would snuggle in...

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As son of King Mussabwa
on munanila mountain was watering 
flowers in different gardens
                  Vira people were singing 
                                       Vira songs
   .                               While dancing.  

Princess Keyah...

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He embraces me with the wind’s rustling prayers,
The hush of autumn thoughts and the music
Breathing quietly on the heart of winter’s charm

He kisses away the...

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