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Interlude - Not for Contest

..."I give you life eternal. Everlasting love. The power of the storm, and the beasts of the earth. Walk with me to be my loving wife forever" Bram Stoker


Time has come for us to slow the pace.
  ...

Winter on the Old Homestead

...

Three kids to a bed, two beds to a room, three 
rooms crowded with flannel long johns and wool 
socks. If I was lucky enough maybe they had only 
been worn by two or three brothers before me. ...

Something To Get Your Teeth Into

...YOU HAVE HEARD OF THE WRITER, BRAM STOKER,
HE WROTE ABOUT KILLING, WAS NO JOKER.
HE WOULD GO OUT EVERY NIGHT,
FOR SOME FOOD AND A QUICK BITE.
THEN TAKE SOMEONE HOME JUST, TO POKE HER.

10 10 7 ...

Acknowledgements

...1.    John Desmond Patrick Keegan
2.    Alfred, Lord Tennyson 
3.    Sally Aline Mae Beller
4.    Charles Edward A. Berry
5.    Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce 
6.    Béla Ferenc Dezso Blaskó
7.    Joh...

Poems About Poets Iv

...Poems about Poets IV



The Princess and the Pauper
by Michael R. Burch

for June Kraeft

Here was a woman bright, intent on life,
who did not flinch from Death, but caught his eye
and dre...

Wait For the Shake

...It's time to clear the highway wrecks
 for the route my parade will take.
I ain't some dead dino,
  I am Tyrant Rex, always on the make.
No more instinct t'extinction,
 listen to "Zarathustra Th...

Pounding of the Hammer

...“I am the monster that breathing men would kill. I am Dracula.”

                                                                Bram Stoker


The successive pounding of the hammer...

Devil Hell Punishment

...The devil's work shall not be
put off till tomorrow

So en-charges many minions
to do his bidding for him

But just who is the charming fella

A shoulder in the shadows

Stoker of the fire ...

Sonnets Lxxi-Lxxx

...Sonnets LXXI-LXXX

Because You Came to Me
by Michael R. Burch

Because you came to me with sweet compassion
and kissed my furrowed brow and smoothed my hair,
I do not love you after any fashio...

Various Heresies 5

...Various Heresies 5

Tonight, Let's Remember
by Michael R. Burch

July 7,2007 (7-7-7)

Tonight, let's remember the fond ways
our fingers engendered new methods to praise
the gray at my temple...

Caedmon's Face

...Caedmon’s Face
by Michael R. Burch

At the monastery of Whitby,
on a day when the sun sank through the sea,
and the gulls shrieked wildly, jubilant, free,

while the wind and Time blew all aro...

Caedmon's Hymn

...Caedmon's Hymn
by Michael R. Burch

At the monastery of Whitby,
on a day when the sun sank through the sea,
and the gulls shrieked wildly, jubilant, free,

while the wind and time blew all aro...

At Caedmon's Grave

...At Cædmon’s Grave
At Caedmon's Grave
by Michael R. Burch

“Cædmon’s Hymn,” composed at the Monastery of Whitby (a North Yorkshire fishing village), is one of the oldest known poems written in the...

Who Will Be Great - I

...If you look at ol’ Bram Stoker,
Irish writer of Dracula fame,
it can be quite hard to believe
that any remember his name.
At first just a civil servant,
then he managed a London stage,
doing bo...

Where Does the Butterfly Go

...Where Does the Butterfly Go?
by Michael R. Burch

for the children of the Holocaust and the Nakba

Where does the butterfly go
when lightning rails,
when thunder howls,
when hailstones...

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