Suggests Poems

Not the same

The result is another poem unlike the one
I wrote in my head.
The poem that has another conclusion
this because the inner voice changed my opinion.
I try the Grammarly that informs about passive
the sentence, well it was meant to be...Read More

A walk for pleasure
Through the fields, I drag along,
Watching rabbits here and there
Procreating as nature suggests.

By an old oak tree, I stop
I rest my feet by sitting down
From my jacket pocket a cookie I pick,
Biting it as I listen to...Read More

I empty my basket at the counter.

Six individual cans of strong imported beer.
A plastic bottle of ’Tums’ antacids.
A box of frozen French Bread Pizza.
A jar of jalapeno peppers.

The wiry cute middle-aged blond
checks the items, then checks me out.
I flash my...Read More

Unpopular is the truth to speak
it ain't vogue to be correct in manners
when tantrums have only one side in an invalid opinion
Let us cross the iced wasteland suffering fools
where frozen subjects refuse to obey natural law
certain agendas have a one...Read More

Oh, what a lovely picture from the past that                               ...Read More

Monet had his garden to paint,
Water lilies and a bridge so quaint

So many times he swiped his brush,
To capture the flowers and mistle thrush

Soothing pastels and budded greens,
So content, each day for him seemed

 Never tiring of his view,
Suggests it...Read More

Unless pastors accept the Bible as perfect & complete, they are likely not Bible-Christians.Yet, the hardest challenge for my faith in the Bible is the Book of Proverbs. We are not listing proverbs we learned in school like, “birds of...Read More

stealing my thoughts suggests they were not sufficiently original

December 27 2019
"Thoughts Thief"
Sponsor: Bobby May...Read More

But songs are a musical story.

I know a difference
between  telling a story
and voicing these same lyrics
of anxiety and ease,
of bearing and healing injustices,
medicine for well-earned peace.

I feel a difference
between progressive story telling,
between historically accurate autobiography,
and singing cultural passion narratives,
felt...Read More

"Thy Kingdom come, Thy will be done," I began to sing during three weeks of prayer from 9 in the morning till 5, a full "work" day. I challenged my church, If you want the LORD to be with you...Read More

Certain cuts of meat are wrongly named
by the meat industry and isn’t at all ashamed.
Pork butt doesn’t come from a pig’s butt
as it suggests but rather is the upper cut
found in the animal’s front shoulder
and clearly an assinine misnomer.
...Read More

Pool's Prince Charming
by Michael R. Burch

this is my tribute to the legendary pool shark "Saint Louie" Louie Roberts

Louie, Louie, Prince of Pool,
making all the ladies drool ...
Take the “nuts”? I'd be a fool!
Louie, Louie, Prince of Pool.

Louie, Louie, pretty as...Read More

What but ‘warmth’ speaks of ‘love’ to a child, to the aged,
Warmth all poems convey (that get launched from tome’s heart?)
I pray love gets displayed, found in stranger filled room
That you aren’t fishing for when it leaps (getting caught
In sun’s...Read More

Living for the Lord means
I can’t always have my own way
Doing things that can destroy me
With the sin that I want to forget
Forgive and move on to the present

Living for the Lord means
I put all my trust in Jesus Christ
Without...Read More

Ah, life has its rainbows that grace Sleep's respite -
The lover's smile, limb that draws warmth with deft touch!
Is impact a slave to a force that's perceived
Or peace found that subjects nocturnal breath's laps
Which grace on my waking the shore...Read More

The piles of pills and magazines
Amid Kleenex boxes and paraffin’s.
Bring a crazy look to the house of the queens.

Queen of clutter retaining her piles 
Queen of hoarding tries on different smiles
Queen of procrastination putting on miles.

Let’s clean this place up...Read More

Clearing Out Old Growth
 
Last week I cleared some old growth, ‘parting’ (1) planted in my yard,
An Avocado tree you’d grown from ‘pit’ of eaten fruit.
Tree’s color for your living space! But pots do limit roots
(Which leads to stunted growth)...Read More

Good ideas go unrecognised 
they hear your words and roll their eyes
some will mock laugh and cry
seeing squarely blind to wide

failed perspective 
blind too the big context
opinions subjective 
forget their disrespect 

Some people only follow trends
don’t know good til told...Read More

To pause and ponder on what could have been
And visit, a time of love, not distort
To change its outcome of judgment turned in 
And seek a new trial in my heart's court
Yesterday's embers have grown dimmer now
The evidence suggests nothing...Read More

Left:  
What I have been suggesting...

Right: 
You may call your reasoning "suggestion"
but that makes your voice no less urgent,
intrusive,
explicit as an analogy
suggests metaphoric interdependence.

Left: 
What I might support--
We all live in and on double-binding Earth
double-binary mindscaped
and body-acting
motion suffering and...Read More

“Make a Sad Song Better”?

It sounds good at first glance but then who do you serve?
To solve other folks ‘problems’ suggests more than nerve!
Do you dream that your wisdom groks nightmares afar,
Your discernments shed light (or trap fireflies in jars?)

Still,...Read More

So sadly now, these arms of mine, not finding you at all
Imagine Grace to be in doubt, that love is just on call
 
For fools who've never felt LOVE'S pain, known Flood from Heaven's rain!
 
The Painter's muted palette seems...Read More

Having been on my own 
for the past ten years 
I suppose I am set in my ways
If I’ve no planned routine
at the start of each day
I just come and I go as I may

Awaking each morn just before dawn
I...Read More

I really do believe so.
When one candidate suggests
we eat dead bodies?
I have heard not one hue and cry!

How about Uncle Timothy?
Aunt Daphne might be delish.
Humanburgers  will replace
hamburgers.

But no, we squeal like piglets,
over plastic bags and straws.
While gnawing on our beloved...Read More

I am at one with myself
I am the tree trunk that grows from the ground
As the branches and twigs move when the wind blows
I myself remain robust

Extentions of my life break off and die
Or just exist to practice irrelevance
Accepting I...Read More