Summon Poems

Not everyone is on the right side; 
Not often the one who speaks can summon the tongue,
From using it for the good of others;
As the rising of the sun sets,
The state of beauty, 
And the presence of nature’s as it...Read More

I am one of nature’s most grand masterpieces
Forget the anti-ageing pills and the maquillage
All you need are my fleeting wrinkles on your pretty face 
And you are good to go

I am without a price-tag
I do not belong to anyone but...Read More

Here 
we are, my fellow humans,
fighting for our lives
struggling to overcome an 
unseen enemy.

All over 
the world his presence is felt, as has
brought with him, agony,tears and pain.

China, Italy, Spain, Iran, are hard hit
and many more countries are waiting 
their...Read More

When I am broke
I write a poem
I make myself the hero
In my poem, nobody can stop me
Out, I hop from my S-Class Benz 
Into my waiting Lamborgini to my private airstrip
That car is sleek and comfy, one in a million
My...Read More

I love to wander
amongst meadows and fields,
the sky's like blue satin
the lake's like a sheet.
The air's pleasantly cool,
as birds chirp and glide
and crickets, as is their wont
invent an orchestral chant.

There in a bower
two young lovers meet,
their arms are entwined
in a...Read More

Swinging along singing a song
Was a lass wearing a pale blue-bonnet
It was a beautiful day, the month of May
Her bonnet had flowers on it
The flowers were pretty it was a pity
The girl was on her ownsome
She didn't mind she wasn't...Read More

Hymn to Aphrodite
by Sappho
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

Immortal Aphrodite, throned in splendor!
Wile-weaving daughter of Zeus, enchantress, and beguiler!
I implore you, dread mistress, discipline me no longer
with love's anguish!

But come to me once again in kindness,
heeding my prayers as you...Read More

I'm convinced my eyelids are
more dense than black holes
Oh Hercules! Oh Samson! 
Summon your might that I
might see once again through
the dark and despair of
this world I'm living in
Another morning
another forecast of foggy skies
with no clear vision in sight
Oh Lord!...Read More

Alfred Lord Tennyson: First Love Regret

Deep as first love, and wild with all regret;
Be rustic, shapeless and albeit day,
Our light had glowed the daylight to shadows,
What gleamed in the day was swapped by the night,
First love 'tis gone, for 'twas...Read More

she described her work as creating creatures
using her efforts to summon the greatest fear
of people
she wanted her audience to believe her
and she wrote with an effort to
envision the deepest and darkest
feeling of fear and loneliness
the author paints the canvas
so that...Read More

Piercing silence with a smile
       a smile so wide it tempts the trees
              to bow to early morning breeze

  ...Read More

Do you remember the first heartbeat,
can you feel the fire echo
upon the wings of your violet velvet intellect
as zero zimmers into the sums of your senses,
a spectrum of semi precious salts
hums to the success of your dramatics
while Destiny demands your...Read More

We go to the Golden Palace:
We set out the jade cups.
We summon the honored guests.

To enter the Golden Palace.
You enter through the Golden Gate
And go to the Golden Hall.

In the Eastern Kitchen, the meat is sliced and ready.
Roast beef and...Read More

February 4th, 1999 - two hundred
and fifty two months ago
Shana Aubrey Harris officially completed,
now ranks among status quo
lawfully, legally, legitimately in toto
twenty one orbitz around the sun - whoa!

Chronological benchmark ye did attain
plus major purchase of second automobile
(2002 Subaru Impreza)...Read More

I had a great day when I heard the good news
A matey discovered my gold on a cruise
The new pirate captain invited me back
To pick up my booty and stay with the pack

To all the dear pirates who thought I...Read More

Drowning in a sea of dark hoodies and unbrushed hair,
My mind turns dark, a cloud forms and haunts me,
Two sides of my brain desperate to escape my embodiment of sadness,
The bird in the cage known as my mind just wants...Read More

"Tread Softly because you tread on my dreams" (William Butler Yeats)

Allow me to shout in ancient ruins
Light up the abracadabra of existence
Let the pyramids heed my silent words
And unravel the tales of time

To uncover the hidden myth
How the lizards dance...Read More

I swing into action
Armed with wine 
The spirit willing, really for anything
Watch the Drama

Fire in my eye, dry throat, cracking lip
I stammer a little, with Socratic confidence 
I am stinking of words, ammunition from hell
Most haunting jargon, charging and burning
Listen,...Read More

I summon Genie from Aladdin's lamp
Requesting he fulfill his wishes three -
I think of children (eyes becoming damp),
Wish 1: please Genie, end their poverty.

Then, contemplating nations still at war
With all the devastation they entail,
Wish 2: please end the conflicts we...Read More

Pall Revere was renouned four his audacious mid-knight Ryde,

End alsow fore his silversmithin', inn witch he took grate pried!

Butt he is most famed four ridin' like a bat outta ewe no where,

Two alert Hancock, Adams, et al, fore there lives...Read More

If I am Syrian, what of it?
Stranger, we all dwell in one world, not its portals.
The same original Chaos gave birth to all mortals.
—Meleager translation by Michael R. Burch

Love, how can I call on you;
does Desire dwell with the dead?
Cupid,...Read More

Little bits of bitterness
is trying to hold on;
This time 
Time is teaching ,
the Art of withdrawn.

In panic; the pain
The sunshine to the droplets of rain
They say it will come,
Eventually through Time .
Even The black thundering nights have blue sky
Hidden behind.

It...Read More

My eyes pierce between the veil
The purpose of my existence finally being revealed
I don't pray for the cheddar or the paper
Just ask that God reveals his latest caper
Father of it all, master magician
Sovereign power, His Word is spoken
Living his life...Read More

A memory is a marvellous thing,
It can summon a friend from afar,
and always make my childhood come to life.
It can make me sing and laugh, or even make me cry,
When I think how much my memory misses you.


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With brazen face 'fore You I stand
To plead for Mercy from Your Hand
I'm meritless and don't deserve
The chance to sing Your Praise and serve

In deeds so poor, in thoughts so vain
My self-examinations pained
How can I summon up such nerve? --
The...Read More