Dream Swan Poems

              Lovely white angels
      whispered next to...

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The watery sun lifts up in the sky,
Water gently glimmers with small breeze formed waves,
Birds start to twitter as they get ready to fly,
Animals start...

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Would you like to dance my little ballerina?
She dances and dances,
no leotard, no tutu, no hair ribbon, and no ballet slippers.
she spins with hands over...

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Pure as she is, sweet as she is
The beauteous Portia of my dream
With her anchor of roses
Conceived by her body of harmony.
The velvety of her...

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I saw you …

high …
atop the promontory
spinning with manic madness
pirouettes et fouetté
lost in yourself -
in movement …
your upper back split, low
and, I swear -
feathers …...

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Swan song

Play of life an act,
so why then react
to what’s manifest,
as an earth life test?

We’re in deep trance,
thus our ignorance
veils light of our soul,
that’s joyful...

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Vows were spoken, promises made
The words seemed so sincere, 
but slowly through the years
The love turned into tears

We had it all here in our hands...

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Ali's Song
by Michael R. Burch
for Muhammad Ali

They say that gold don’t tarnish. It ain’t so.
They say it has a wild, unearthly glow.
A man can be...

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Swan song
Amazing, surprising
Splashing, displaying, underwhelming
Sometimes I'd dream about foreshadowing
Possession concert


6/23/19

Swan song - A Didactic Cinquain
by James Edward Lee Sr.©2019...

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Out 
of the darkness

star-lanterns’ beam finds an awakening dream - 
a strewn snowy stream 
gracing the depths of the black swan night


Earthbound

from the realm of...

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When scuba diving in Iceland need to wear long johns
Under your wet suit, at 32F, you'll never see swans
They tried wearing sweaters
Now they know better
Otherwise,...

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~ The Swan King ~
 (Key To My Heart) 





 Dream 
 Within 
 A dream 
 Breathless 
 Symphony 
 Castle********Of dreams 
 Romantic...

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one in twain yet marked on a blotted page clearly intact through the surface
crimes of passion stirring inside my brutal egg shelled head summon the...

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The Swan

As I mused on this sunshine day,
So cold, too cold I hear “The Swan,”
And I am taken on a lakeside dream,
Of swans dipping, swans...

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Day Time

Dingy, pale bedroom flat becomes
All to clear in focus displaying
The dragon residue and empty
Bottles of past woes.  Supple body
Posed, framed with blankets, shudders,
Moves,contemplates...

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