Sonnet Sweet Poems

"One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life. The word is love." Sophocles, Greek Poet 

How is the tender word love...

Read More

These are poems about sinking, poems about drowning, poems about loss, and poems about new discoveries we sometimes make while feeling lost...



Sinking
by Michael R. Burch

for...

Read More

Dew, to Dawn, to Dusk, to Dust: (pause)
A sacred cycle turns, while love endures.

At dawn's first light, beside you,
Where my soul finds peace and rest,
In...

Read More

Alas, sweet Muse! How I desire, and burn,
     to sing a joyous hymn no less, no worse,
    ...

Read More

Old Mountain tales of love spin 'neath dawn's blush,
Elderberries, purple ink drop pearls, drawing me nigh.
Ah! Her laughter, a honeybee’s dance in summer’s rush,
Ignites my...

Read More

I felt a rush when I looked in her eyes, but was unaware of it’s true meaning 

Her thought sends shivers down my spine, I...

Read More

As I lie on my bed reading my book
My MIND WONDERED TO A LOOK AND A SMILE
STARING at me. I turn to cry awhile.
I could...

Read More

I am now "away from the noise,"  
my fruit gum I am chewing.  
Sitting here wondering what the boys,  
could be doing.  

 
 
Now all unpacked,  
a book I...

Read More

I will explain why I should be your wife.
I can be your daily dose of sunshine. 
Cuz you will be the reason for my life.
All...

Read More

She That With A Sweet-Laid Kiss Captured My Heart

She a true angel yet forever incomplete
Yes, forever and a thousand years in a day
But her heaven...

Read More

Honey-Child That Sweet-Spun Gift, You Don't Want To Miss

She cried, "Please write a sonnet that bites my butt"
Dear poet, I give you whiskey, my mouth...

Read More

My Sarah is a Sweetness undescribed 
Surpassing words and making the Sun Shine! 
Her Beauty is a wine I have imbibed 
That makes me drunk...

Read More

In distant realms where love's elusive gleams, 
I search for traces of what once was true.
A love untamed, lost in forgotten dreams, 
A flame once...

Read More

Beneath thy eyes lay a sweet loving soul;
To it, the weak and strong of hearts attract;
A queen thou art seeking not finest gold,
But for gold...

Read More

My many many thoughts linger, 
in the dusting of the springtime, 
I turn pages with my finger, 
I love to read each loving rhyme. 

...

Read More