Devotion Teen Poems

Within this ink is a taste so bitter
Warn you though I am no quitter
I don't follow fake pomp and glitter
Find within me a devotion emitter
The...

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Each thought to touch each other
the earliest possible crossed us;
we were close but no total strangers:
we were friends avoiding an affair.

Who has ever said we...

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Anticipation 
nights spent alone
miming our conversation
just in case you phone
declare fathomless devotion
no reason to postpone 
claim this heart's commotion 
let your love be known







...

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They see an older woman seated awkwardly at the grave,
brushing debris from the sun-warmed stone,
clumsily shifting her weight in the heat -
alone. 

They don't see...

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“I love you.” he said, his voice raspy and emotional. 

“You..?” I asked softly, and he nodded yes, slowly.

I kind of moved him away a...

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Juvenilia: Early Poems XII

Because You Came to Me
by Michael R. Burch

for Beth

Because you came to me with sweet compassion
and kissed my furrowed brow and smoothed...

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Love is something that has always been undefined,
In the initial stage, it is only in the heart where it is confined.

Gradually, it finds space in...

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"Invigoration by infatuation"

She found me at my lowest point!
I was down and out had no mattress on the floor, no food. It was begging and...

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Flower

I'm saying flower
I love you even if it hurt
Sometimes in God's head
Or sometimes on foot
again in your bed
Still I’m blowing in your yard.

I'm saying flower
No...

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Four hang ups, no messages left.
Bereft of those moments near the phone,
a lonely heart could only hope it was you
who called while I was required...

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infatuation
lovely like a tsunami
drowned me just as fast...

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You are worth it

When you apologize I always say you are worth it 
I have said those words so many times that they are losing...

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Last night, I had a dream.
A dream of you and I.
You were gorgeous and shy,
While I was loving and kind.

We watched a play and had...

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I still look at you the same way I did from day one.
And I'll admit it again and again
That through thick and thin, through the...

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Homeward, on an hungry belly
En-route a quick long trek, perhaps
It’s the hard day-after-day norm
And the poor little boy is mind-full
He deserves some respite– 
and even...

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