Child Teen Love Poems

The beautiful times of the past,
Which faded away so fast.
My school days,
Were cheerful in so many ways.

I miss those fine hours,
When I was bestowed with...

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EARLY POEMS XXI - JUVENILIA

Dance With Me
by Michael R. Burch

(circa age 18)

Dance with me
to the fiddles’ plaintive harmonies.
Enchantingly,
each highstrung string,
each yearning key,
each a thread within...

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A governess, a guardian of the young, so known and dear as to be called “Mother” and a noblewoman, just barely 12 by age, named...

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What a lonely, peculiar, eccentric figure i must be. A girl, in a garden, crying at an iPad, in the dark. 

Earlier, at school... 

It...

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What I want is someone to love,
and for someone to somehow love me.
Not right now and not tomorrow...
but some day - eventually.
I’m still a child,...

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(a story in 4 Senryus)

Dew gently pools on
the rich green Bermuda blades
of suburban lawns.

Walking across grass
soaks your shoes like a splashing 
child in a puddle.

Your...

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Step Into Starlight
by Michael R. Burch 
 
Step into starlight,
lovely and wild,
lonely and longing,
a woman, a child . . .
 
Throw back drawn curtains,
enter the...

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It was a smile, simply,
that would absolve me of my virtue ...
a whiter-than-white allure of the unexplored.

Barely a teen, I was mesmerized by her sublime...

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It's a scene of blue and purple, let's start this with romance
If I sat and watched the masquerade would you ask me to dance?
The tides...

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Always dreamed of a white picket fence 
But in time you'll see
Not everything you want in life 
Comes very easily

Growing from child to teen 
You...

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Red forever stays on my rose pedal
Your image forever stays on my mind
If love were contest I’d win heart’s medal
This love fluctuates throughout course of...

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