Summer Teen Love Poems

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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oh such sweet love I never knew
      that summer weaved in 'forty-two
        ...

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First star I see tonight
I wish I may, I wish I might
Be visited by beautiful sprite
My mist-laden dreams to light

A smile like a summer day
A...

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We had the colorful glasses of teenage on our eyes
And my favorite color was love,
Because of our childishness, we told so many "Lies in April"
We...

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Walk your baby bye
Drive your woodie to the sea
Walk in hands together 
Pledge a love forever more
Reel in summer sunset dreams...

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Summertime soundtrack
cause we ended as lovers
kaleidoscope jam
we danced in paradise lost
my September bridge of sighs...

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Airy Wells and Emmett Street were working class kids,
Just shy of a high school diploma.
Airy’s mom had a habit of drinking too much.
Emmett’s father was...

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My mind traveled back in time like it often does when I visit our hometown
Like the many times before, I drove down your street today...

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She was just a regular girl
Not different or unlike any other
But lived in a fairytale world
And dreamed like no other.
 
She set herself faithfully apart
Unavailable...

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(A flash fiction piece)

Breathless summer heat retreats with the sun. People come out after dusk - like nocturnal animals. We’re hunting ice-cream, at a carnival-painted...

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A time for us when we were young,                 ...

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We came together to look out from 
our respective balconies
He lived in the opposite house from me
This went on all summer, I felt all warm...

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The day is new and not yet lost to summer heat.
Flowers blush and preen in morning breezes.
Let me whisper fears before the day consumes you
My...

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Dropping a few coins in the glossy nickel slot
They hung out together at a small-town cafe
Listening to popular songs on a flashy jukebox
Savoring salty fries...

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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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