Beach Teenage Poems

I'm okay, 
you're okay is a mask in the land of pretend.
Children say what they feel,
their honestly can bubble over.
Little ones have not learned words...

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Many years ago,
girls wore girdles.
The tight uncomfortable things,
they held one in tight.
One summer's night,
I snuck my girlfriend out.
We were off on a double date,
a night...

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This worm is proud to be green,                  ...

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There's an innocent time that I recall
  when every girl is Cinderella at a bobby-sox ball
each guy, a penny-loafer prince in a white letter...

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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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Along the beach the youthful surfers gather
To survey the breakers pounding the coral reef
In the late morning hours before the crowds arrive.

Then one by one,...

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In his green anorak
With a red bobble hat
He was sat in the midday sun
He was looking so glum
Our dear teenage son
Such a look on his...

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Jimmy went to Spain back in 84
With some of his school pupils
It was a week and cost 149
A couple of teachers went along
To keep any...

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Eyes as blue as the cloudless sky,
Hair as dark as a starless night,
Jaw as sharp as a shining blade,
And face as smooth as the wet...

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Blue is the ring around my boyfriends eyes 
when the light hits them.
Blue is the weird color I never used in kindergarten,
because I thought it...

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I don't even know
how I feel about you.
Being around you is like laying in the snow
with my skin turning blue.

You've changed with the seasons
for no...

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You took my hand
Then my heart
And broke it.

Tears, washed clean
The yellow brick road
I paved for you;
and the bright sun
Cried golden droplets
Onto the dew

Endless footprints
Carved beneath...

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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

A large Turtle sits on a beach watching the light reflecting off the sea
This Turtle swims in the ocean and sometimes he...

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I wake on the sand
Right near the beach
You have yet to awake
Far out of reach
And Daybreak has arrived
A beauty unlike any other
Comparable only to us,...

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~ Punished~
                       ...

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