Grandmother 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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Juvenilia: Early Poems XIII

Davenport Tomorrow
by Michael R. Burch

Davenport tomorrow ...
all the trees stand stark-naked in the sun.

Now it is always summer
and the bees buzz in...

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"HETTIE'S CONVOLUTED CONTENT"


the main character was in 
a relationship with a woman in 
the movie we were watching.
the girlfriend of that same 
man went out...

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Blue.
The color of the sky with
no clouds to dull it
Blue.
The robin's egg in the spring.
Blue.
The way the water looks
in the ocean.
Blue.
Like your gorgeous
eyes outlined with...

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If I Could Have Gotten Your Embryo
Before You Were Born
I Would Have Sheltered You Safely
and Protected Your Form ...

I'd Have Put You In My Womb
&...

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You women
Know how to make 
The best of what you've got in you
You do it everyday in your life...

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We have been together
treasured joy now for many years
we trust each other with our
emotions, with affection, tears,

Any day when you are sick or hurting
I feel...

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~Born In The Slums.~


She was born in the slums 
sixty three years ago
by a mother out of wedlock 
delivered her all alone
In an empty dirty...

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